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May 24, 2022Liked by Harry Shukman

People like Tilbrook (and indeed Hitchens Minor) always remind me of those Serb nationalists who regarded the peoples of the other Yugoslav republics as little better than untermenschen, but cheered on their departure so they could narrow what could be acceptable in Serbia, once the centre of the most cosmopolitan and pluralist of Communist states. These people are exactly the same apropos the Scots. They know that Englishness, as a concept, is harder to square with Black pop or science than Britishness is, and they want to provoke the breakup of the UK so they can prevent the broadening and opening of people's lives in England, exactly as the Serb nationalists did with Yugoslavia. They are the reason why Rangers fans may well be little better than fascists in the context of their own society, but in the context of *their* own society the English Left has to regard them as allies of convenience, as it understandably did with the objectively fascist Argentinian junta 40 years ago.

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