In the 2016 film the Big Short, which tells the story of the US subprime mortgage crash, two young traders who see the future financial meltdown coming decide to visit an old college friend, now a financial journalist at the Wall Street Journal, and deliver him the scoop on a plate.

To their astonishment, he shows no interest, and is even flippant when they outline the details of the imminent deluge (‘Nice speech, you sound like Oliver Stone’).

“I thought you were for real?” one says, to which he replies: “You try being for real with a three-year-old and a wife who’s doing her masters. I’m not burning through my contacts because of your hunch.”

They leave dumbfounded, and conclude: “He won’t do his job because he wants to keep access to the banks, so he can keep the job he won’t do.”

It’s a good line and one that resonates strongly in the wake of the sordid saga of Peter Murrell, former CEO of the SNP and erstwhile husband of former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Murrell has admitted embezzling £400,000 of party funds to purchase luxury vehicles and sundry knick-knacks and bibelots.

Read more: Scotland’s Media, Not Just Nicola Sturgeon, Has Questions to Answer Over the Murrell Affair