Alex McLeish and Theresa May may now suffer a sense of solitude in this coming week, that could bear comparison with Alexander Selkirk’s enforced marooning on that desert island. Of course there will be more people buzzing around a Scotland manager and a prime minister, than there ever was on that dot in the ocean, but I believe their kind of loneliness will be more difficult to endure than that of a man listening solely to the screeching of seagulls. As the brilliantly funny, but nevertheless chronic depressive Robin Williams once said: "The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone."


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