On the classical guitar, the heel supports the neck joint on the back side.

This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.

I would fall down on my knees and I besought God to heal my heart and to forgive my iniquity.

In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.