Alert readers may have noticed reports in the press that the famous French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this month carried a four-page feature on the state of politics in Scotland, having sent two of its senior staff – accompanied by their French police bodyguard – over to conduct a series of interviews.

We thought you might like to see it, so we commissioned a translated version.

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(C) Charlie Hebdo 2016. Reproduced with permission. Translations by Robert McLiam Wilson. Graphic editing by Lindsay Bruce. Thanks to Gerry Braiden.