On idenity

The end of the Union is coming sooner rather later – Telegraph Blogs: Scotland is drifting away from England and consequently will someday sail out of the United Kingdom. As I have argued in the Telegraph before, this isn’t because Scots are now more different from the English than they used to be. On the contrary it’s because they are more alike, because there are fewer differences in the way people live either side of the old Border. It is precisely because of the greater uniformity that so many Scots feel the need to assert that we are distinct and different.