I was taken aback by your leader (“Nation that needs redemption”, 21 September) and the suggestion that any desire for independence on the part of Scotland is selfish, materialistic, self-absorbed, a bid for full control of Scottish oil revenues, inevitably impoverishing the rest of Great Britain and the further suggestion that “if England owned such North Sea oil reserves it would be inconceivable for it to refuse to share its wealth with the Scots”. With one year before a referendum to decide whether Scotland should become an independent nation, the debate is heating up and some people are focusing on the question of economic stability. But there is another conversation going on and that is about the kind of Scotland we want to live in. How is Scotland to live up