Watching the narrative arc of the Sturgeon family campervan – removed from the drive of Nicola Sturgeon’s mother-in-law as part of an SNP fraud probe – is an opportunity to review the campervan. Or motorhome, if you prefer. The Mrs Murrell model is a stylish Niesmann + Bischoff ‘iSmove’, priced at £110,000 or thereabouts (her son, Peter Murrell, it should be said, has been released without charge pending further investigation). There’s an irony in being accused of embezzling money for an independence campaign and then supposedly spending it on driving away. Nationalism is about standing still, but campervans contain people and people contain multitudes.
There is a cognitive dissonance between the dreams of van life and trying to manoeuvre a four-bed vehicle to the sorts of places you would want to live a van life
The Mercedes V-Class Marco Polo was my first campervan and it is very stylish: the cottagecore aesthetic of the classic VW campervan, in which I once had a terrible trip to Glastonbury because they don’t work, has been swept away. Again,
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