Memo to Alex Salmond. No matter what you do with the independence referendum – no matter which questions are asked, who is deemed eligible and where they currently live – please don’t hold it on the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.
Of course, it’s tempting to pile on the symbolic pressure as David Cameron threatens, Baroness Taylor blunders (does Labour really think the accident of birth should trump residency in voting entitlement?) and Michael Forysth mocks: “The idea we should decide the fate of the UK on … the date of a medieval battle … would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious.”
