Tom Nairn looks at the effect of globalisation on nationalism and tries to predict what this might mean for the future of the UK

Tom Nairn on Michael Fry’s, The Union. Revisiting the circumstances of the UK’s founding pact, amid non-celebrations of the 1707 Treaty of Union and a groundswell of support for Scottish independence.

Tom Nairn on Tariq Ali, Rough Music. Britain’s subservient foreign policy and fawning political culture as indices of decline. Terror bombings and the returning furies of Blair’s war.

The ice of Britain’s political system is melting. A potent coalition for electoral and constitutional reform is assembling.