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checkout. A better web starts with your website. Hello and this week will be asking whether these are the last days of Great Britain.

I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week we'll be asking whether these are the last days of Great Britain.

First I talked to George Eaton and New Shecaly in about a week that caught Westminster off

guard with polls for the first time putting a yes campaign ahead.

Then our editor Jason Cowley himself unionist, talks to Jerry Hassan who favors

independence about what the future means for Britishness.

Finally, Ian Stedman, Fianna Rutherford and I discuss the new Apple, Small Phone, Big Phone, and Little Tiny Watch.

Our cover story this week is Britain in meltdown, a reaction to Westminster's panic over a poll

which showed for the first time the yes to independence campaign ahead. Following that, the party leaders

decamped to Scotland to show how much they loved Scotland. Poor old Scotland doesn't

really love them back. I'm joined by a political editor George Eaton and Anusha

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