Without making any comment on the contents of a book I haven’t read, someone really does need to just sit graphic designers down and clarify what the UK is and is not. I feel confident in assuming that Robert and Kishan’s recommendations do not include restoring the Union of 1801 across all Ireland.

Hello from Tallinn! Including beautiful buildings, modernist stained glass and a superb danse macabre.

It was never my view anyway, but this is a good example of why arguments about the ideological merits of a smaller state are essentially pointless. Demographic, geopolitical and electoral reality mean the state is likely to grow under governments of all types, and the question is what we prioritise.