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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; a fine name for a country, and almost every word of it is meaningless. United? Consider the gathering separatism of Scotland and Wales, Irish republicanism, the anarchy of the average London bus queue. Kingdom? Queendom in fact. In any event, how long can its soiled monarchy survive? Great? Fifty years ago, 800 million people lived in colonies under the British flag. Soon - after Hong Kong reverts to China - there will be 168,000. Northern Ireland? Bloodily divided by its union with the above. This issue of Granta looks at a country…mehr

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; a fine name for a country, and almost every word of it is meaningless. United? Consider the gathering separatism of Scotland and Wales, Irish republicanism, the anarchy of the average London bus queue. Kingdom? Queendom in fact. In any event, how long can its soiled monarchy survive? Great? Fifty years ago, 800 million people lived in colonies under the British flag. Soon - after Hong Kong reverts to China - there will be 168,000. Northern Ireland? Bloodily divided by its union with the above. This issue of Granta looks at a country that has rarely been so nervous - don't mention the beef - or so fundamentally troubled. What happened to us? Is this a nation, a way of life, saying farewell to itself?
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Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He is working, not very quickly, on a book about the River Clyde.