Remember before the referendum, readers, when the £30bn cost of decommissioning oil platforms was a nightmarish unaffordable millstone around a future Scotland’s neck that proved it couldn’t be independent?

It turns out it wouldn’t have been so bad after all.

Because as it happens, what we all previously thought was a dreadful crippling burden is now actually a massively lucrative business opportunity, which has apparently been denied to Scotland by the awful SNP government.

We’ll get back to you when we find out for sure which it is.