How to Defeat the Scottish Nationalists (Warning: Contains Traces of Machiavellianism).
Could Nicola Sturgeon’s own carelessness have already sown the seeds of her eventual knockout defeat? Here is her in January …
Tag Archives: Brexit
Podcast Review: Quid Pro Euro.
The year is 1995 and the European Union is awakening from history and becoming conscious. It is looking around blearily, …
Book Review: Flights.
Jasmine, the nice Muslim woman I’d spent the whole evening talking to, was telling me about her project: she wanted …
Podcast Review: The World At One.
Ever since the UK’s decision to leave the EU, it has become routine across the media to speak of there …
Boring Snoring Boris Johnson.
Why has a Boris Johnson government turned out to be so colossally boring? It might be somewhat unsettling for us …
“And The Glitter Is Gone”: On How to Leave the EU with Emotional Intelligence.
The sun is setting over New York. We are on a roof, with the horizon at waist level, and with …
Book Review: Mindf*ck.
Christopher Wylie is this bratty young Canadian guy with the pink lid who had “blown the whistle” on the Vote …
2019 in the words of Tychy et al.
A fortnight ago, the Metropolitan police announced they had secured a sentence of nine months in prison for the two …
Where You Belong (a review of GE2019).
‘You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into …
Labour’s “It’s Time For Real Change” is a post-Brexit manifesto.
Brexiteers, or anybody with any lingering attachment to democracy, are likely to be offended by the Labour party’s latest Brexit …
Am I a Liberal? (or, a Book Review of Adam Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities).
Am I a liberal? This might sound like a peculiar question because surely everybody is these days. Even most self-proclaimed …
Vertex Vortex: Jeremy Corbyn’s NHS Paranoia.
One would think that a cliché is untrue simply by virtue of being a cliché. According to the electioneering Labour …
Outsiders and “Rebels” in the Remainer Parliament.
Last week, Rory Stewart was named as our “Politician of the Year.” Needless to say, this did not occur in …
Philip Hammond: A Political Obituary.
With Boris Johnson in, and Theresa May out, it looks like the shaking-all-about might finally loosen one of the UK’s …
Tychy @ the Fringe 2019 Artwork.
Tychy‘s annual investigation of student theatre and new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe begins on July 31. I already feel …
