This is our story, and Scotland's too, and it deserves to be heard

Regular readers may recall that I recently had a run-in with the National Library of Scotland.

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The august institution - which according to its website, collects “Scotland's stories - preserving the past, enriching the present and inspiring the future!” - decided a book I had co-edited was too hot to handle.

The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht, which I conceived and edited with Lucy Hunter-Blackburn, is a collection of essays by women about their campaign to protect women's rights, which were under threat from Nicola Sturgeon's now discredited self-ID plans.

Authors include JK Rowling, Joanna Cherry KC and MSPs Pam Gosal and Rachael Hamilton. Strong women with different political views, united by their sex. There are also essays by women survivors of sexual violence, the mother of a profoundly disabled girl and another woman whose two teenage daughters had decided they were boys after becoming involved in their school’s LGBT+ club.