There’s plenty in Scotland that divides us – such as football, politics and religion.

But woe betide anyone who picks unjustly on one of our own.

Especially when it’s someone who is not just innocent of any wrongdoing, but who has faced daily struggles that most of us cannot contemplate.

That’s when we come together in angry defiance and defence against those whose hypocrisy knows no bounds.

The anger felt by so many Scots at the unjust treatment suffered by Tourette’s sufferer John Davidson at and after the Baftas has united the nation.

‘Down the pecking order’

There’s a wholly justified rage at the duplicity of the film industry and many of the luvvies in it, which has been perfectly encapsulated in their disgraceful treatment of John, from the Borders town of........

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