We must heed calls for self-rule, or the union is doomed | Simon Jenkins

The UK is stumbling chaotically down the path to disintegration, guided by an inept Westminster

It’s not fair, cries every child. “Life’s not fair,” retorts every parent. Both sides then wrestle with the crooked timber of mankind to decide who gets the first piece of cake. The purpose of politics is to help them, to minimise unfairness and to fashion a path to compromise.

September’s Scottish independence referendum is coming to seem anything but definitive. It was not the final answer to a que...