The Slow Death of Separatism

The loss of Margo MacDonald's Assisted Suicide Bill reminds us that the issue, as such, barely existed 15 years ago. If it had been anything more than a speck on the horizon, then it would never have been devolved, as abortion was not and is not. Think on.

Think on, even while containing the excitement brought on by proposals in relation to air gun licensing and to the extension of a fiscal power which is not even used in its present form, all wrapped up in a Bill which might never be enacted, not so much because it will be blocked (although it will be deeply divisive within all three parties, at Westminster Labour least of all because they are almost all against it and should have the courage to vote against it), but because there will always be something more pressing. Anything at all, in fact.