A Flagship Sunk.
The complaint of the age is that politics is managerial, risk-averse, and wholly lacking in ideas and ideals. You might …
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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 …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (4/5).
[Previously on Tychy: (1/5) “The Case for Scottish Nationalism“; (2/5) “The Case for the City-State“; and (3/5) “The Case for …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (3/5).
[Previously on Tychy: (1/5) “The Case for Scottish Nationalism” and (2/5) “The Case for the City-State.”] The Case for the …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (1/5).
The Case for Scottish Nationalism. Every revolutionary movement has to come to terms with the nation. Whenever revolutionaries appeal to …
Book Review: Descent.
[The following contains spoilers.] Ken MacLeod goes to great trouble to try and disqualify his writing as literature. As usual, …
Short Story Review: Tales from the Mall.
Let us begin with the etymology, since every time that I read the word “mall” I want to howl, “IT’S …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Contractions.
Yes, this is what Fringe theatre should be about. Imani Robinson and Thea Hope have got hold of a saucy …
Short Story Review: Teatro Grottesco
[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …
A Political Reading of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Vito Corleone appears to be the founding father of an alternative model of America, in which the power of money, …
The Devil is in the Bagging Area.
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (1/6).
The literary ghost story will never cease to profit from its long-held stake in the popular anxieties pertaining to travelling …
An Open Letter to Ed Miliband.
My dear Ed. I have never met you and unless you are obsessively Googling yourself in the wee small hours, …
Tychy@ the Fringe: (No) Living Room.
The show’s flyer proclaims that “the future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of their dreams” – which …
