New SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during the referendum campaign. Photograph: Murdo MacLleod/Murdo MacLeod I suppose we’ll all just have to live with the epithet by which Scotland is now known throughout the globe: the most scared wee country in the world… for a few years longer anyway. But at least we can also claim to be the most political. Nicola Sturgeon’s coronation last week as leader of the SNP provided another political landmark in a febrile, seven-year period in Scotland that’s been full of them. The MSP for Glasgow Southside becomes the first female leader of the SNP and, next month, will also become Scotland’s first female first minister. She may yet also be the person to whom it...
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