I was born in Essex. But I have spent my life in Scotland, a place where sometimes it’s not easy being English. I still have an English accent and a pathological urge to say “please” and “thank you.” But this is a mere veneer, for I have gone native—my heart is tartan. I am the Hollywood stereotype, a heathen, war painted, kilted transvestite, stubbornly holding my ground no matter what, and am therefore direct and blunt. If this upsets people, so …