The Telegraph splashed last week that Sinn Féin intends to work with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to “break up the UK”. Cue the usual outbreak of pearl-clutching from Westminster, where people who cannot run a railway timetable suddenly speak as if they are Metternich preserving the Congress of Vienna.
But perhaps we should all calm down and ask an awkward question.
What if they’re right? Not morally right. Not romantically right. Not Braveheart right. But economically, culturally and politically right.
