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Not a day to celebrate
Union Jack Originally uploaded by Orange Sweets. Where are the flags? Why is today not a bank holiday in Great Britain? Today is the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England (with Wales)...
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How Thatcher destroyed the coalition of nations
Anti-Margaret Thatcher badge, a photo by dannybirchall on Flickr. Did Margaret Thatcher create the current independence movement in Scotland? I was intrigued by a blog post on the pro-independence blog...
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Focusing on London
233/365 Washed Up, a photo by thebarrowboy on Flickr.There’s an interesting article by Larry Elliott in The Guardian today. He neatly sums up why Margaret Thatcher was a disaster north of the...
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The positive case for the Union in 1707
Imperial Wine Gallon, 1707, a photo by east_lothian_museums on Flickr.When Better Together and other unionists are asked to present the positive case for the Union, they tend to struggle. Most of the...
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Real home rule
Tory anti-Home Rule poster by Plashing Vole, on Flickr.I’ve been wondering for a while whether modern Scottish Labour Unionists are right when they invoke the struggle for home rule by the founders of...
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Why we’re in a hurry
Photo by Gertrud K. History seems to develop in sudden bursts (the punctuated equilibrium theory) – nothing happens for decades, and suddenly everything changes at once. For instance, the map of Europe...
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Francis Fukuyama’s children
The historian Robert Saunders tweeted a great thread yesterday about the world view of the Tory Brexiteers. Here it is: One of the stranger assumptions of the Brexit debate was that we live in an age...
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