Currency disunion

It's a 100-1 that it was a Tory minister who was the unnamed parliamentarian who said Scotland could have a currency union (on the proviso that Faslane was kept as a base for nuclear submarines, much like Sevastopol used to be until recent days for Russia, a Crimea-on-Clyde).  Sir John Major said that Scotland leaving would be very good for the Conservative party but very bad for the United Kingdom and warned against those Tories seeking electoral advantage by handing gifts to the SNP.  Given that it is acknowledged that David Cameron would have to resign if Scotland left, that could be an additional incentive for an immature Tory member (who seem to populate the backbenches for the party of Disraeli and Churchill) who doesn't find him hardline enough.
It is a particularly cowardly to remain anonymous.  Until this intervention, the SNP had to unearth an economist from Beijing to prop up their case for currency union.  And while I would have thought that a Conservative minister would have told the SNP-friendly Murdoch press, The Guardian is a perfectly fine repository as the organ itself has been quite cheery about the prospects for independence (outside of editorial/Rusbridger comment) - many on the left see the dismemberment of the UK as the final death of empire, the same kind of left who allowed British fascists to capture use of the Union Flag.  It's a delusion for it was many Scots who provided the strategic direction and tactical nous for empire-building but immaturity exists on both sides of the spectrum.
In other news (though it really is non-news), a female member of Secret Intelligence Service says women make better spies because of an ability to multi-task and having a better grasp of human emotions.  Leaving aside an attempt to finesse honey-traps, it boils down to: woman says women better than men.  It would have had a lot more credibility coming out of the mouth of a man, not because men are superior but because of impartiality.