No, not the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.I mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Actually, that's not what I mean.What we want is the United Kingdom of Ireland and Great Britain.Capital to be Dublin. Finance Minister to be Irish.

Gerry Hassan has given Gordon Brown a right good savaging over at Our Kingdom: As any schoolchild should know the United Kingdom is not a nation, but a state made up of four nations. The United Kingdom is a “nationless state”. Does not this basic failure to understand the UK tell us something about Brown and

"This is also not a debate, as has been falsely claimed, about extending laws which apply in one part of the United Kingdom to another." Iris Robinson on the extending of a law (the 1967 Abortion Act) which applies in one part of the United Kingdom to another. Unfortunately as the Guardian is reporting this morning, it looks very unlikely that a debate, never mind vote, will even be held on the su...

Carrying a vote of No Confidence after defeat on a major issue in the Commons is the standard way of forcing the relinquishing of power by a prime minister in the United Kingdom Parliament. Canada, whose parliamentary democracy is modelled on that of the United Kingdom, has just had its Parliament prorogued by the Governor-General who represents the Head of State Queen Elizabeth II. This has been ...

I have long thought, first, that the United Kingdom has for some time been heading towards being the Non-United Kingdom, and second, that this would probably be a very good thing. If such a separation is indeed happening, then what is causing it is the end of the British Empire. That and what followed around half a century later (i.e. around now), probably as an inevitable next step, namely the ab...

What a pathetic little country the United Kingdom has become, the mass media has painted itself green and is wetting itself, doing all it can to help force an election recount in Iran, which if they have there way will place a man in the Iranian Presidency who when Prime Minister oversaw the mass murder of his political opponents. Whilst they are doing this they see no contradiction in the fact th...

Do you need a manifesto? This one is worthy of perusal.

Now, as you know, I’m a supporter of the banning of active and proselytising bigots from the United Kingdom. I acknowledge that, in these days of Skype, such a governmental act is essentially symbolic in nature, only. Nevertheless, when the Home Secretary sends one of her famous letters out, she is marking in the most

The Queen has indicated her concern the United Kingdom will be broken up in the wake of Alex Salmond's landslide election victory in Scotland, it was reported yesterday (sun).

Returning to the "othering" of Gaeldom in Scotland, and also in Ireland, the partition of the United Kingdom in 1922 destroyed the partnership between Highland and Irish land reformers, which would have had a knock-on effect throughout the United Kingdom as the results of their much better-organised agitation bore legislative fruit at Westminster. You might argue that there would have been separat...