Rob Nixon
Professor of Environment and Humanities, Princeton University
Rob Nixon is the Currie C and Thomas A Barron Family Professor of the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. His latest book is Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2013).
The English question
Rob NixonA fine, thoughtful essay, especially on the existence of left-wing inflections to English nationalism. But I do question the historical accuracy of the following: “As recently as 1997, a British Social Attitudes survey found that 55 per cent of English voters called themselves British, while just 33 per cent said they were English. But as colonies freed themselves and as Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales increasingly controlled their own futures, the English started to believe that Britain was holding them back too. By 2012, the 22-point gap in the BSA st...