With the independence movement now firmly entrenched as the political and cultural establishment in Scotland, it’s hard for Jim Sillars to position himself as a lone radical voice anymore. Here though, possibly in atonement for his ill-judged “day of reckoning” comments last year, he outlines what went wrong for the Yes campaign, including its over-reliance on the vast sums paid to it by the SNP, and how best to prepare for the inevitable second round. But in Sillars’s Manichean worldview, where everything in the UK is irremediably broken and independence alone can fix Scotland’s problems, people only ever voted No because they were lied to. This means that, while taking aim at the usual suspects (the "mainstream media", "Project Fear" and so on), any legitimate concerns about currency, defence, the economy, international relations and oil prices are dismissed as the result of misinformation and scaremongering. A sermon preached to the already-converted, it’s unlikely to win any new converts to the cause.