Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Struggling with an incipient cold I went home from Kings Cross last night and took the opportunity of buying the Scottish papers there. It's extraordinary for someone stuck in the London media. The main headline right across The Herald, which is still a broadsheet, was: Act of Settlement review in constitutional shake-up while the Scotsman had a picture of the three opposition party leaders (Labour, Tory and Lib-Dem) with Kenneth Calman who is to chair the constitutional commission that Jack Straw announced as part of his Lazarus Bill. The whole of its front page was dominated by the headline above them: They want to save the Union but have they set a course for independence?
Both are unionist papers. Neither picked up on the central issue highlighted in Tom Griffin's careful post for OK of the Prime Minister's aim to pull ID and security powers back to Westminster. But what were regarded as footnotes in London's coverage, if that, were reported as defining issues north of the border. It seems they really are becoming different countries politically.
