Brexit: Boris Johnson plays with "the future of Europe", accuses Donald Tusk

AT Edinburgh, the "Stevenson Trail", the tourist circuit dedicated to the famous Scottish traveler writer, takes you into the alleys, the stairs and the secret courtyards of the old city. At any moment, one of the protagonists of a Robert-Louis Stevenson novel, staggering and haggard, is expected to spring up, leaning over a corpse. The guide launches, with a nod to the signatory of these lines, "today, the murderer would be blond and unbalanced".

The enthusiasm of Scottish independenceists

The anecdote illustrates the scorn in which the Scots hold Boris Johnson. Edinburgh, yet the most anglicized city in the province, rejects a prime minister born with a silver spoon in his mouth, molded at the posh boarding school of Eton and Oxford. North of Hadrian's Wall, meritocracy is a religion.

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