An Odd Prospect.

The big domestic issue in Britain at the moment is the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence. As you might imagine, the politicians and sundry experts in a variety of fields are arguing themselves hoarse over high political and economic questions. What seems of greatest consequence to me, however, is that for the first time in around three hundred years, my England might soon have a land boundary with a foreign country. (The middle of the Channel Tunnel doesn’t count.) That’s a freaky thought.