Farage in Scotland: The Rough Wooing.
Yesterday a politician from a party with no elected representatives in Scotland ended up squabbling with around fifty students outside …
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Readings of Ringstones: Calmahain.
[Tychy has previously written about “A Christmas Story,” “Capra” and “The Khan.” Ed.] Sarban’s Ringstones and Other Curious Tales (1951) …
The Hobbit: A Tale for Our Time.
[Scene: Bag End in Hobbiton. Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is padding around his front porch. There is a knock on …
Dancing with Liberty: The Show Must Go On.
The city was in festival and the pressure group “Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid” was preparing a noisy boycott of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: I Heart Hamas.
Jennifer Jajeh does not heart Hamas. She is barely Palestinian. Her show “I Heart Hamas” is currently established at the …
Liberty for Liam Stacey.
Two Saturdays back, the Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed with a heart attack during an FA quarter final match …
Readings of Ringstones: Capra.
When Sarban‘s Ringstones and Other Curious Tales was published in 1951, the collection was generally well-received, with the sole exception …
The Little Fascist.
I had not spoken with my old friend Charlotte for over two years, and, with a mild surprise at how …
Noctes Ambrosianae (16).
[SCENE: The Cloisters.] Tychy: Out of all of the documents which you have asked me to read in preparation for …
That Difficult Second Novel.
I have always included Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird within a tradition of shallow protest novels – books by …
The BNP on Question Time: What may happen.
[Scene: The Question Time studio. The audience are furious that the fascist warmonger Jack Straw has been invited on to …
Bleaching “The Birth-mark”: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s warning to America’s abolitionists.
I was recently reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-mark,” which was first published in the Pioneer in 1843, and I was …
Tychy@ the Fringe: King of the Gypsies.
Festival Review is going badly: a Trojan virus is now orchestrating a crescendo of annoyances across my computer (repeatedly restarting …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Self-Murder.
The Tychy rapier is still being sharpened on the Edinburgh Fringe, but my laptop is presently being chewed up by …
Insightful Cynicism: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the …
