by Cailean Gallagher, OpenDemocracy, UK - The many explanations proffered to explain the extraordinary Scottish election result cannot all be correct; at best each can capture a feeling about what happened and why. Here I offer two different explanations as a Scot studying at the moment in England. One looks outward to our place in the UK, and the other looks into the Scottish polity. Both lead to the same conclusion: the need for independence, but not in the sense you would assume.