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 …
Tag Archives: Capitalism
Arts Review: “Free Original Art” at 62 Augustine’s Street, Norwich.
I had seen the poster in the window of an art-supplies shop on St Benedict’s Street. “Free Original Art” is …
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 …
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 …
YouTube Review: Charles Hoskinson.
If the economy was a ten-year-old girl then it might have recently experienced something akin to an exorcism of its …
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This morning, James and I presented ourselves at the front door of a villa in Morningside. James rang the doorbell. …
Just Let Them In.
These days you are able to consume the UK’s media coverage only piecemeal or in dribs and drabs. If you …
Winners and Losers from Rising Wages and Falling Ones.
The three months before June had marked an annual rise of 5.2% in average regular pay, as measured in real …
Abolish Restaurants or Eradicate Kitchens?
There is a chap in the Drouth today, a Glaswegian artist named Hussein Mitha, who is calling for the abolition …
Book Review: The Arcades Project.
Walter Benjamin had collated The Arcades Project [Das Passagenwerk] between 1927 and 1940. It is very much a book that …
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: Adam Smith – The Invisible Hand.
The economist and philosopher Adam Smith had lived in Edinburgh’s Panmure House between 1778 and his death in 1790. In …
Book Review: Who’s Your City?
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
Book Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations.
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
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