When I was a child, my parents would bring me to commemorative Republican ceremonies, where I’d be invariably assured by older attendees that I would live to see an independent Ireland. Their imaginations may have been too limited. As time has gone on, I’m increasingly of the mind that I will live to see an independent England.
The success of Reform in last week’s local elections dominated news headlines to the detriment of developments on Britain’s “Celtic arc”: the collapse of the traditional unionist parties to the benefit of separatist Plaid Cymru and the Scottish Nationalist Party.
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