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John Downing
Opinion
Everything points to a Scottish ‘date with fate’ which will have major impact here
In some 40 years of paying the rent by my scribbles, writing about a united Ireland was what I’ve often called “an Easter story”. It was more usually something which theoretically examined aspirational nationalist claims about things which were, at kindest estimate, a matter for the distant future, or more harshly treated as plain fantasy.
