This chapter explores representations of cultural and political responses to the pandemic in the devolved nations of the UK. Beginning with a reading of the ‘Seasonal’ quartet by Scottish writer Ali Smith, it argues that Smith’s work cultivates a tacit connection between the handling of Brexit and Covid while also taking on a more explicitly Scottish setting as it progresses, especially in Spring (2019) and Summer (2020). This is done in order to assert a sense of Scotland’s cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the UK, but that sense of cultural difference is also somewhat downplayed in order to minimise the sense of cultural divisions in the aftermath of Brexit. From here, the chapter uses the Northern Irish writer Angela Graham to show how the politics of reconciliation has been even more important in Northern Ireland because her short story collection A City Burning (2020) demonstrates connections between the response to the pandemic and the building of a post-conflict society following the Troubles. By contrast her story ‘The Scale’ is set in South Wales (where Graham lives) and juxtaposes the pandemic with memories of the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike in order to critique how far the public right to protest has been undermined in the years since Thatcherism, which are also the years when neoliberalism became the dominant ideology in Britain. Finally in the case of Robert Minhinnick’s book Delirium (2022) the chapter shows that the pandemic gave rise to the existentialist fear among Welsh writers that Covid would hasten the demise of an older generation of Welsh speakers, with whom Wales’s unique language and culture would be lost.