Suddenly, Scotland looks like a land of possibility: "Northward, look, the land is bright!" People who live there are as surprised as those who don't. The mood may deflate soon enough, when Scotland's new government begins to reckon up its pledges and impose the spending cuts that electoral opportunism has postponed, but in the meantime the old map of British humours needs to be redrawn. It no longer shades from white in the south to black in the north, from sanguinity to melancholia. To turn PG Wodehouse's famous remark on its head: a ray of sunshine and a Scotsman with a grievance are only too easily confused.
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