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This article originally appeared on The Critic on 18 September 2026.  On 14th September, the leaders of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin met in Cardiff to sign a memorandum calling on Westminster to “prepare, plan and facilitate constitutional change in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland”

This article originally appeared on The Spectator on 2 September 2026.  Gordon Brown spent much of his political career arguing passionately that Scotland should remain within the United Kingdom...

The debate about Northern Ireland’s future is often framed through two long-standing traditions: unionism and nationalism. While frequently discussed as political positions, they are also identities shaped by history, culture and belonging.

A reply to Ben Collins, The Irish Unity Dividend (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2025). Ben Collins has transitioned from unionism to Irish republicanism. That is, from feeling primarily British to feeling exclusively Irish and wishing to change his citizenship on the back of it

The official name of the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They were united by the Act of Union in 1800. One of its chief promoters was Robert Viscount Castlereagh, Chief Secretary of Ireland, later State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (1812-1822).

This is a book of capital importance. Professor Sloan is a seasoned traditional historian (which is a compliment); and this work is evidently the fruit of many years of mining a mixture of hitherto insufficiently exploited public records as well as, for the modern period, oral sources hitherto not used.

It is difficult to trace the exact origin of "Unionism", not just within mainland UK but the island of Ireland. A good start is to look at 1542 when Henry VIII removed the influence and control of the Pope, declaring himself and successors as "King of Ireland"...

When we formed United In Britain / No! Cymru Campaign, we did it as it became crystal clear that there was an awful lot of one-sided misinformation being spread across Wales, it was in many ways completely untrue, designed to give credibility to their campaign to Break Up Britain...

As another tumultuous year from a geopolitical perspective draws to a close and we look forward to the Christmas Season, I suggest it would be prudent to candidly assess how strong or fragile is the Union of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom and what can we realistically do to strengthen it?