WHEN THE football pundits on Sky Sports joked about the former Celtic player Charlie Nicholas being late for the programme because he had been held up by border passport controls you knew that the independence debate was reaching out beyond the political chattering classes. While these footballers may have been joking they were actually making a very serious point about what would happen if we in Scotland voted for a divorce with the United Kingdom.

MILLIONS of us turned our thoughts at the weekend to those who fought and died fighting for our country, in particular the fight in the Second World War to preserve our democracy.The Oxford Dictionary