Oddball Tory MP presents bonkers-but-picturesque propaganda against Scottish independence. Actually quite enjoyable apart from his biographical stuff which didn't fit, oh... and that stinking, lousy, anti-democratic stance on independence.

Nice try - but Stewart gives the game away when he says most (all other?) academics disagree with him - there is no lost middle Britain! Nothing is shared in the lands between the Midlands and Highlands that is not also shared with others. But the story Stewart spins is original, illuminated by forgotten history and told with such panache that it is worth it. But is this in fact a play, in his own small way, on the Scots referendum by the Conservative MP for The Borders?