{"product_id":"pariah-isbn-9781859846575","title":"Pariah","description":"\u003ci\u003ePariah\u003c\/i\u003e is a retrospect of Tony Blair’s recent New Labour plebiscite, so far the most absurd ‘election’ of the twenty-first century. After a much-vaunted Constitutional Revolution, overwhelming victory was obtained on less than a quarter of the electoral register, with more people abstaining than voted for Blair. In 2000 the Constitution of the United States collapsed into farce; in 2001 it was the turn of the United Kingdom, as the oldest and most stable of  Western democracies turned into a despised pariah of the global age. ‘How is Britain breaking up?’ asks Tom Nairn. Is there any chance – or indeed any need – of its being repaired?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this corrosive polemic Nairn argues that democratic and constitutional reform alone provides an answer to such questions. But the longer the British \u003ci\u003eancien regime\u003c\/i\u003e endures, the less chance there will be of such changes taking place by agreement. ‘Reform or perish’ is the moral; but perish farther looks like the only way towards reform.\u003cb\u003eTom Nairn\u003c\/b\u003e (1932–2023) was one of the UK’s most gifted left-wing thinkers and a towering radical imagination. His books included \u003ci\u003eThe Break-Up of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Left Against Europe?\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304516407525,"sku":"NP9781859846575","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781859846575.jpg?v=1767734501","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/pariah-isbn-9781859846575","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}