Word is that Whitehall is making virtually no contingency plans for what to do if the Scots vote to go. If true, this is surely a dereliction of duty. Meanwhile, MPs at Westminster this week started an inquiry into Civil Service impartiality – or the lack of it – in the Scottish referendum debate. Shockingly, at the very first session, it became clear that the much vaunted code that bans officials from being politically partisan is unenforceable. The best that can be hoped for is that someone at the top will talk to those who breach the rules and tell them not to do it again. Not that Sir Bob Kerslake, the head of the Civil Service, or Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, appear to be doing even that. To add to all this, there are now fears that one upshot of the mess and muddle will be that mandarins’ advice to ministers will no longer be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.