How SNP rot set in

News that ‘nationalistic creep’ has reached the upper echelons of the Scottish Civil Service is both revealing and worrying.

In many ways the SNP’s activities resemble the spread of dry rot through a building – slow but insidious if left untreated.

For too long those not interested in dissolving the world’s most enduring union have assumed the onslaught by a fanatical party would dissipate with time. How wrong we were.