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# Tom Nairn blogs Brown
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/tom-nairn-blogs-brown/
- Published: 2007-06-24T16:06:25.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:36:32.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourk/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** On Friday Tom Nairn decided he has to raise a yet another glass to the modern world and start [a blog](http://web.mac.com/tomnairn/iWeb/Site%203/Blog/9DB6F5B2-0AEE-494B-9CAF-98E37E2B8B7F.html?ref=opendemocracy.net). In it he turns to Brown in a post called 'Their Kingdom" (ouch!) What Gordon is looking for, Nairn argues, is "A new National Government: the principal 20th century palliative for crises and emergencies. Some cross-partyism is required again, to save Britishness. This is why he has lurched so suddenly towards the Lib-Dems, and in effect invited them into informal coalition. He was indicating that higher necessities must now take over — higher even than those of the Party, his normal modus operandi".

And this is what Brown told Jon Soper today in the [Politics Show](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics%5Fshow/default.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) interview I discuss below, "The challenge of modern politics is to build a sense of national purpose… the role I have got to play is to bringing people together to make sure we Britain has a strong sense of national purpose as other countries do".