Plus: CCHQ V Montgomerie. On the Road. The SNP push. Go for the Groat. Why don’t I feel more Scottish? And: I blame Shirley Williams.
The Cabinet Secretary told my committee that contingency planning was actually banned by the Government.
If Scotland votes Yes and the UK votes Labour then Ed Miliband will have to choose between illegitimacy and impotence
It should not be held next May amidst the constitutional uncertainty that would follow a Yes vote.
In any scenario, the main parties are in for a bumpy, uncomfortable ride.
Meanwhile, David Cameron remains the least unpopular party leader – and the only one to outpoll his party.
This is the last chance saloon for the Union – we must make an offer that counts.
We hope and believe that No will win, and that these inquiries will come to nothing. But it is necessary to put them.
The latter need to ask themselves: when did they become the thing they most hate in the world. When did they become LibDems?
Advances in medical science have left the law outdated – but many on both sides of the debate are happy to leave the issue to civil servants.
A senior source told me yesterday that “we are determined to put our best foot forward” – and compared the Carswell defection to a family bereavement.
Why does Labour always run the region down?
Churchill, Mosley, Powell, Prentice, Owen, Berkeley, Taverne…There are the awkward men of principle. Those whose parties have changed radically. And the lost souls.
Where I am in sympathy and where I’m not with the protagonists in the Parris/Goodman debate.
I can’t vote on 18 September, but I’ll be in Glasgow to make sure others can – say yes if you need a ride to the polling booth, but say ‘No Thanks’ once you get there.