Tom Nairn Explained Why Britain’s Constitution Stifles Democracy

An old joke starts with a British, a French, and a German socialist in a bar, discussing how to start the revolution. The Frenchman insists they should immediately set off to stir up the masses, build barricades all over the city, and storm Parliament. The German disagrees, “Comrade, surely we must first theoretically reorient the […]

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