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Iain Macwhirter: If this was defeat, then Scotland could do with more of it

IT is 6.20am on a dreich Friday morning in Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth exhibition centre. Standing in front of the plastic planets and dinosaur kitsch, is Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond. He assembles his tired features into his best ‘brave face’ as he concedes defeat in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.