Secession Speakeasy #193: A Left-Leaning Writer Says Nothing Can Stop the Breakup of Britain

Released July 28, 2026.

Professor Wall (Grant M. Dahl) and the Secession Minstrel take up Aris Roussinos’s UnHerd essay “Nothing can stop the break-up of Britain,” written after the May elections in which the Scottish National Party stayed the largest party at Holyrood and Plaid Cymru came first in the Senedd and now leads the Welsh government. Roussinos argues that neither Nigel Farage of Reform UK nor Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain can hold the United Kingdom together. The episode aired days after Andy Burnham replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister, and Wall sees no change of direction in him.

Wall finds it telling that a left-leaning journalist now says the union will not last, though he calls it late to the point. He disputes its opening image, a 1990 cartoon by the Serb artist Corax of a man watching a missile on television about to hit his own roof, which Roussinos borrows for a paralyzed Britain. Wall points to the protests, the votes for independence parties, and the English, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish flags going up in place of the Union Jack: “I think there’s actually more activity going on than he gives credit for.” The Minstrel, who suspects Roussinos just liked the cartoon, is “not in favor of bloody revolution” and does not think breaking up every government is better by default. Wall would also prefer a peaceful path but expects some violence, and he hopes London ends up an “island of kings without subjects.”

Also in this episode

• Roussinos’s argument that Reform UK draws strength from the dysfunction it promises to end, a cycle he calls Ulsterization
• Northern Ireland, where Wall sees support for reunification with the rest of Ireland rising since the 2016 Brexit vote, ahead of Assembly elections next year
• Wall’s reading of Thomas Aquinas on kingship, that a people who chose their ruler may replace him when he rules badly
• The English village of Piddington, where 96 percent of voters backed holding a local vote on leaving the United Kingdom

Secession Speakeasy is an independent program produced by Grant M. Dahl. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect those of the Texian Partisan, Texas Nationalist Enterprises, or the Texas Nationalist Movement. Featuring an episode is not an endorsement.