Anyway, as someone born in London, brought up in Wales (and elsewhere) and now living in Scotland for the past 16 years, I’ve encountered a fair amount of rabid anti-English discrimination. Not personally mind, as I (now) have a fairly ambiguous Edinburghesque accent, so people often presume that I’m Scottish: this is where I hear the bigotry first hand, as from one Scot to another “Scot”. Not only is it disgusting, but more often than not it’s completely vacuous and for the most pathetic of reasons: “tradition”.

I tend not to remain in their company for very long, although I occasionally like to make that point before departing (if their not too rabid and without a reputation for violence) that I’m not a fellow Scot with the same bigoted outlook.