SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019SOLID AS A ROCK?
In the latest of his series exploring ideas of place and passage, Will
Gore visits a Welsh cliff-edge and considers the damage that Brexit
could wreak on our union of nations
Rock walls plunge into sea at Cemaes Head (Alamy)
One of the oddities of British life is that being Scottish or Welsh is not only more noteworthy than being
English, it is also more legitimate as a source of pride and purpose.
That is partly because the English are in the majority: celebrating Englishness can all too easily be seen as a
dismissal of those who are not in the ascendency.
What’s more, English nationalism (which admittedly is different to national pride) is more readily associated
with ideas of white supremacy. The nationalist movements in Scotland and Wales are, by contrast, pitched