Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Sense of Identity of the Indigenous British
2. For My Fellow English
3. On Scottish Nationalism
4. The Politics of British History
5. Why the Northern Ireland Peace Process Must Take So Long
6. The Legacy of John Smith
7. Still Missing: A Public Philosophy for New Labour
8. The Decline of the Political Book
9. Political Reviewing
10. Sassoon's One Hundred Years of Socialism
11. Goldhagen's Willing Executioners
12. Hannaford on Race
13. Multiculturalism
14. Talking to the Loyalist Paras
15. Rethinking Unionism
16. Gellner and Postmodernism
17. Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Time
18. On Isaiah Berlin
19. The Legacy of Laski
20. Shaw as Political Thinker, or the Dogs That Did Not Bark
21. The Complete Orwell
Index