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Scotland always was a foreign country

<p class="StandfirstFeatures">It’s tempting to look for parallels between the Scottish independence vote and our own republican referendum.</p>

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

You will know by now if Scotland has decided to go it alone. I don’t, because at time of writing the independence referendum is still a few days away, and despite having been in the UK for the last two weeks I’m no more able to predict the result than if I’d spent those two weeks in Bali.

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