The left-wing fight to stop people refuting woke orthodoxy with truth is nowhere more intense now than in Scotland, of all places. And there are encouraging signs for the forces of veracity.

Those seeking to suppress facts have been driven into retreat because the army of truth has acquired the most powerful conceivable champion in this battle over the freedom to say certain things. Their leader now is J.K. Rowling, the massively popular billionaire and global bestselling author of the Harry Potter stories of witchcraft and wizardry.