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A salutary lesson in how not to run a country

Typical: after 300 years Scotland finally elects an aspirational and effective nationalist government and what happens? A global financial catastrophe threatens to clobber the Scottish economy senseless. Just Scotland's luck. It's back to the drawing board.

Typical: after 300 years Scotland finally elects an aspirational and effective nationalist government and what happens? A global financial catastrophe threatens to clobber the Scottish economy senseless. Just Scotland's luck. It's back to the drawing board.