Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Tom Nairn is Research Professor in the Politics Department of Durham University and was a Professor of Nationalism and Social Diversity at Austrailia's RMIT 2002 - 2010
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Published in: HomeHooligans of the Absolute: Black Pluto's door after 11 SeptemberThe impulse of the attacks was not confidence but despair – the strike of a miserable old world against the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew faces of nationalism
Around the globe, new forms of governance are being sought to counter-balance the hyper-empire of global capitalism....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill Britain ever shake the ghost of Empire?
Reflections on Jeremy Paxman's book, 'Empire: What ruling the world did to the British'.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Republican Monarchy? England and revolution
The author of the first major contemporary critique of the monarchy looks over his argument as Scotland moves...
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Published in: HomeThe prophet redeemed?Ernest Gellner was a polymath and a public intellectual, a philosopher and defender of modernity. A remarkable...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime to Call it a Day: Sometimes it is right for a country to recognise that its job is done
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel...