Glasgow riots: Huge fights break out at protest as hundreds clash in bitter unity feuds

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4. Correct. Such marches are constant flashpoints, but far more often the Orange Marches.

Coupled and allied to certain football team loyalties, often related to the remnants of sectarianism, if you mix in the current upheavals, it's a potentially explosive mix, but it's not new or, unfortunately, "beginning".

The ugliest scenes we've had in Scotland related to politics in recent times were on the night and day after the independence referendum, when "loyalist" union flag-wielding thugs, many imported from England for the occasion, rioted in Glasgow's George Square and had running battles with the police and anyone else who got in their way in the streets around it.

It has to pointed out that many among the teams' supporters are revolted and angered by the fringe that get all the publicity - it's not monolithic.