The muddles of devolution will grow direr by the day. Byelections will develop a nightmare edge. Simon Heffer will smile again and the Blair project look pretty sick. Yet that is not because the project has moved us from the old world to the new. Instability is unfinished business.
Instability is the void between the two worlds.
Helmut Kohl got the hang of it. Jordi Pujol could write a text book about it. He frightens Madrid into coughing up funds. He offers a veneer of nationalist ideology and a solid record of economic expansion. Catalans don't back him so fulsomely in the Cortes elections, but they cherish him closer to home.