Congratulations to Iain Thom from Edinburgh for his superb protest in support of Tibetan nationalists: “I’ll probably get detained by the police and then ejected out of the country but I believe it’s not anywhere near the risk or the fear that Tibetans are living under the occupation of the Chinese government.” In a recent Telegraph article Charles Moore was rather scathing about nationalism: Nationalism is also obsessed with possession. “It’s Scotland’s oil,” says the SNP, as if the benefits of a global industry could all be hoarded north of Hadrian’s wall. “The Malvinas are ours!” say the Argentinians about the Falkland Islands, even though hardly any of them have ever lived there. Robert Mugabe says that land ownership must fit his definition of what is Zimbabwean. Or “Tibet is ours”. Nationalism is about sovereignty,...
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