What know they of England?
We start the year with the usual problem around unitarization. Not the lumpenproblem of what to do and how to govern the great swathes of retro (not metro) England. The recovery and devolution white paper can, which has been kicked down the road to the year’s end, may resolve this in some dilute form. No, it’s Anglo-Saxon attitudes and the 10 th century unitarisation of England and the inescapable problems jerry-built into the foundations of our ramshackle early modern constitution. Hence the creaking perils of keeping an unhappy domestic union intact one full year after the UK divorced f...