There are many reasons to be proud of being Scottish. We’ve invented pretty much everything, including penicillin and the television, there’s nothing we won’t deep fry, and, according to new figures, we’re more progressive than the rest of Europe on matters of LGBT equality.
Look at the reaction – or rather, non-reaction – Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale received when she spoke publicly for the first time about having a female partner back in April. Dugdale’s low-key coming out in the Fabian Review made her the fourth LGB leader of a political party in Scotland after Ruth Davidson (Conservatives), Patrick Harvie (Greens) and UKIP’s David Coburn, yet the Scottish public barely raised an eyebrow.