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THE coming of Storm Ali this week brought a sense of deja vu upon me.

Moving up to Glasgow from London at the start of this year, I had been caught up in the Beast from the East — leaving me first stranded at Carlisle, then aboard an untimetabled staff special that rescued other passengers from a broken-down train just south of Glasgow, then dragging a suitcase full of books through the snow drifts, like a sledge.

I’d been intending, for my sins, to report on the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen that weekend. But the cancellation of all trains north was quickly followed by the Tories ditching their conference altogether — and I was marooned in the Gorbals.

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