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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose three pieces from The Spectator and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Oscar Edmondson and on the podcast this week.

Jenny McCartney argues that tomorrow belongs to Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland.

What could this mean for reunification?

Then, Dan Hitchens asked why Oxford killed a much-loved Catholic college.

And finally, Gus Carter reads his notes on the tabletop game Warhammer.

Up first, Jenny McCartney.

Where can Alster Unionism go now?

If it were a person, it would be someone in the grip of a long depression,

whose occasional bursts of anger mask the fact that they so often feel despondent and betrayed.

The widespread reaction to the latest Northern Ireland census,

in which Catholics narrowly outnumber Protestants for the first time, is unlikely to give it a reason to be cheerful. A jubilant Michel O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice leader, was quick to claim

that historic change is happening across this island, while other party

members called for a referendum on unity. The rallying cry of Sinn Féin has long been Chaka Arla,

which translates as our day will come. In the zero-sum game of Northern Irish politics to Unionist aires, it also translates as,

Your Day is Over. As with most things in Northern Ireland, of course, the census results are more complex than they seem.

The fact that 45.7% identify as Catholic or from a Catholic background, next to 43.5% from Protestant and other Christian backgrounds, doesn't directly correlate to a majority for a United Ireland.

The number of non-believers is growing, recalling that old joke, are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?

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