Most Scots have made up their minds how they will vote in September, and they are heavily polarised

Alex Salmond is still incapable of formulating a decent plan for what Scotland would do without the pound

The question of the referendum is not "could Scotland be independent?", but "why should it be?"

Whether Yes or No triumphs, the 1707 Union is over

A treasury briefing which questions Scotland's economic strength could have unintended consequences

This is a response to Linda Colley's article in the May issue of Prospect The case for an unwritten constitution gets rather short shrift from Professor Colley, who points out that between 1720...

If Salmond loses the independence referendum, there will be an urgent need to hammer out an alternative to Westminster absolutism

In-depth analysis and debate on September's referendum

It’s striking that those who have come top of Prospect’s poll to pick the World Thinker of 2014 have devoted their lives to questions of development. We don’t, I should say at the start, make...

Put women in charge and grant England independence