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# Scotland and the tide below the waves
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/scotland-and-the-tide-below-the-waves/
- Published: 2009-06-22T12:06:44.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:43:20.000Z
- Author: Anthony Barnett
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

Powerful article [in the Glasgow Herald](http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2515528.0.why%5Fcalman%5Freport%5Fcould%5Fbring%5Fsalmond%5Fand%5Fcameron%5Ftogether.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) by Iain Macwhirter on the Calman Commission on Scottish Devolution which everyone in London who is interested in UK politics should read . He reports that Calman is "arguably as  
important as the 1988 Claim of Right and the 1997 Devolution white  
paper. By making the intellectual case for a degree of fiscal autonomy  
so cogently, it has set Scotland on a new course which should lead, at  
the very least, to a new federal United Kingdom within 10 years." Macwhirter says he is astonished that the Tories have agreed to it and set Britain on course for new settlement. Is Cameron ensuring the English card remains in play despite his professed unionism? (Hat tip Tom Griffin)