"Not Because I Am a Nationalist but Because I Am a Social Democrat"

"Over the centuries of the union with England, we have preserved our culture, music, literature, dialects, customs, laws and Church–and all of that has created a set of Scottish values. Most of us are what I would call 'Burnsian' in our scorn of privilege and our pursuit of fairness and would rather spend taxes on schools and hospitals than cosset bankers or project our might around the world with nuclear missiles and foreign wars. These are rather high-minded values and they rarely guide the governments we get lumbered with in Westminster.
"I see nothing wrong with proclaiming such an identity with pride and I find it depressing that, instead, the campaign has focused on whether we might be £500 per head better or worse off, or how we will cope with all that oil in the North Sea, which seems to be such a burden."


Angus Roxburgh in New Statesman explains why he will be voting in favor of independence for Scotland.


But Paul Krugman in The New York Times has a warning for the Scots.