Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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)