STAN Grodynski’s letter on Thursday made something very clear to me: a lot of folk still don’t understand what independence actually is, or what it demands from a country. And that’s the real issue here – not criticism, not tone, but the scale of what we’re actually talking about.

Stan’s whole argument rests on the idea that the undecided need to be sheltered from honesty, as if independence is something fragile that can’t handle a sharp edge. But independence is not a fragile thing. It’s not a soft project. It is one of the biggest decisions a nation can make, and if people feel unsteady, it’s because nobody has taken them through the weight of what it actually is.

The SNP have spent years talking about independence like it’s a policy lever or an administrative upgrade. But independe

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