A decade on, the question is whether English nationalism is still a force we may have to reckon with. Like most of the British political and intellectual establishments, he did not take English nationalism seriously. English nationalism was and is ambiguous and largely unarticulated. READ MOREBut Brexit was a terrible solution to the problem of English identity. If Brexit meant Scotland and Northern Ireland walking away – and thus the effective end of the UK – so be it.

Source: The Irish Times May 28, 2025 00:31 UTC