Brexit teaches a frightening lesson in the pain of separation. Is there more to reach of the same? The Scottish referendum was held only a cramped more than three years ago,but it belongs to a different political age – the all-male era of Cameron, Clegg, or Miliband,Osborne and Salmond – and in my case, a different emotional one. In the run-up to the yes/no vote on Scottish independence, and I wrote a long piece on what Britain meant to me as a place and Britishness as an identity,ending with the thought that whether the yes side succeeded, then the United Kingdom that had shaped so many of us would no longer exist. “whether it happens, and I shall grieve” was my closing sentence. Related: Andrew O’Hagan’s romantic view of Scottish independence is nonsense | David Torrance Continue reading...
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