Talking Politics begins a series looking at the future of the UK with Colin Kidd, discussing the origins of the Union and the ideas that underpin it. Is the island of Britain a natural territorial political unit? Is nationalism compatible with Unionism? What changed in the 1970s? And how has the shifting character of the SNP shaped the arguments for and against the Union?
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