Other countries can learn from the way Britain dealt with the referendum on Scottish independence: that persuasion works better than coercion.
In 1320, in the Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland’s nobles firmly rejected rule by their southern neighbours: “For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.”
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