The pair - arguably the most prominent public figures in Scotland - have long disagreed about politics…

“She is flat out Trumpian in her shameless denial of reality and hard facts,” adds the Edinburgh-based author.

Rowling describes that as Sturgeon’s “basket of deplorables” moment, a reference to Hillary Clinton’s disastrous dismissal of half of her rival Donald Trump’s supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic.

As an American, I principally interpret Scotland’s political environment via analogs to the American political environment, which is what I have the most familiarity with. It’s reassuring to see that apparently the most-prominent public figures in Scotland operate the same way. I can’t be too far off the mark!