Is there an internet clip or a scene from a television show that plays rent-free in your head? Mine is the door scene from the first-ever episode of Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave.

A self-conscious prospective employee, riddled with nervous shame after sitting through a job interview in the middle of a busy café, thanks the interviewer and gets up to leave. The glass door clatters as he pulls to open it. “Ah, looks like you push,” the suited interviewer says with a cheesy grin.

“Oh, you know, it does both,” Tim Robinson’s awkward interviewee replies. “It does both. I was here yesterday, and it actually goes both ways.”

The next minute of the scene is a completely absurd descent into madness. Tense music, creaking, frontal veins bulging, sweat and spittle dripping down the man’s face as he tries to rip the door back on its hinges without breaking eye contact with his prospective boss. “See?” he shrugs, having completely destroyed the café door. “I hope to hear from you soon.”

The scene played in my head this week when I read two separate headlines from our Future of Glasgow series. “Glasgow needs a Devolution Deal like English regions,” says Aitken and “We don’t need a Metro Mayor in Glasgow says Susan Aitken”. Can it go both ways?

What is she on about, I thought. Essentially, the Glasgow City Region Deal that was signed more than a decade ago is coming to its natural close. It saw the UK and Scottish Governments chip in to fund a £1.13 billion pot to be used on infrastructure around the eight councils of the region: Glasgow City, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire,........

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