and the phone slammed down again. as a warning? as a warning, absolutely. so i remember that. i remember a slingshot being fired through my bathroom window and it hitting my dad on the head, having to be hospitalised. i remember all of that really vividly. as you describe it now, it is shocking, but does it feel like another world ? here we are talking, i was looking back at something you said a few years back, back in 2006, "scotland needs an ethnic minority politician, there isn't one in scotland" is what you said. now you're not only the first asian party leader but of course there's another asian party leader in scotland, who is now the first minister, humza yousaf. we also have an asian prime minister of the uk and rishi sunak as well. does itjust feel a lifetime since your father got into politics? absolutely. i mean, my grandparents would never have imagined the situation we are in just now.