ANNIVERSARIES are odd things.  

Last weekend our paper commemorated 100 years since the death of Lenin, and on January 31 we noted the passing of the 4th  anniversary of British exit from the EU — welcomed and wailed over on social media — and Glasgow’s Battle of George Square in 1919, where workers across the city rallied to demand the Lord Provost intervene in their fight for a 40-hour working week.  

The passing of 105 years hasn’t damped the enthusiasm for folk to project onto the event — not least swapping the red flag for the saltire in some pictures — as if the reality of working people taking their lives into their own hands wasn’t enough somehow.