London.
Australians are well known as admirers of the Ealing comedy, and no art form has ever been invented that would do more justice to the current debate about whether Scotland should separate from England. With a little over three months to go before the plebiscite on 18 September a discussion marked by deceit and incompetence on both sides ought to have left the electorate in deep confusion about what to do for the best.
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Simon Heffer is a former deputy editor of The Spectator and author of, most recently, Simply English (Spectator Bookshop).
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