Neil Mackay: England slumbers on while the Union lies on its death bed

A THOUSAND PhDs will be written about the political events of the last few days. Pick your metaphor for change: we’ve stepped over a line in the sand, crossed the Rubicon, found ourselves in uncharted territory. Or, to turn to a rather apt master of language: all has changed, changed utterly. WB Yeats, the poet of Irish revolution, is being quoted across the island of Ireland now as Sinn Fein ends 101 years of unionist domination in the north.

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