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Mark Smith: Not My Scotland: what the anti-royal protesters keep getting wrong

Mark Smith: Not My Scotland: what the anti-royal protesters keep getting wrong

Up on the hill, in the sun, they lay it out straight. “People are beginning to wake up,” they say. “There’s growing momentum,” they say. “We’re beginning to realise they’re not a higher form of humanity,” they say. And in case you miss the point, they have placards and posters, all in sickly yellow, the sort they use on containers of deadly chemicals. The message is consistent, three words: Not My King.

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