Edinburgh: the “20-Minute Neighbourhood” reaches the Lothian Road.
Two weeks ago Edinburgh City Council released a picture of a “boulevard” that would be soon visiting our city. It …
Category Archives: Reflections upon Contemporary Events.
Raab Fallout: Should the UK have a Spoils System?
Yesterday saw the departure of Dominic Raab. The justice secretary and deputy prime minister chose to resign after an investigation …
How “sensitivity” towards Mrs Twit endangers our understanding of authorship.
The publisher Puffin is currently preparing to issue a new edition of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novels. And for the …
The Dawn of Scottish Independence.
Although the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had announced her departure from frontline politics yesterday, in reality she has been protractedly …
Gender Recognition Reform: How did Scottish Nationalism ever end up here?
Whenever nations appear, the process is by and large a standardised one. A people become conscious that they are a …
Nicola Sturgeon Is No Revolutionary.
Yesterday’s ruling at the Supreme Court basically confirms that anybody who had voted for an independence referendum during the last …
Puzzling Over “Edinburgh Uni Sleeps.”
Student life at the University of Edinburgh now and then turns up some quirky little social-media knick-knack. @edisleepzzz is a …
A World Without Twitter.
If Jonathan Swift was alive today and he decided to write a grand satire of social democracy, it could not …
Austerity Comes to Scotland.
Somewhere deep in the imagination of every Scottish nationalist exists a thriving and virtuous social democracy. A city upon a …
A Chirrup on “Trussonomics.”
No economist was ever going to like the “fiscal event” that has been the first wave of Liz Truss’s magic …
A Second Look At “Ukraine Should Surrender.”
Is there really a military solution to the disaster in Ukraine? Back in March, Tychy didn’t think so and in …
My Days-of-Mourning Diary.
This is what it must be like for those people who live in a town at the base of a …
Why Can’t The Queen’s Reign Simply Continue?
The republican’s foremost objection to monarchy should be the sheer miserablism of its implications. According to many of the tributes …
The Boredom of the Emergency.
I think that it was the philosopher Slavoj Žižek who had first likened modern capitalism to a permanent emergency. Certainly …
The Meaning and Significance of Theatre Ghosts.
The Edinburgh Fringe has just ended. Countless theatres are being now cleared away, their rows of chairs are being stacked …
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