Eight essays outlining the case for and against independence and published in the Scotland on Sunday earlier this year are compiled in this handy pdf pamphlet for your iPad

The Scottish Parliament votes in favour of independence but, watching from the media gallery, David Torrance witnessed not an historic occasion but the usual tired old lines.

As a House of Commons Select Committee launches an inquiry into the need for a UK constitutional convention, David Torrance ponders its possible role in the referendum "no" campaign.

Political commentator Alex Massie will be online on Sunday morning at 11am to discuss his column on the SNP

Andrew Wilson's speech setting out a vision of a kind of Scottish nationalism that was compatible with a British identity was prescient in many ways, and still makes instructive reading now, 13 years on

With all this talk of Scotland leaving the "United Kingdom" but remaining part of a "united kingdom", David Torrance is beginning to wonder if anyone understands the history of the country we currently inhabit.

With the constitutional battle about to move to the Upper House, is the SNP's absence from the House of Lords more of a legislative hindrance than a help?

So the referendum game is afoot, but how strong is each side's hand in this "giant game of constitutional poker"?