Tom Nairn

January 1968: The false consciousness of Scotland

What is Nigel Farage thinking now?

Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.

Anarchy in the “yookay”

How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.

The detective of world history

The New Left thinker Tom Nairn, who has died aged 90, understood the appeal of British identity even as he…

Tom Nairn: The prophet of post-Britain

With the Union on the brink, the radical nationalism of the Scottish intellectual seems more prescient than ever.