The shirt off the back? No, the kilt off the midriff.

I awoke this morning to the first news item on Radio Five Live being that gambling establishments will be subject to new regulations, including barring their clients form betting on more than they can afford.  Some should apply that to Alex Salmond who is gambling the entire Scottish economy's future on black (though red has been pre-ordained by Westminster and Brussels) - a roulette with a Russian flavour.  Standard Life doesn't intend to play the Christopher Walken figure out of The Deer Hunter and is making contingency plans to shift jobs and operations south - what a blow to Nationalist pride that would be should the financial equivalent of the Stone of Scone (RBS has forfeited its hallowed position) relocate its headquarters from Edinburgh to London.