Stephen Flynn: “The war on terror is not something that's just going to be won in the battlefields in Iraq, as we now see.”

But with the weight of Scottish public opinion moving to our cause – we will see that final lap through.

The public know that those with a real interest in Scotland’s future take the high road in the opposite direction.

He knows – he understands – that for as long as the binds of their Union continue to burst at the seams, there is no possible way that any UK Prime Minister can seriously survive.

It takes effort, it takes patient persuasion, it takes hard graft, but we can see that it is working