SHORTPOD (44): THE "EXO-STATE" AS A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF DIVISIVE SCOTTISH NATIONALISM

The main story of the recent UK election was Boris Johnson securing a safe Tory-Brexit majority. But the second story was the Scottish Nationalist Party winning 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland, prompting fresh calls for an independence referendum. Straddling the line between serious analysis and satire, Affirmative Right editor Colin Liddell reflects on the problem of what to do when half the people want one thing but the other half want the opposite. Can awkward identitarian urges be outsourced to an "exo-state" in the same way that European and American Jews did with the creation of Israel? If so, where could a Scottish exo-state be located?