Image: Catalonian nationalists in Edinburgh on the day of the Scottish referendum. Photo: Byronv2/Flickr, Creative Commons.
There are many reasons to be thankful for living in Scotland. This was brought home powerfully in a week which has seen the Catalan referendum, the experience of the Iraqi Kurds voting on independence, and even the tragic events in the US when Las Vegas witnessed yet another mass killing and carnage.
Scotland is a prosperous and peaceful country. Unlike Catalonia we could have an independence referendum which everyone agreed to, participated in, and accepted who won and who lost.
