The feud between Sturgeon and Salmond could derail Scottish independence | Martin Kettle

Damage inflicted by the former first minister on his protege could have serious consequences in May’s Holyrood elections

Few spectacles are more horribly watchable than a political feud. From Caesar and Pompey in the ancient world to Gordon Brown versus Tony Blair in the modern one, feuds are riveting and often barely believable in their intensity. During the Napoleonic wars, a pair of cabinet ministers even found time to fight a duel, in which the foreign secretary George Canning was shot in the thigh by the war minister Viscount Castlereagh.

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Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist

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