Lately, Cameron and Salmond have been engaged in a game of bluff and counter-bluff over a referendum on independence, sparring about the terms in which the question should be phrased and when the vote should be held. Salmond wants it in 2014, the seven-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn where Scotland routed the English. He might win another famous victory, but the signs at present are that the Scots will pull back from the brink. They can take a look around Europe and see for themselves what happens to small countries that live beyond their means. Apart from the fact that good malt whiskey is a better drink than retsina, who wants to live in a version of Greece without the sunshine?
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