What follows is an initial and provisional assessment of the strengths and weaknesses, ellipses and omissions, and contemporary relevance of the series of texts that have come to be known as the “Nairn-Anderson Theses”.

The key tenets of the “Theses” in my view can be broken up into the three following essential themes.

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