By Pat Kane It’s fair to say – along with the not-so-gentle student arm-twisting of a newly elected representativefor the South of Scotland region – that the veteran SNP grandee Jim Sillars is responsible for my current political identity.

By Thom Cross Scotland does it all the time. We were taught it at school and in the street, by grannies and the meenister; more significantly (ominously?) by our Scottish?