ADAM Tompkins lapses into lists of unionist rhetoric on the challenges of Scottish nationhood in support of his thesis that the current absence of active campaigning indicates the constitutional question is going into cold storage ("The signs of summer 2021 that it's all quiet on the second referendum front", The Herald, July 28). As a constitutional lawyer he must be aware of the many new European nations that have been created in the last 30 years. Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic are examples of small countries which have emerged and flourished following the collapse ...