The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was supposed to put to rest the question of Scotland's place in the Union for at least a generation. Yet, ever since the 2016 Brexit vote, intense speculation about Scotland's future has dom- inated conversation on the streets of Edinburgh and in the halls of Holyrood, stoked further by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's recent announcement that a second independ- ence referendum will take place within the next two years. Ullrich Kockel's predictions of the independence move-ment returning with a vengeance - made in 2015 on the pages of this very periodical - have materialized as Brexit inexorably widens the conceptual gap of what it means to belong in post-referenda Britain (Hart 2016).