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Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.

October 7, 2016

“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …

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Series Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

June 29, 2015

[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy is staunchly pessimistic about BBC television drama and particularly its adaptations of literary classics. It …

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Series Review: Wolf Hall.

February 26, 2015

It’s a lesson which Hilary Mantel should have surely learned along the way. One minute you are at a point …

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TV Review: The Thirteenth Tale.

December 31, 2013

[The following contains spoilers.] Days after pronouncing that the BBC have “lost the knack” of making ghost stories, Tychy is …

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TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.

December 26, 2013

Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …

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“Now over to you at Holyrood”: The White Paper on BBC News 24.

November 26, 2013

BBC News 24 presenter: And now over to Jane Hill at Holyrood for the latest on the launch of today’s …

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Scottish Independence: The Disaster Continues.

August 30, 2013

Tychy has taken a holiday from Scottish Independence over the last month, sojourning in the genuinely “better nation” of the …

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Radio Review: Analysis, Labour’s New New Jerusalem.

May 27, 2013

It may seem a suspicious coincidence that politicians in the middle of a recession have suddenly discovered that welfare is …

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The Lord McAlpine Conundrum in a Nutshell.

November 15, 2012

Our medieval hangover continues and Britain’s leading scandal of the day naturally features two lords. The first is Lord Alistair …

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The Only True Ghost: Scepticism and the Enfield Poltergeist.

February 23, 2012

The word “poltergeist” is taken from the German for “noisy spirit,” and it is characteristically impossible to ignore these troublesome …

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A Beast for our Time.

January 10, 2012

[The following contains spoilers.] Mark Gatiss‘ “The Hounds of Baskerville” was first broadcast on BBC1 on Sunday. Perhaps the smartest …

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A Moment More with “Great Expectations.”

December 30, 2011

A couple of nights ago, Tychy reviewed the BBC’s new adaptation of Dickens’ Great Expectations, rather sinning against the light …

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TV Review: Great Expectations (Episode One).

December 28, 2011

Another Christmas, another pointless and inexorably undistinguished BBC adaptation of a literary “classic.” This time, it’s back to Miss Havisham’s …

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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: Ed Reardon, A Writer’s Burden.

August 16, 2011

Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas) is a grandly established old carthorse from the Radio 4 comedy stables, his show trotting through …

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