Jon Bright (London, OK): Thanks to Matt Wardman for directing me to Ordovicius' translation of Richard Wyn Jones' recent talks on the subject of devolution and the future of the UK. Jones, of Aberystwyth University, outlines five possible answers to the English question - five possible ways of preserving the UK - each of which is riddled with problems. He concludes that none of them is a satisfactory answer, and that only the 'nationalists' (English nationalists that is) have developed a coherent constitutional solution to the current problem - albeit one that won't do much for the Union. On one thing Jones is settled, however - in the words of Burke, "change is needed, so that things can say the same". The question is, if you are a unionist, what change?
UPDATE: David Hayes from the main openDemocracy site has pointed out to me that this is actually a quote from Lampedusa's 'The Leopard' - "If we want everything to stay the same, then everything must change".
