The case for Trident is absurd. Scotland may help us get rid of it | Simon Jenkins

Prestige, not defence, is the only reason to keep this £100bn albatross. We may yet give thanks for Alex Salmonds posturing

I just cannot get enough of the Scottish referendum debate. On every side the unthinkable is thought, the unsayable said. The murky covers are removed from North Sea oil, the single currency, the Barnett formula, welfare dependency, the West Lothian question, revealing swamps of intellectual confusion our rulers would rather keep hidden. None is murkier that the fate...