Does the UK face extinction? – Fintan O’Toole on the Union’s future
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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Is It a Paradox of Being So Dominant?
England has not had to define itself because it is consistently and considers itself to be the leading force. The Irish thing, of course, is a holder of the story, but Englishness is dominant. So maybe it didn't have to rethink itself in those terms for a very long time. But when you do get this sort of increased self presentation of Scottish and Welsh and Irish nationalism, that there's then a bit of resentment.
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