How will theScots feel about risking independence if their newly repatriated political leaders cannot even make a success of the halfway-house of devolution?
One book he likes is Born Fighting, by James Webb, now a U.S. senator from Virginia, about howthe feisty, persecuted Scots-Irish transferred their Celtic-warrior mindset to the American South.
There continues to be a big difference between the proportion of Scots who would like the Scottish government to have most influence over how Scotland is run (63%) and the proportion who believe it actually does (34%).