The SNP leader Alex Salmond won the admiration of the Catholic bishops but a respected commentator predicts that the Church’s relationship with his party may now turn sour Next week Neil MacGregor, the Glasgow-born and -educated director of the British Museum, begins a 30-part BBC radio series on the history and identity of Germany. He stands in a line of highly cultured Scots who have ascended to the leadership of British institutions – banking, the BBC, the Civil Service, medicine, the military and so on. Most are unionist in their outlook, while also feeling proud to be Scots. Reviewing the outcome of the independence referendum, they probably feel relief, but they must also feel that Scotland is a changing country. MacGregor makes the point that the criterion of Germ