The future of Scotland has hit the headlines this week, as David Cameron waded into the debate about the future of the Union. Uncertainties abound, and at the moment about the only thing we can be sure of is that some sort of referendum on Scotland’s future will have been held by the end of 2014. For those of us in the North of England, the key question on the lips of many is whether more devolution (so-called devo-max) or the independence of our near neighbours will be good, bad or indifferent for this part of the country.