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'Changed, changed utterly ...' has to be the verdict on UK perspectives following Tony Blair's departure. W. B. Yeats' words were for the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, but apply no less today. Terrible beauties are once more being born, without the violence of those times, yet just as irreversibly: in Scotland most obviously, and also in Wales, Northern Ireland and (I suspect) soon in England itself. As I speak, the leader of the Scottish National Party is setting up the first democratically elected government ever, in Edinburgh. Plaid Cymru, the corresponding Welsh national movement, is pondering its decisive role in the Welsh Assembly. In both countries the New Labour Party that effectively kept the Kingdom united has been resoundingly defeated. And as everybody knows, Gerry Adams and the Reverend Ian Paisley have reached agreement on running...
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