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Podcast: The Bunker â News without the nonsense
Episode: Does the UK face extinction? â Fintan OâToole on the Unionâs future
Description: The UK is âmuddling towards extinctionâ, says the Irish thinker and journalist Fintan OâToole. Neglected by a Westminster political class thatâs preoccupied by Brexit, the things that once held it together are disappearing. He tells Ros Taylor how England is embracing a nationalism it canât articulate, why the SNP has failed to get what it wants, and why the UK is not the natural union that its supporters believe it to be.
âThe UK was not a natural occurrence.â
âEnglishness knows what it is not, but not what it is.â
âWith Brexit, this is always where...