Scottish referendum: this is the hardest campaign I have ever had to call | Politics | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/07/scottish-referendum-hardest-campaign-to-call-andrew-rawnsley
The ballot paper simply asks: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” That is the beauty of a referendum – and the brutality. Complexity is mercilessly reduced to the binary. Yes or no? The kaleidoscopic relationship between the nations of these islands; all those decades of rivalry, friendly and not so friendly; all those centuries mingling blood and ideas and people; all that rich intricacy is boiled down to one stark choice.
