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Tag Archives: Democracy

Regurgitating the Nation: A Measly Opium for the Masses.

May 2, 2012

What is the difference between “belonging” to a nation and joining a bank? Almost all individuals find themselves relying upon …

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Museum Review: Interview with Ankhhor.

February 11, 2012

This morning I went to the opening of the new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland – “Fascinating Mummies” …

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Understanding the Failure of Occupy Edinburgh.

February 8, 2012

On my way to the Talbot Rice Gallery, I stop off at St Andrew Square to check on the progress …

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TV Review: David Miller’s “The Great Tram Disaster.”

October 17, 2011

Tychy has just returned from a holiday in the Baltic republics prejudiced anew against Edinburgh’s forthcoming tramlines. Latvia has convinced …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Nourish.

August 26, 2011

When hunger-striking WSPU activists described forced feeding as an “outrage,” they were specifically likening this ordeal to rape. Forced feeding …

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Live with Rebekah Brooks in front of the Commons Select Committee.

July 19, 2011

Committee Chairman, John Whittingdale MP: Allow me to welcome you to this afternoon’s final sitting of the Commons Culture, Media, …

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If this is your revolution, then I’d rather read the Sun.

July 16, 2011

How many voicemail messages does one need to hear before it is possible to come across anything which resembles a …

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Arts Review: The Queen Art & Image.

June 27, 2011

[Warning: the following review may distress those who are unaccustomed to gratuitous personal abuse of our head of state.] A …

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Indignados in Edinburgh.

May 21, 2011

There would be a spontaneous eruption of protest outside the Spanish consulate in the New Town, after 2pm. This must …

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Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (2/6).

November 28, 2010

[#1 is here.] Our story begins with Lord Dufferin – or, to give him his full title, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, the …

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A Brief Report from the Edinburgh University Anti-Cuts Protest.

November 24, 2010

I only joined the demonstration organised by the Edinburgh University Anti-Cuts Coalition as it reached Haymarket, on its way to …

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Book Review: June Purvis’ Emmeline Pankhurst.

October 4, 2010

The reader of June Purvis’ Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) – today’s most authoritative account of the Women’s Social and …

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An Open Letter to Ed Miliband.

September 27, 2010

My dear Ed. I have never met you and unless you are obsessively Googling yourself in the wee small hours, …

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Life After the Frontier: Hawthorne and Poe’s Homecoming Warriors.

July 6, 2010

“Poe has no truck with Indians or Nature,” D. H. Lawrence began his 1923 essay on Edgar Allan Poe, “He …

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Book Review: Roy Douglas’ Liberals.

June 15, 2010

In the polling booth this May and wondering which of the extremist parties to waste my vote on, my eye …

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