A PROMINENT Scottish author has called on Glasgow to make a public apology for its historic links with slavery in advance of its role as host of the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
During the years of the Thatcher governments the Scottish economy was transformed at a faster and more radical pace than during the classic phases of the Industrial Revolution.
HISTORIANS and anti-racist campaigners are calling on Glasgow's museums and art galleries to come clean about the cultural legacy of slavery and set up a memorial to the city's involvement in the slave trade.