…in the UK. Long live England. Long live Scotland. Simon Heffer writes in the Telegraph: I feel England and Scotland will only ever be happy together if they are politically apart. I am sure from the Scots’ point of view independence would be a mistake – the Luxembourg of the north they are not – but grown-ups must be allowed to make their own mistakes. For the moment, the Tories should take the lead and announce that, as far as they are concerned, the Union, like the empire, is over.