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Did you read with Tim Montgomery.

Welcome to the latest edition of The Times Opinion Podcast.

We're back from our summer break and my goodness what a busy summer it has been on the political front and of course we are

all focused on the looming referendum in Scotland and we're going to

dedicate this first podcast to this huge constitutional upheaval that as we record on Tuesday is just two days away

and I'm joined this morning by Peter Kellner from U-Gav and two of our columnist Hugo Rifkind and Jenny Russell.

But before I ask my guests some of the questions that we're all thinking about,

Lindsay McIntosh is in Edinburgh for us on the front line from Scotland

and if I can ask straight off, Lindsay,

what's the mood there?

Who do you think is winning the Ground War? I don't want you to make a

prediction that we'll hold you to account for, but where's it going at the moment?

...