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Life is pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Tom Nairn

Born: February 6, 1932 (age 90)
Bio: Tom Nairn is a Scottish political theorist and academic. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. He is 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)