Ex BBC Man Gavin Essler | End of UK Looks Inevitable
The slow death of Britain Ex-BBC man GAVIN ESLER now believes that the break-up of the UK is inevitable: Like most Scots of my generation, I have several identities. Born in Scotland, I am from a Scottish and Ulster unionist family stretching back to the 17th Century. I live in England and am a Londoner by choice, although I have lived in all three other capital cities – Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff. I’m Scottish when watching rugby or football, British when watching the Olympics and feel European walking the streets of Berlin, Salzburg or Rome. I place more emphasis on one or other of these identities depending on circumstances. A Scottish friend, who has similarly complicated loyalties and identities – and who voted ‘No’ to independence in the 2014 Scottish referendum – expressed the frustration of many Scots when we met at the time of heated Brexit debates in the summer of 2019. He said to me: ‘Like you, I am Scottish and British and European. But now these bast...
