http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/paul_laity en http://www.newstatesman.com/200605080041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200605080041 Mon, 08 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT Paul Laity The Union Jack: the story of the British flag Nick Groom Atlantic Books, 396pp, £16.99 ISBN 1843543362 It would be wrong for Britain to embrace American-style patriotism. While the US Stars and Stripes symbolises Enlightenment rationalism, the Union Jack will always be a remnant of empire

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200510170044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200510170044 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Paul Laity The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian world Dane Kennedy Harvard University Press, 354pp, £17.95 ISBN 0674018621

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200410040045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200410040045 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT Paul Laity The Last English Revolutionary: a biography of Tom Wintringham Hugh Purcell Sutton, 288pp, £20 ISBN 0750930802

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