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Watching the news just now, Gordon Brown was talking about the "quasi-judicial" decision made by the Scottish Executive to release the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds.
I'm not sure how many people in the UK understand the significance of the word "quasi", or the basic principles of devolution.
The devolved Scottish parliament may have the legal competence to make decisions concerning its own legal system, but it does not (yet) have the devolved competence to make decisions concerning foreign affairs and defence.
Surely this was a decision relating to UK Foreign Affairs? Or was it Quasi-Foreign-Affairs?
On this topic, see also
www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5289358/libyagate-has-its-roots-in-labours-devolution.html
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