The SNP should start work on a constitution for an independent Scotland before the referendum or risk a shambles, says the chairman of the Constitutional Commission pressure group.
To paraphrase Justice Louis D Brandies:
“If we desire respect for the constitution, we must first make the constitution respectable.”
The organisers of this week’s Royal Highland Show on the outskirts of Edinburgh took the rather audacious decision a couple of years back to bill their event as “The Greatest Show on Earth”.
Such trumpet blowing and triumphalism, especially on a global scale, can be somewhat alien to the Scottish psyche. However, in the world of events promotion, the big birds catch the big worms.
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