Here’s my selection of stories to infuriate, inform and inspire from today’s Sunday papers. I can’t pick all the stories, so please add your favourites in the comments.

Obviously the fallout rom the Scottish independence referendum dominates. Don’t blame me. Blame David Cameron for using the occasion to pick a fight with Ed Miliband to try and make him out to be anti-English ahead of the General Electiona and, more immediately, the Labour conference. Labour wanted the week to plug their platform for the election. No such luck, it seems. It’s very annoying that Scotland has been caught in the crossfire.

The Independent on Sunday quotes Nick Harvey, Bob Maclennan and Paul Tyler on what they see as the way ahead. Nick Clegg is urged by Harvey to do a deal with Cameron and implement it before the election:

Sir Nick Harvey MP, a defence minister for the first two years of the coalition, said that Lib Dems should agree to support Tory calls for English votes for English laws in exchange for regional reforms. Sir Nick said that this could include more powers for local councils or city regions.

The Lib Dems have long called for decentralisation of political power, and in their 2010 general election manifesto even pledged to help develop regional stock exchanges. Lib Dems complain that the UK is one of the most centralised western states in the world – but whatever the prize, many activists do not want to see another deal with the Tories.

The Better Together campaign, which I’ve previously described as “the worst of Yes to AV combined with the best of The Thick of it,” has its shortcomings laid bare. First of all, the Observer is way too kind about Douglas Alexander’s contribution. They don’t even mention the worst advent in the history of political broadcasting which had his fingerprints all over it, but it does nail down the factional infighting within the Labour party that was one of its greatest weakness:

The Better Together and, to a lesser extent, the wider no campaign was shambolic, divided and, at times, plain incompetent; riven by personality clashes (not only, but largely, confined to within the Labour fold) and inter-party political disputes. It was, paradoxically, often a display of British politics at its worst.

Gordon Brown’s former spin doctor Damian McBride spares no senior Labour figures in the Mail on Sunday:

After Scottish Labour’s poor showing in May’s European elections, Douglas Alexander decamped to Scotland to take charge.

With Gaza, Ukraine, and Iraq in flames, this was no time for Labour’s shadow foreign secretary and 2015 General Election coordinator to take a sabbatical.

But Douglas’s first and last priority in life is himself, and if Scotland was lost, so was his career.

Jim Murphy, shadow minister for international development, is cut from the same cloth. He has a gymnastic approach to politics, adopting any position that will impress the judges.

In an interview with the Sunday Times (£), Jo Swinson says that middle aged women have even less body confidence than teens:

We don’t seem to need to pigeonhole men in quite the same way. Learning to value women beyond their appearance and their fertility is an important part of women being equal in society.

Another former Special Adviser to Michael Gove takes to the pages of the Sunday Times (£) to have a go at Nick Clegg for blocking moves to tackle Islamic extremism. He also criticises Sayeeda Warsi for her role in opposing the measures. I do wish Clegg’s office could actually tackle the issue in their rebuttal, though. This really isn’t helpful:

A source close to Clegg said the deputy prime minister had not heard of Martin and had no interest in his views. “He sounds like a former adviser trying to show off and make a name for himself now he doesn’t have a job,” the source said.

And, finally, we have Desmond Tutu telling Observer readers that we need to look to the fight against apartheid to tackle climate change effectively:

Just as we argued in the 1980s that those who conducted business with apartheid South Africa were aiding and abetting an immoral system, we can say that nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas and human suffering caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions to cut their ties to the fossil fuel industry. To divest, and invest, instead, in renewable energy. To move their money out of the problem and into the solutions. We can urge our governments to invest in sustainable practices and stop subsidising fossil fuels; and to freeze further exploration for new fossil energy sources.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social