Ten years since the independence referendum? Seems like ten minutes. It is certainly too soon to tell the whole story of those heady days.

Officially, the new 20-year-rule applies to government records from the years leading up to the referendum. In reality, we may never know the truth about what took place in the stranger moments.

Top of that list of known unknowns is exactly what happened when Queen Elizabeth, in the week of the referendum, said she hoped voters would “think very carefully about the future”. Was it the monarch being her usual Gnomic self, or the UK Government, knowing the Queen could not become involved in politics by confirming or denying she had said such a thing, using her to sway opinion in favour of “No”?

There will be other sources historians can draw upon as they try to transport themselves back to 2014. For my money, and for a taste of the sheer, red in-tooth-and-claw atmosphere of the times, no document can match an episode of the BBC Scotland comedy Two Doors Down. Let the record show the piece in question is episode four in series four, titled Graham and Sandra (it’s still on iPlayer).

The setting, as usual, is the suburban home of Beth and Eric Baird. Joining the gathering of neighbours are an English couple, Graham and Sandra. After much good-natured discussion about what it means to be Scottish, and why it’s different from being........

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