LAST week the crazy post-Brexit world was highlighted here by the contrasting fortunes it had brought for those lukewarm Remainers, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.

The former soon found herself Prime Minister. The latter was left struggling for his political life.

Now it’s the turn of Scotland to illustrate post-Brexit madness. At every opportunity First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hints at a second Scottish referendum on “independence” - from the UK, that is. She wants this to keep Scotland in the EU, for which, she says, the country voted.

What it actually voted for was to keep the UK in the EU. Whether the Scottish people would chose to remain in the EU outside the UK is a wholly different matter. And, of course, the concept of an “independence”

which, while divorcing Scotland from the UK, would shackle it to the EU is pure nonsense.

I’d like to see Theresa May’s Government call Mrs Sturgeon’s bluff. Announce its willingness to sanction a second Scottish referendum now. And if, indeed, it transpires that Scotland prefers Brussels to Westminster as its ultimate master, so be it. Against declining oil revenues and with the Euro as its currency let it see if the EU is as generous as successive British governments have been.

“MAGNIFICENT achievement.” A tribute by BBC Test Match commentator Michael Vaughan at one point during England batsman Joe Root’s superb innings of 254 against Pakistan at Old Trafford. But Michael wasn’t referring to Root. His praise was for the beer snake, the assemblage of plastic beer glasses, which some of the less cricketorientated spectators had succeeded in extending from the top to the bottom of one stand.

Michael needs to take time out from the commentary box and sit underneath the passing snake, hoping he, and/or his clothes, are not splashed with the dregs.

The snake represents the yobbish behaviour which has cost cricket thousands of cricket lovers at major games. Snake apart, the background noise to the TV commentary suggested there was plenty of it going on at Old Trafford. A few more true fans will stay away next time.

CUT off in my prime. Well, not exactly. But my column last week ended mid-word in mid sentence: “despite laudably restricting occupan” The subject was Dales Barns, in particular a decision to allow the conversion of roadside barns, rather than just those within or near settlements as at present, to homes, got locals only. Applauding this ‘occupancy’ restriction, I nevertheless suggested the policy risked causing serious damage to the Dales landscape, where the barns are a characteristic feature.

I’ll go further. There might not be as much demand as anticipated from locals prepared to live in a far flung barn. And if a remote converted barn that is occupied by a local comes up for sale but fails to attract another local buyer, there will be pressure to remove the local occupancy restriction, to prevent the home being vandalised. In the end, most converted barns will still end up with outsiders.

Many tend to overdress them, suburbanising the landscape.