Scotland's new era beckons, regardless of how it votes in a stupid referendum | Simon Jenkins

Ultimately, there is little to choose between the devo-max pledged by unionist parties and what Alex Salmond offers

Can Scotland do it? The campaign for September's independence vote opens officially on Friday. Yet both campaign and vote are superfluous: it will make no difference which side wins; either way, the outcome will be much the same.

This is the only sane conclusion to draw from this week's two "dodgy dossiers" on economics, one from the Scottish government and another from...