Politics is supposed to fall asleep during the summer — grab a Lilo, find a beach, close its eyes — but this year it didn’t. The passionately fought Labour leadership campaign has been drawing big crowds. Theresa May’s new cabinet has been grappling with the awesome responsibility of negotiating Brexit. Subtle splits have already appeared. And then for the true aficionados, the box-set political bingers, there has been Hillary against Donald.

It’s hard to remember a busier political summer. But it’s also striking that Scotland and the future of the British union has vanished from news bulletins and (most) newspaper front pages.

Remember the 2014 independence referendum? Old stuff. Polling last week showed even Scots don’t want a second go at that and might well