i remember once vividly coming back from a family holiday from lossiemouth, my mum was from lossiemouthre when she was four years old. she lived in lossiemouth, a small seaside village in the north—east of scotland. i remember coming back and we literally entered the house, the phone rang, i picked it up and someone swearing at us saying, "good to see you're back," and the phone slammed down again. as a warning? as a warning, absolutely. so i remember that. i remember a slingshot being fired through my bathroom window and it hitting my dad on the head, having to be hospitalised. i remember all of that really vividly. as you describe it now, it is shocking, but does it feel like another world ? here we are talking, i was looking back at something you said a few years back, back in 2006, "scotland needs "an ethnic minority politician, there isn't one in scotland" is what you said. now you're not only the first asian party leader but of course there's another asian party leader in scotland, who is now the first minister, humza yousaf. we also have an asian prime minister of the uk in rishi