Ten Years of Tychy.
At the Hive, everybody was sucking on tiny lollipops and drinking cocktails with Nutella in. Polly had given her sister …
Category Archives: Editorial
“Up At The House”: A User’s Companion.
The new girl was sitting about in the kitchen, unsure of how to help in the running of the household. …
“Up at the House”: Prefatory Noises.
The first episodes of “Up at the House” were written in Lisbon last November, almost all of them in the …
The End of the Fringe: The Reviewers (or “How To Be A Theatre Critic at the Edinburgh Fringe.”)
The Edinburgh Fringe is always filled with injustice and this is usually dispensed by critics whose reviews mix casual cruelty …
(FRINGE INTERVAL) Cojones: An Unmitigated Apology.
Tychy aspires to be a prosateur. Not a journalist or an author, but somebody who specialises in sculpting beautiful prose. …
Corstorphine Hill Mystery Letter.
Here is the text of a handwritten letter which I today found (and left) taped to the bench at the …
Tychy Review of 2012.
So we’ve all made it through 2012 in one piece. Another year the wiser, or else another year more demoralised, …
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’s Independence Referendum.
The Westminster and Holyrood governments have together agreed to hold a legally-binding referendum on Scottish independence before the end of …
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 …
Christian Theology and the Easter Bunny.
The first missionaries to set foot in Anglo-Saxon England attempted to render Christmas and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection satisfactory …
Tychy Review of 2011.
With a chain of unexpected revolutions across the Arab world and popular faith in the European Union plummeting, future historians …
Posts of Christmas Past.
Previous Christmas baubles hauled down from the attic… Readings of Ringstones: A Christmas Story. The Devil on Your Back: A …
“Because Crowdfunding is the Future…”
Tychy appears briefly in the Verkami fundraiser for Ivan Torres’ forthcoming short film “A Third-Hand Richard” (see here). Please visit …
Tychy Time Out.
Tychy is departing for Bologna tomorrow, weather permitting (which is a big ask, as Edinburgh airport has been closed for …
Do not adjust your monitor…
After two years of umming and erring, Tychy has finally abandoned the old Kubrick theme in favour of the more …
