Third Avenue has an excellent post over at the Sharpener. Good to read an eloquent defence of the present constitutional settlement.
I won't comment further because embarrassingly for me as a Scot, I think he knows rather more about it than I do.
"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum
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