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@simon_brooke Indeed, #MikeSmall does great work both as a writer and as editor of the wonderful @BellaCaledonia. Bella is one of the key forums for cerebral analysis of the independence movement and the breakup of #UKania.

I also owe Mike a huge personal debt for his gentle encouragement of my […]

Late Britain The Prince Andrew scandal is only the latest crisis of legitimacy for the British state. It's being presented as a personal tragedy when it's a profoundly political one.

Excellent, timely work by #MikeSmall on the spiralling crisis of feudal relic that increasingly fails to bind the so-called "United Kingdom".

I enjoyed Mike's implicit nod to Betjeman's magnificent 1973 snark at "a tradition that stretches back to 1952".
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