Jan Carson, writer and community facilitator, joins Debates on Europe from Belfast. Speaking about the situation on the ground, Carson reflects on Belfast’s decimated arts community, Northern Ireland’s bolstered binarisms, and the overall state of the United Kingdom: “What we’re looking at is the breakdown of the UK.”
Check the previous articles and video discussion by and with Janet Carson on the impact of Covid-19 on Northern Ireland and the UK.
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