Do you remember the moments after indyref? I remember thinking ‘yes! We won’ and was quite happy to forget about the whole thing and move on. In the coming days, I remember being confused why people I had been friends with for years were deleting me off Facebook. It wasn’t like..

I’d been rubbing anyone’s nose in it or even being political at all really so I found it a bit bizarre. In the few days after I realised the people who had voted Yes were really angry and weren’t going to accept they’d been democratically outvoted. See I was happy to move on...

but it became clear to me that the other ‘side’ wasn’t willing to do the same. All of a sudden people like me who voted No for the sake of maintaining the status quo were ‘Yoons, traitors, quislings, cap-doffers, knee-bending Britnat unionists’. I’d hardly even paid much...

attention to politics before this vote was forced upon me by the SNP, let alone considered myself as any of that. I was slowly realising that the Yes voters were extremely bitter about the whole thing. This is the danger of populism. The nationalist leaders promise things far....

beyond what can be delivered and people lap it up like puppies and really believe what they’re told. Populists tell people what they want to hear and should be shunned from politics. The whole culture of politician-worship in Scotland makes me feel nauseous. Politicians are not..

to be taken at face value, especially when they’re promising the Earth based on nationalist exceptionalism.