
WELL, that's it then. Let's all just give up on this Scottish independence malarky and watch hagiographic royal family documentaries on the BBC while we wrap ourselves in British flags and consider ourselves lucky that we have been saved from nationalism. For Liz Truss has put us right.
The frontrunner in the Great Conservative Who Will Be The Next Worst Ever Prime Minister Contest has announced that the United Kingdom is not in fact a union of four nations, it is actually "one great nation" and Truss is determined that her government's policies will apply in all corners of it – no matter that the Scottish, sorry “North British” part of it has not voted Conservative since the 1950s.