Some of those who like to flash their liberal credentials are fond of deploying words like ‘Fascism’ and ‘bigotry’. Thus, if you are considering voting for Reform then you’re a Fascist: likewise if you were a supporter of Boris Johnson or favoured some of the No groups in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.

If you’re a Rangers supporter or a member of the Orange Order in Scotland then you most definitely qualify as Fascist. If you dare to profess your Christian faith too loudly you also risk being accused of bigotry, as Kate Forbes discovered when she ran against Humza Yousaf for the leadership of the SNP in 2022.

Among those who rushed to condemn her for belonging to a church that believes marriage is a sacrament reserved for a man and a woman was John Swinney, her SNP colleague of long standing. Yet Mr Swinney is happy to bring up his children in the Catholic tradition, having had his first marriage annulled so that he could marry again in the Catholic Church. I have questions. Doesn’t Mr Swinney know that the Catholic Church also teaches that marriage is reserved for the union of a man and a woman?

Feminists who, in the course of many decades, had fought for women’s rights, found that they too were branded Fascists and bigots because they opposed biological men gaining access to their private spaces. The five Supreme Court judges who have now clarified this position in law are also bigots, according to Holyrood’s Deputy........

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