There is something slightly strange about watching Westminster discover the virtues of decentralisation.
Scotland therefore has a choice.
It can watch England experiment with new forms of regional government while continuing to operate broadly the same structures created three decades ago. Or it can use this moment to rethink the architecture of government from the bottom up: where decisions are made, who controls resources, how regions are represented, and how citizens exercise meaningful influence over the institutions governing them.
The point of devolution was never simply to move the centre of government from one city to another.
If the argument for bringing power from Westminster to Edinburgh was that decisions are better when they are closer to the people affected by them, then Scotland should be prepared to follow that argument to its logical conclusion.
The next stage of devolution should not be about moving the centre. It should be about making sure there is no single centre at all.