In the early hours of Saturday, June 16 I woke feeling inexplicably unsettled. I picked up my phone and, as a distraction, looked at Twitter. The first image I came across showed flames engulfing the Glasgow School of Art; sleepily I assumed that this was a retweet about the fire of 2014 when half the building, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, had been affected and the beautiful library destroyed. As I sat in the dark, scrolling through my timeline, I slowly realised that the photographs and comments were not related to an event from the past. At that moment in Glasgow, the flames were finishing a job started four years earlier.
When the sun rose over my home town, it revealed that the Glasgow School