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Street scene on Maxwell Street The centre of Glasgow still bustles. It is a city of over a million people. It was once thought of as the second most significant city in the entire British Empire. Poverty is still there and sometimes - out on the streets - you see people who have fallen off the roller-coaster of ordinary life entirely. They ask for change. They smoke cigarettes. They are thin. Their eyes dart about. Their skin is pale grey. They look out for one another in ways that the affluent and advantaged will never know. They may have pronounced limps, scars or aluminium crutches. They may have botched tattoos and they may carry cans of strong lager. I guess that some of them have drug issues and I imagine that growing up was not easy for any of them - not warm and secure with encouragement. In a sense, life has passed them by. They simply strive for survival day by day. The real "McDonalds" on Trongate Don't get me wrong - those desperate people cli...