Glasgow’s colloquialisms enrich life here in a way which probably isn’t matched by any other city in the UK. Being ‘sick to the back teeth’ is not a dental problem. Likewise ‘I’m going give you a piece of my mind’ is not an offer of a surgical transplant. ‘Ragin’ is nothing to do with a river in torrent. That’s just so you know I’m ragin’ with BBC Scotland. Ragin’.

Last Tuesday I sat down to watch the hour-long BBC documentary on Sighthill - one of the city’s most blighted schemes which is now on the road to renaissance. It became an hour of my life which I can never get back.

There was justification for great expectations. The people of Sighthill have fought long and hard for a new future, refused to accept second best and now their reward is literally being built before their eyes.

Sighthill is the largest of Glasgow’s Regeneration areas. £250 million is being spent to deliver a transformation. Some 150 new back and front door houses have already been built as part of the plan to build 800. There’s a new community campus planned with a nursery, community school and community centre. There are new jobs coming to area along with a visionary parkland complex and revolutionary ways of creating public spaces. The old multi-storeys are all gone.

So what did we get from BBC Scotland? Not a jot of any of that. Nothing of hope and aspiration instead what we got was a montage of despair and disillusion. The central character in the entire programme was a young man with many personal problems. The question needs to be asked about why the BBC choose to feature such a troubled young man so prominently in the film.

The rest of the film concentrated on a large family of well turned-out kids. We got a portrait of some of their unruly behaviour and nothing in any way positive about the family. And they were complemented by an older resident who looked like a victim of abject poverty who’d given up taking care of himself. Those familiar with Glasgow will have noted that the film-makers didn’t even know the boundaries of the scheme because much of it was shot outside it.

Now don’t take this as a demand that Glasgow ought to be filmed by editors permanently wearing rose-tinted glasses. We cannot deny the poverty and deprivation that haunts huge areas of our city. A third of the kids in Glasgow are being brought up in households that live below or precariously near the poverty line. That is a terrible indictment.

But it is the BBC big wigs who are always telling us how sacred balance is in

its news and documentaries. That’s my point - ‘Sighthill’ was a film without hope in the very circumstances where a vast amount of the people who live there now have tangible hope of a better life.

This week my office has been deluged with complaints about the lack of fairness in the film. If you want to get the real story about those who are building the new Sighthill go to the council website - www.glasgow.gov.uk - and search for ‘Sighthill Videos’.

The true story of hope is there. That’s in contrast to the pre-conceptions many BBC Scotland editors seem to have about how the people of Glasgow’s housing schemes live. Ragin’ isn’t in it. I was actually angrier than that.

At the end of the last week I got my passport out and went to Edinburgh. I was heading up a delegation of the council, the Chamber of Commerce and the Glasgow Economic Leadership team to present our Brexit document to the Scottish Minister for Brexit, Mike Russell MSP.

One of the central demands of our Brexit report is that the Scottish Government should help Glasgow to overcome the perils of Brexit by bringing forward spending on major infrastructure projects, instead of keeping to current timescales which were created long before Brexit.

The Minister was sympathetic to that call and has offered to broker further meetings with those in charge of such projects. In turn we agreed that Scotland needs a Brexit settlement that guarantees as close an involvement in the European single market as possible. Right now access to the single market delivers tens of thousands of jobs in Glasgow. Brexit cannot be allowed to jeopardise that.