Regurgitating the Nation: A Measly Opium for the Masses.
What is the difference between “belonging” to a nation and joining a bank? Almost all individuals find themselves relying upon …
Tag Archives: Democracy
Museum Review: Interview with Ankhhor.
This morning I went to the opening of the new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland – “Fascinating Mummies” …
Understanding the Failure of Occupy Edinburgh.
On my way to the Talbot Rice Gallery, I stop off at St Andrew Square to check on the progress …
TV Review: David Miller’s “The Great Tram Disaster.”
Tychy has just returned from a holiday in the Baltic republics prejudiced anew against Edinburgh’s forthcoming tramlines. Latvia has convinced …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Nourish.
When hunger-striking WSPU activists described forced feeding as an “outrage,” they were specifically likening this ordeal to rape. Forced feeding …
Live with Rebekah Brooks in front of the Commons Select Committee.
Committee Chairman, John Whittingdale MP: Allow me to welcome you to this afternoon’s final sitting of the Commons Culture, Media, …
If this is your revolution, then I’d rather read the Sun.
How many voicemail messages does one need to hear before it is possible to come across anything which resembles a …
Arts Review: The Queen Art & Image.
[Warning: the following review may distress those who are unaccustomed to gratuitous personal abuse of our head of state.] A …
Indignados in Edinburgh.
There would be a spontaneous eruption of protest outside the Spanish consulate in the New Town, after 2pm. This must …
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (2/6).
[#1 is here.] Our story begins with Lord Dufferin – or, to give him his full title, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, the …
A Brief Report from the Edinburgh University Anti-Cuts Protest.
I only joined the demonstration organised by the Edinburgh University Anti-Cuts Coalition as it reached Haymarket, on its way to …
Book Review: June Purvis’ Emmeline Pankhurst.
The reader of June Purvis’ Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) – today’s most authoritative account of the Women’s Social and …
An Open Letter to Ed Miliband.
My dear Ed. I have never met you and unless you are obsessively Googling yourself in the wee small hours, …
Life After the Frontier: Hawthorne and Poe’s Homecoming Warriors.
“Poe has no truck with Indians or Nature,” D. H. Lawrence began his 1923 essay on Edgar Allan Poe, “He …
Book Review: Roy Douglas’ Liberals.
In the polling booth this May and wondering which of the extremist parties to waste my vote on, my eye …
