Also: Brokenshire sets Good Friday deadline for talks as UUP elect new leader; and Welsh Tories regain second place as Reckless ‘re-rats’ from UKIP.
Britain has a tradition of democracy, and Britons shunning elections are not, typically, making a stance against that.
The seat of our national politics is deeply unfashionable in constitutional circles, but is essential to a well-governed and united kingdom.
A curious alignment of remainer Unionists and Scottish nationalists was convinced that Brexit would cause the end of the UK. Fortunately, they were wrong.
We cannot have a vote when all that is known is what legal deal has been agreed.
Impartiality shouldn’t be mistaken for overlooking so much that is good about Britain.
A third-rate leader like her – who can’t even run her schools properly – wants to make me a foreigner to my other half, and turn my home into “abroad”.
A third of 2014 Yes voters supported Leave last year. There is an opportunity to split them away from Scottish secessionism.
The most ominous portent for a second poll is that the No campaign has collapsed. It needs rebooting urgently.
“The evidence is that a majority of the Scottish people do not want a second independence referendum.”
Sturgeon wants a poll to be timed to cause maximum disruption to the talks. She mustn’t get away with it.
She says that the poll should be “at a time when the options are clearer than they are now, but before it is too late to decide our own path”.
Whatever Scotland’s first Minister decides to do, events seem to be creating their own momentum.
Even when the question is properly specified, they offer voters a binary choice without any consideration of the consequences that potentially flow.
There is a danger that those of us with strong opinions are not always the best judges of balance.