“The UK” fits our post-imperial state: a stitched-together patchwork of freshly devolved legislatures, shorn of their further collective reach. It is a name that acknowledges the past only through what has been lost. “United Kingdom” was made official in the wake of Ireland’s departure in 1927. Before that, it was merely a descriptor. The initialism of “The UK”, to my mind, is the name of a state so aesthetically, culturally and demographically altered by the effects of mass immigration that it has become a distinct political and cultural entity to Historical Britain. The age of scouring dropdown menus and “UK” international dial-codes. That is why, personally, I love England.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-uk/
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