Optometry will be better off if Scotland votes no for independence

As I write this, I am on a flight from Heathrow back home to Edinburgh. Right after we land the pilot, in a Freudian moment, announces ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to England…err Edinburgh!’ Queue laughter from the passengers and silence from the flight deck before a second attempt corrected the mistake.

Whether or not you give credence to the nationalist view that, to the English, Scotland is simply an outcrop largely to be ignored or that by living in Edinburgh I have more shared identity with someone in Motherwell than someone in Manchester simply because we can both pronounce ‘loch’ correctly, is a matter for the national newspapers and perhaps not Optician magazine.