The leading Scottish crime writer Denise Mina has explained why she is voting No in tomorrow's Independence Referendum.

In a piece for Radio Four's Today programme, Mina says that independence is a "conceptual mistake."

She added: "We live in a global environment. The nation state is an irrelevant 17th century construct, and the autonomous nation state is even more fantastical.

"All countries are bound by a web of international and supranational obligations.

"We would not be autonomous. We would be disadvantaged. Factionalizing can only benefit stateless corporations as we vie to give them the best deal.

"And, in a rapidly warming world, forming a small country, reliant on continued oil production, is in no one's interests, not even our own."

She adds: "Worse: the consequences of a Yes vote are shrouded in mystery. Attempts to anticipate any negatives are dismissed as scaremongering.

"A whole Yes belief system has built up around this: consistent signals from the EU that our membership would not be automatic - don't believe it.

"The rest of the UK tell us they don't want a currency union - don't believe it. Belief is not a plan. Belief is a refusal to discuss."

She writes that a "chorus of outrage is not the same as an agenda...It takes me to Tahria Square and the Arab Spring where there was unanimity about overthrowing Mubarak, but no consensus of agenda.

"The power vacuum was filled with the only group who did have a consensus: the Muslim Brotherhood.

"The factional nature of the yes campaign is very clear: Green Yes, SNP yes, Labour Yes.

"On the upside: the civil revolution means that, whatever the outcome of the referendum, politics will never be the same again."

Another major artist also weighed into the debate today. Douglas Gordon, winner of the Turner Prize, appeared to back a Yes vote.

Via the Twitter feed of fellow artist Roddy Buchanan, he said: "I was in love with a girl, she needed her independence.

"I had to say 'YES'! Now we're best friends."