Friday Thread: The United Kingdom explained

An ignorance of certain sensitivities has got me into enough trouble in the past when referring to Our wee province / Northern Ireland / Our Occupied Six / OUR wee country / the North of Ireland / Here … er there.

This may help, but I do think that there’s a gap for someone to make a similar video simply explaining … there …. to visitors.

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