Are the Scots ‘foreign’, Jonah? Most definitely. Just ask them – and, yes, it is true that they had a much more self-consciously ‘philosophical’ tradition than the English. So great, for example, was the intellectual influence of the Scottish enlightenment that Voltaire famously announced that it was to Scotland for “all our ideas of civilization.”

The French sage’s opinions on Irn Bru and deep-fried Mars Bars remain unknown.