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How Britain Ends

English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

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How Britain Ends

Yazan: Gavin Esler
Seslendiren: Robin Laing
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A thoughtful, articulate and important book about the rise of English nationalism and the impending breakup of the United Kingdom from one of the finest BBC journalists of the last twenty years.

How Britain Ends is a book about history, but also about the strange, complicated identity of Britishness. In the past, it was possible to live with delightful confusion: one could be English, or British, Scottish or Irish and a citizen/subject of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain). For years that state has been what Gavin Esler calls a 'secret federation', but without the explicit federal arrangements that allow Germany or the USA to survive.

Now the archaic state, which doesn't have a written constitution, is coming under terrible strain. The English revolt against Europe is also a revolt against the awkward squads of the Scottish and Irish, and most English conservatives would be happy to get rid of Northern Ireland and Scotland as the price of getting Brexit done. If no productive trade deal with the EU can be agreed, the pressures to declare Scottish independence and to push for a border poll that would unite Ireland will be irresistible.

Can England and Wales find a way of dealing with the state's new place in the world? What constitutional, federal arrangements might prevent the disintegration of the British state, which has survived in its present form for 400 years?

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I found this a thoughtful and well researched book. I hope it will be very widely read because it clarifies many confusing issues.
Also, the reader, Robin Laing, has a very pleasing voice.
Gavin Esler has, through his personal experience and ancestry gained many insights into the history and regional factors that have shaped the characteristics of our disparate island nations. I think I have finally understood matters that I have never heard so clearly explained before. It is not a dry academic text but a vibrant book of ideas passionately expressed.
Not just history and analysis but practical suggestions for reform.


A solid five *****

A stylish and very informative book

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Well researched as you would expect from a good journalist Gavin lays out his arguments logically and engagingly, and it is well narrated by Robin Laing.

well argued and we'll read.

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Excellent summary of how the UK is likely to break up due to the incompetence of Cameron, May and Johnson. It offers a federal option which the writer thinks would be the best solution but which is now unlikely. Full of pithy quotes, interesting historical insights and personal views. Well worth reading.

Interesting and thought provoking with pithy points

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Thought provoking and sad to think in equal measures. Thoroughly recommended.

Fingers crossed the it isn’t the end. From a son born from a Scottish mother and English father.

Thought Provoking

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A superb analysis but probably too late to avert the inevitable break up of the UK. The brexit vote has cast competing nationalisms into stark relief and this book charts the path through history to this inevitable outcome with wit and a lightness of touch which kept me coming back to it. While it thoroughly eviscerates the current UK governmental model it also provides well thought out solutions and ideas of how to go forward. Well worth a credit.

Superb analysis

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