Our panel reflects on the historic vote – and what comes next

In a way, nothing happened. It is easy to forget that despite all the upheaval that followed, 55% of Scottish voters decided to keep things as they were. Then, despite being on the losing side of the independence referendum, the SNP became unbeatable, the Conservatives staged a small but sturdy revival and Scottish Labour crumbled like loose shortbread in a handbag. Like those spooky bits of physics that threaten to overturn the whole discipline, the political consequences of the IndyRef seemed bafflingly disconnected from the actual result.

Rory Scothorne is a historian and writer based in Edinburgh