Book Reviews: Inventing the Future and Creative Destruction.
Cor, I miss the days when that crate was in the air. I can remember staying at me Nan’s in …
Tag Archives: Capitalism
Book Reviews: The Precariat and Rise of the Robots.
A thought experiment to warm up with. Imagine that Google was an entirely corporeal phenomenon, like the National Library of …
A President For All Americans?
Ever since I watched the footage of President Trump’s inauguration last week, some words have been playing distantly in my …
Councillor Matt Kerr: A Working Class Humbug Is Something To Be.
The Universal Basic Income is an idea in search of a home. A UBI would leave everybody in society on …
Book Review – The Corporation Wars: Dissidence.
Now the hurly-burly’s done, or at least now that we are on the sunny side of Brexit, let us catch …
Democracy on Trial: Campaign Butterflies.
The anticipation is immense. The suspense is spellbinding. Although it is conventional to look down upon democracy as being dry …
Democracy on Trial: What is the Correct Marxist Interpretation of Brexit?
A spectre is haunting communism – the spectre of Europe. Lenin would have surely thought the class divide which currently …
Tychy’s Tunis: Advice and Comments on the Medina, from the Roof Terrace of the Café El M’Rabet.
I have climbed up to the very top of the Café El M’Rabet. You have to first venture through a …
Art and Democracy: The Glasgow Effect.
There are two stories in today’s media coverage which show how absurd things can get on the opposite extremes of …
Book Review: A Duty to Offend.
I still have a schoolboy tendency to mumble when faced with a pretty girl. The Blackwell’s till girl smiles with …
Tychy@ the Fringe: RUN.
Engineer Theatre Collective’s “RUN,” which is presently stabled in the Pleasance Courtyard, is an energetic piece of theatre from a …
The Labour Leadership: Should (and Can) a Eurosceptic Stand?
In the history of democracy, 2017 is likely to be a year of profound significance. The UK’s referendum on its …
A Flagship Sunk.
The complaint of the age is that politics is managerial, risk-averse, and wholly lacking in ideas and ideals. You might …
Sea Snake Sunk.
When the Pelamis engineers trundled up in their tugboat on Friday to greet the sea snake, it was gone. At …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (5/5).
The Case for Edinburgh as a City of the Future. The first contribution to this series studied how Scottish nationalism …
