The Scots command the column inches today.

Deboroah Orr writes entertainingly comparing and contrasting Brown and Salmond's first 100 days in power ("These two canny Scots, as they celebrate 100 days in power, have much in common")

The Guardian leader praises Salmond for his first few months in power ("Nervous steps of a nation") before suggesting that things might not be so easy in the future.

On the same pages, a former SNP advisor suggests that Salmond has the talents to weather the future well too ("Governing well is worth a hundred freedom slogans")

Both he and Magnus Linklater in The Times pick up on the implications of a General Election date of the 'Holyrood honeymoon' ("Why England must heed the skirl of the pipes")

"Mr Brown needs most, if not all, of those 39 Labour-held seats at Westminster if he is to win. On present evidence he might not get them."

It looks like we might see out the year without a General Election after all.