We’re drawing this live blog to a close, but we’ll keep you updated on the day’s events in fresh posts on Coffee House. 09:52 The Union is saved – but at what cost? James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson ask what’s coming next in a new Spectator special. 09:49 Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader, has come out against a rushed
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‘Right, Form 4B, what’s all this “Ice Bucket Challenge” nonsense?’
Writers’ block
‘We made this exciting new find that pre-dates the monument itself!’
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‘In the end, we had to put the dog down. I caught him chewing my Manolo Blahniks.’
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I see you’ve gone for the distressed look.’
‘I read that snakes like to live in hot environments.’
There are downsides to society’s new supportive attitude to transgender people
‘That’s how shoe repairers mark out their territory.’
‘I’ve come to Westminster to get away from all the politicians.’
Breaking the unions Sir: By the time this letter appears we shall know whether the land of my birth has separated from the land of my life. I hope not. But is there not an uncanny parallel between the rise of the Scottish desire to quit England and the English desire to quit Europe? The
Home People living in Scotland voted in a referendum that asked: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ A great deal of ill feeling had been generated as the referendum campaign went on. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, was told by backbench Conservative MPs that he faced a ‘bloodbath’ for joining the United Kingdom leaders of
