Who will fill a coward’s grave? 100 Days to decide Scotland’s future

In the new Scotland people may be able to count. Until then we will endure nonsense like yesterday’s hoopla claiming there were 100 days until the referendum when there were, in fact, 101.

Peevishness aside, the campaign now enters its final stages. Not before time, you may think. You would not be alone in reckoning so. For every person energised by the campaign (and many folk have been) there’s at least one thirsting for it to end.

Not that it will, of course. If the Yes side wins more than 40 per cent of the vote (and especially it it takes more than 45 per cent) this thing will rumble on and on. Until, as one nationalist put it to me recently, “we win”.

As matters stand – which is to say, if the referendum were held tomorrow – Scotland would vote No. Even the high heid yins in the Yes campaign admit that.