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The Sturgeon-Salmond Feud Threatens to Capsize Scottish Nationalism

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½March 5, 2021

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Most nationalist movements wait until they have achieved independence before having a civil war over who runs the country. But Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have jumped the gun by opening hostilities while Scottish self-determination is still well over the horizon. Could it remain an unattainable goal thanks to the open warfare between the past... Read More

The Scottish Independence Movement Will Now be Very Difficult to Stop

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½January 30, 2021

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Predictions of the break-up of the UK may be reaching a crescendo, but they are scarcely new. In 1707, Jonathan Swift wrote a poem deriding the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which had just been passed, for seeking to combine two incompatible peoples in one state: â€œAs if a man in making posies/... Read More

A Tartan Tyranny

Censorship and Silence in the Virtue-Signalling Scottish Police State

Tobias Langdon •ï¿½November 28, 2018

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Race isnâ€™t a social construct, but hereâ€™s something that is: the so-called United Kingdom. In fact, itâ€™s precisely because race exists that the U.K. is a construct rather than a nation. The native Whites of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are genetically distinct, which is why those regions are all genuine nations (ultimately from Latin... Read More

Is a UK Crackup Ahead?

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½May 12, 2015

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David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher. Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain's secession from the European Union. How did Cameron's Tories capture their majority? First, they compiled a strong record to run on. More critically, they attacked... Read More

Modern States Are Fragile in the Face of Local Nationalism

It is striking how little political resistance has been offered to the break-up of the Union

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½May 10, 2015

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I have spent most of my working life writing about countries where communal or nationalist differences determine and, on occasion, convulse the political landscape. My first experience of this was at Queenâ€™s University Belfast, where I was writing a PhD on the Irish Home Rulers in Ulster pre-Irish independence, during the worst years of the... Read More

Scotland: The Hole in the Lifeboat

If there is hope for England, it lies with the separatists.

John Derbyshire •ï¿½September 18, 2014

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An opinion journalist is expected to take a stand on newsy issues, even ones he doesnâ€™t much care about. This is especially so when the issue relates to the British Isles and the journalist podcasts with a British accent; to be precise in my particular case, a mid-20th-century educated-lower-lower-middle-class East Midlands accent. So, all right,... Read More

Giving the Sassenachs a Big Scare

Eric Margolis •ï¿½September 13, 2014

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â€œAch, the Sassenachs (English) be greetâ€™in and gurnâ€™in (moaning, groaning, wailing) most mightily.â€ Every so often, the Scots like to rise up and give the Sassenachs a big scare. Next week, they are threatening to break their union with England and Wales which has been in effect since 1707. The United Kingdom may be no... Read More

Scotland the Brave

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½July 23, 2010

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Forget Yemen and Somalia. Scotland is the next front in the Global War on Terror, or is it overseas contingency operations? The Wall Street Journal reported today: "Scotland's government has rebuffed a U.S. Senate committee request to send two Scottish officials to testify next week at a hearing that will explore the country's release last... Read More

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