Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Tom Nairn

Born: February 6, 1932
Died: January 21, 2023 (aged 90)
Bio: Tom Nairn was a Scottish political theorist and academic. He was an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. He was known as an essayist and a scholar of nationalism.
Known for:
- The Break-Up of Britain (1977)
- Faces of Nationalism (1997)
- The enchanted glass (1988)
- After Britain (2000)
- Global Matrix (2005)