Spiers decided he couldn't write for the Herald after disagreeing about the timing of its publication of an apology for one of his columns about the problems of bigotry "around" Rangers football club.
Though the American Muslim community is becoming increasingly diverse, the problem of ignorance and bigotry towards Islam is still an issue.
For it, the problem is less fear of bigotry than the difficulty of coaxing musicians to come and beleaguered airlines to provide free tickets.
Let's reserve the word racist, he suggests, for clear-cut instances of bigotry, and address more subtle problems of racial prejudice as we do air pollution, instead of rape or murder.
The Republican Party, apparently fearful of losing his voters, has not truly confronted Trump on any point but his buffoonery, which is not the main problem; the bigotry at the heart of the clown act is.
However, beyond the confines of the school, British society is rife with serious problems of prejudice and bigotry, and it is to Braithwaite's credit that he points clearly to these issues.
"In Scotland the problem was bigotry more than racism and that over the last couple of years has been highlighted enough, that now certain singing at grounds is unnacceptable.
Slagging conservatism has become my one acceptable form of bigotry.
The core of bigotry is not rational.
"Zero tolerance of bigotry," he said.
