Articles by Tom Nairn

• Union on the Rocks?
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR 43, January-February 2007, pp. 117-132
  Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography , Scotland
  

  Tom Nairn on Michael Fry, The Union. Revisiting the circumstances of the UK’s founding pact, amid non-celebrations of the 1707 Treaty of Union and a groundswell of support for Scottish independence.

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• The New Furies
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR 37, January-February 2006, pp. 130-140
  Subjects: Britain , War and Peace
  

  Tom Nairn on Tariq Ali, Rough Music. Britain’s subservient foreign policy and fawning political culture as indices of decline. Terror bombings and the returning furies of Blair’s war.

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• A Myriad Byzantiums
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR 23, September-October 2003, pp. 115-133
  Subjects: Social Theory
  

  After ethnic definitions of collective identity, is a new scenery—hybrid cultures intertwined with a universal genome—becoming visible? Could St John Perse’s cosmopolis on the Bosphorus furnish a template for a world beyond national and multicultural imaginings?

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• Mario and the Magician
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR 9, May-June 2001, pp. 5-30
  Subjects: Britain
  

  British politics under the wand of Redemption, as the new leitmotif of the party system. Similarities and contrasts between the ex-imperial states of UK and France, as New Labour shuffles towards listless re-election.

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• Farewell Britannia: Break-Up or New Union?
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 55-74
  Subjects: Britain , Nationalism
  

  Has the Northern Ireland Agreement injected a fatal shot of constitutionalism into the archaic Ukanian state? Responding to Pocock and Mulhern, Tom Nairn looks forward to a rearrangement of islander relations, but warns that without its own reconstitution England could become a fatally regressive anomaly in the archipelago.

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• Ukania Under Blair
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR 1, January-February 2000, pp. 69-103
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Scotland
  

  Great Britain has finally yielded a parliament to Scotland. But the Labour regime in London still clings convulsively to the totems of Ukania, in Tom Nairn’s savage updating of Robert Musil. New Labour’s eupeptic rhetoric of youth as a sure sign of a system being wheeled into the terminal ward.

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• Reflections on Nationalist Disasters
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/230, July-August 1998, pp. 145-152
  Subjects: Germany , History and Historiography , Nationalism
  

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• Sovereignty After the Election
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/224, July-August 1997, pp. 3-18
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Scotland
  

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• Breakwaters of 2000: From Ethnic to Civic Nationalism
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/214, November-December 1995, pp. 91-103
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Nationalism
  

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• The Sole Survivor
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/200, July-August 1993, pp. 41-47
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Crisis of the British State
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/130, November-December 1981, pp. 37-44
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The House of Windsor
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/127, May-June 1981, pp. 96-100
  Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography
  

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• The Future of Britain's Crisis
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/113-114, January-April 1979, pp. 43-69
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Twilight of the British State
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/101-102, January-April 1977, pp. 3-61
  Subjects: Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Modern Janus
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/94, November-December 1975, pp. 3-29
  Subjects: Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• Scotland and Europe
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/83, January-February 1974, pp. 57-82
  Subjects: Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy , Scotland
  

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• Immigration under Capitalism
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/80, July-August 1973, pp. 111-112
  Subjects: Europe , Work under Modern Capitalism
  

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• The Left against Europe? (Special Issue)
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/75, September-October 1972, pp. 5-120
  Subjects: Britain , Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy , Europe
  

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• British Nationalism and the EEC
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/69, September-October 1971, pp. 3-28
  Subjects: Britain , Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy , Europe
  

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• Enoch Powell: The New Right
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/61, May-June 1970, pp. 3-27
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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• The Fateful Meridian
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/60, March-April 1970, pp. 3-35
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Labour Movements and Parties
  

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• Hornsey
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/50, July-August 1968, pp. 65-70
  Subjects: Britain , Student Movements
  

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• The Three Dreams of Scottish Nationalism
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/49, May-June 1968, pp. 3-18
  Subjects: Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy , Scotland
  

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• Labour Imperialism
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/32, July-August 1965, pp. 3-15
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Labour Movements and Parties
  

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• The Nature of the Labour Party (Part II)
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/28, November-December 1964, pp. 33-62
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Labour Movements and Parties
  

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• The Nature of the Labour Party (Part I)
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/27, September-October 1964, pp. 38-65
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Labour Movements and Parties
  

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• Hugh Gaitskell
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/25, May-June 1964, pp. 63-68
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Britain , Labour Movements and Parties
  

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• The English Working Class
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/24, March-April 1964, pp. 43-57
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Labour Movements and Parties
  

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• The British Political Elite
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/23, January-February 1964, pp. 19-25
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
  

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• Landed England
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/20, Summer 1963, pp. 116-119
  Subjects: Britain , History and Historiography
  

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• Crowds and Critics
  • Tom Nairn

  in NLR I/17, Winter 1962, pp. 24-33
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
  

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