Author Biography: Tom Nairn (1932–2023) was author of Break-Up of Britain (Verso 1977), After Britain (Granta, 2000) Pariah (Verso, 2002) and Global Matrix (with Paul James, Pluto Press, 2005). He was Professor of Nationalism and Cultural Diversity at the RMIT, Melbourne. His intermittent though longest term home was Livingston, Scotland. He wrote regularly for newspapers and magazines including Arena, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.
