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...Afterwards, Brown approached the organiser of the event, Anthony Barnett, who recalled: “His first words to me . . . were not about the thousand people but about one: ‘Was Tom Nairn here?’”...
...Nairn....
...With that in mind, Tom Miers’ The Bargain is a good read....
...There’s an old, coffee-ringed copy of Ian Nairn’s Nairn’s London, bulging with his evocative ponderings on architecture, pubs and markets....
...Scottishness was often reduced to biscuit-tin kitsch: kilts, bagpipes and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, what nationalist scholar Tom Nairn called “the vast tartan monster”....
...But they also engage with something the great Scottish theorist of nationhood, Tom Nairn, recognised in the 1970s: that “all nationalism is both healthy and morbid” — fundamentally ambivalent, Janus-faced...
...Sir Danny lost his Westminster seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey in last year’s general election and has since been seeking a new direction....
...The idea that Scottish identity re-emerged after the decline of empire, popularised by left-wing historians such as Tom Nairn, therefore has some logic to it....
...The United Kingdom, especially in the writings of the left-nationalist ideologue Tom Nairn, was an encumbrance on a virile Scotland, an imperial shadow signifying nothing....
...In an address to the SNP conference in 1999, nationalism scholar Tom Nairn described the previous three-century union as having created a “sundered mentality” in the Scots, who were condemned to live in...
...His long-time collaborator, Tom Nairn, who threw his energies behind Scots nationalism, can see a (wholly pro-capitalist) Nationalist party in formal power in Edinburgh....
...Tom Nairn, the Scottish nationalist intellectual, sees it differently. To him, the red uniform symbolises England’s failure to find a post-imperial role....
...Mayo and Nairn expose the ways that companies try to sell to children....
...“We’ve decided to aggressively move more of our higher level jobs, like production managers, higher-level back office functions, and the higher-level development roles, to lower cost locations,” says Tom...
...Our itinerary is flexible but we’re going up to my godmother’s in Nairn, to hook up with some relatives....
...Writers such as Neal Ascherson, Christopher Harvie, Tom Nairn and others united nationalism with different degrees of socialism, creating a culture in which Unionism, and England, were ritually trashed....
...I am reminded of the famous comment by the historian Tom Nairn in 1970, adapted from Diderot: “Scotland will be reborn the day the last minister is strangled with the last copy of the Sunday Post.”...
...These include manufacturers such as The Irish Linen Company, Twyford Bathrooms and linoleum manufacturer Forbo-Nairn or retailers such as Peter Jones, Thomas Goode and General Trading Company....
...This move is a perfect example of what the Scottish academic Tom Nairn once called the “modern Janus”: the ability and necessity of nationalist movements to face backwards towards an idealised historical...
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