During the 2014 independence referendum campaign, Sturgeon - as part
of the nationalists» Yes Scotland group - told a story about a Scotland that would go its own way, where politicians would break from Westminster «
austerity» and take decisions that reflected the peculiarly compassionate
nature of the people (readers who had the misfortune to be born outside Scotland must remember that those
of us who entered the world north
of the border are special because we just are).