Scottish independence referendum week in review: the campaign belongs to Freddie Mercury

Regular readers will be aware that it is my stated mission to travel far and wide reporting on the independence referendum from more understated events than the launch of, say, Tourism Together.

I met these ducklings, above, at a meeting for undecided wildfowl on the banks of Loch Lomond yesterday evening. At least, it was advertised as 'undecided', but I should say for the record that I did spot rather a lot of 'yes' wing-bands.

They were initially unwilling to discuss their voting intentions, but I soon got to the root of their reticence. "We had that Ross Kemp round here earlier," they explained through tremulous quacks, "telling us we were his best friends..."

Still, this is a weekly round-up so let's start at the very beginning, as Julie Andrews tell't me....

Over the weekend I belatedly blogged my visits to Yestival and the Common Weal Festival.

Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian explained his conversion from no to yes.

Comment-wise, Madeleine Bunting described the dilemma of the no voter here while Dave Hill argued that London win regardless of the outcome of Scotland's referendum.

Scotland got its own domain name as well as a possible spaceport, evidence of growing national confidence and technological-blah-blah which may or may not have any impact on the duckling vote.

Juncker didn't rule out Scotland joining the EU before 2019, but everybody said that he did.

Freddie Mercury loaned posthumous inspiration to both the no campaign's latest unofficial project...

...and yes campaigners National Collective's response to it...

On our media blog, Roy Greenslade did a sharp bit of digging into some Commonwealth Games coverage.

Our Northern editor Helen Pidd accompanied Alex Salmond to Liverpool yesterday for a speech to English business leaders.

And the argument about Scottish exceptionalism - ie are Scots really more progressive, egalitarian, kinder to children and animals, and better-looking than other parts of the country? - was finally put to rest forever.

Car thieves in Dumbartonshire who mistakenly stole a dog along with the vehicle they were nicking left the pooch tied to a pole, where he was rescued and returned to his owners. That's my Scotland.



Next week: Murphy the dug's exclusive thoughts on currency union...