By Will Self,
30 October 2014
Photo: Craig Easton, from the "Scottish Referendum" series
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Writing 20 years ago in <em>The State We’re In</em>, his compelling
diagnosis of Britain’s political ills at the time, Will Hutton minted
this memorable sentence: “Unqualified shareholder sovereignty and
parliamentary sovereignty are two sides of the same coin.” In the wake
of the Scottish independence referendum there has already been a great
deal of constitutional agonising of the Whither Now? variety, yet none
of the commentary I have read or listened to has properly grasped the
dual sovereign horns of the dilemma we face.
Read the full article here:
New Statesman
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