Twenty years ago, during a crowded first minister’s question time in the very young Scottish parliament, a group of Trident Ploughshares members dramatically interrupted normal business by dropping a banner and demanding that the parliament face up to the question of the UK’s nuclear weapons and debate it.
They held up business for about 15 minutes before they were removed by police.
The deputy first minister, Jim Wallace, was apoplectic.
The presiding officer, David…