The Ukraine war has drastically altered the stakes of Scottish independence, says Andrew Marr in The New Statesman. With Russia now “openly threatening” the West with nuclear weapons, Britain’s own Trident nuclear deterrent ­is suddenly centre stage. The submarines which carry the missiles are based in Scotland – and if the country goes independent, the fiercely anti-nuclear SNP certainly wouldn’t allow the subs to remain. Nicola Sturgeon, for one, “joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament even before she joined the SNP”. But there are no good alternative bases elsewhere in Britain. South Wales is too near oil and gas installations; the southern English coast is too close to busy sea lanes and heavily populated areas. And basing Trident on US or French territory would be a “national humiliation”.

In 1994, a book entitled Politically Correct Bedtime Stories became a number one bestseller, says Celia Walden in The Daily Telegraph. “How people laughed” at Cinderella’s fairy “godperson” and Snow White’s seven “vertically challenged men”. But almost 30 years on, Disney is close to making this satire reality. In its latest remake of Cinderella, the heroine becomes a “progressive fourth-wave feminist” who refuses to be scooped up by her prince (“I can walk, it’s faster”). The dwarves in the next Snow White film are being replaced by “mythical creatures”, and there is pressure to make the kiss awaking the heroine from her eternal slumber “consensual”. Disney World Florida has replaced its traditional welcome of “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls” with the more gender-inclusive “Dreamers of all ages”.