There’s a door marked ‘Exit’ and Scotland, not London, holds the key

IAIN Bruce leads us through a course of interesting observations in his St Andrew’s Day letter ( Angus Robertson stymies a legitimate route to freedom, Nov 30 ) on what he regards as the Union’s constriction of the historical sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the political course of their own country, a right which ought to have survived the Union, but is being stifled by London’s refusal to allow a further indyref.

Since he takes that refusal as effectively blocking a Scottish exit, he seeks a way round it, which he identifies as the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international treaty to which the UK is a party and which proclaims in its first article that “All peoples have the right of self-determination” by virtue of which “they fre