There’s been a bit of a stooshie today, caused by a fairly crass Scotland on Sunday piece and accompanying photo of a swastika photoshopped onto a saltire. A wholly predictable Twitter-storm followed, with people queuing up to be outraged, furiously tweeting and retweeting links to the undoubted delight of the editorial team.

Rather than get into another article full of bleating about how offensive those nasty unionist journalists have been, would it not be better to take a look at how disingenuous their attempted implication of the nationalist movement and the European far right actually is? Yeah, I thought so.

Quite simply, when you think of a disagreeable group waving a flag, which flag are they waving? It’s not a saltire, is it?

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