Not conquered by force, but "Bought and Sold for English Gold" doesn't come from nowhere after all. Okay, so Scotland is a completely separate place with little in common with England. So why has the Act of Union lasted so long? What's happened in the past 15 years to merit the creation of a new Scottish parliament? What's the actual issue besides the chest-beating of Scots?

Had Scotland been an independent country during the Cold War, what do people think is the likelihood Scotland would have been friendly with the Soviets?