6/21/2023 0 Comments Black Sea by Neal Ascherson![]() ![]() Its presentation of the United Kingdom as an archaic, dysfunctional structure, pre-modern in its foundation and unfit to survive in a post-imperial world, was shocking back then but remains pretty convincing today. It’s more than forty years since The Break-Up of Britain was published. ![]() After his death last month, Tom was mourned as ‘Britain’s most important constitutional thinker’, or ‘Scotland’s greatest political philosopher since Hume and Ferguson’, but it would be truer to his own modesty to turn the figure round: it’s difficult to name anyone who has had more influence on British self-understanding than Tom Nairn. ![]() It’s just the language of the senile Ukanian state which has to believe in its own uniqueness, its non-pareil altitude above comparison. The way post-Brexit British governments insist that every project is ‘world-beating’ or shows ‘global leadership’ made him smile. ![]()
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