Independence Part 1: How Scotland has changed

That look of sardonic amusement on Alex Salmond's face when he unveiled the SNP's proposed referendum question. It's a look that says: "Well, you asked for it; now you've got it." They had indeed. The opposition parties and the UK Government had assumed the SNP would indulge in blatant jiggery pokery over the wording of the independence question. They had also expected a second "fall back" question on devolution max so that Salmond could have his cake and eat it. In the event, there was neither. The spin was that there was no spin, just Salmond's 10 little words: "Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?"