A change is coming...whichever way you look at it.

When I covered the preliminary of this IPPR report at the beginning of the year, the two main points I felt were "40% of MPs agreed that England had lost out because of devolution to the other nations of the United Kingdom" and "only 22% of MPs believed Scotland would separate from the rest of the UK within the next 50 years".

The Daily Telegraph, however this morning in taking a different tack, has just delivered Mr Salmond a nice slice of manna from heaven for his Monday breakfast:

Tory MPs tell David Cameron: Cut Scotland's subsidy

Well, actually:

"Seventy two per cent of Tory MPs in the poll said they believe that England is 'losing out' because of devolution to Scotland and Wales" and "Seventy four per cent of Conservatives said the current system for distributing money around the UK is unfair on England."

Which obviously isn't so much of a "screamer" aimed fair and square at the Telegraph's typical reader, but, nevertheless, is a fairer summary of the analysis contained in the report.

Probably the balanced analysis of all, though, comes (not surprising) from the authors of the report, Guy Lodge and Michael Kenny. Rather than the headline-grabbing "English Tories to nick money from Scotland", they have instead concentrated on the constitutional side of things, the democratic deficit that asymmetrical devolution has thrown up:

Only 1 in 10 MPs supports the status quo (the present system of governance). If the Conservatives win the election, the pressure on David Cameron to address the 'English question' will be particularly intense, although across all the main parties there is a strong feeling that inaction is no longer an option