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Tag Archives: Capitalism

How “sensitivity” towards Mrs Twit endangers our understanding of authorship.

February 20, 2023

The publisher Puffin is currently preparing to issue a new edition of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novels. And for the …

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Arts Review: “Free Original Art” at 62 Augustine’s Street, Norwich.

January 17, 2023

I had seen the poster in the window of an art-supplies shop on St Benedict’s Street. “Free Original Art” is …

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A World Without Twitter.

November 12, 2022

If Jonathan Swift was alive today and he decided to write a grand satire of social democracy, it could not …

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Austerity Comes to Scotland.

November 4, 2022

Somewhere deep in the imagination of every Scottish nationalist exists a thriving and virtuous social democracy. A city upon a …

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The Boredom of the Emergency.

September 8, 2022

I think that it was the philosopher Slavoj Žižek who had first likened modern capitalism to a permanent emergency. Certainly …

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YouTube Review: Charles Hoskinson.

June 1, 2022

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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Join Tychy In The Metaverse!

February 18, 2022

This morning, James and I presented ourselves at the front door of a villa in Morningside. James rang the doorbell. …

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Just Let Them In.

November 16, 2021

These days you are able to consume the UK’s media coverage only piecemeal or in dribs and drabs. If you …

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Winners and Losers from Rising Wages and Falling Ones.

October 11, 2021

The three months before June had marked an annual rise of 5.2% in average regular pay, as measured in real …

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Abolish Restaurants or Eradicate Kitchens?

August 21, 2020

There is a chap in the Drouth today, a Glaswegian artist named Hussein Mitha, who is calling for the abolition …

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Book Review: The Arcades Project.

August 7, 2020

Walter Benjamin had collated The Arcades Project [Das Passagenwerk] between 1927 and 1940. It is very much a book that …

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Philip Hammond: A Political Obituary.

July 23, 2019

With Boris Johnson in, and Theresa May out, it looks like the shaking-all-about might finally loosen one of the UK’s …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Adam Smith – The Invisible Hand.

August 15, 2018

The economist and philosopher Adam Smith had lived in Edinburgh’s Panmure House between 1778 and his death in 1790. In …

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Book Review: Who’s Your City?

March 13, 2018

[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …

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Book Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations.

March 12, 2018

[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …

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