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Joyce McMillan has been writing for over two decades on Scottish culture and politics, primarily for the Scotsman, and is a remarkably consistent voice arguing for a pluralist, left-liberal Scotland - and not only arguing, but being hands-on, as part of the British government’s Consultative Steering Group on procedures for the new Scottish Parliament between 1998 and 1999. Ca's canny on the independence question, staying close to popular sovereignty as the ultimate decider (and fair enough), but a touchstone of the Scottish progressive consensus.