Reading Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris in light of The One Thousand and One Nights.
Eugène Sue’s serialised crime novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842-3) begins with a device that had been treasured by contributors …
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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 …
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 …
Book Review: Ten Days That Shook the World.
Somehow we have all conspired to remember one of the most profound events in human history by gravitating to the …
Catalan Nationalism versus City Statehood for Barcelona.
Catalan independence is still, despite everything, inconceivable. It is still all but a political impossibility. For a start, there is …
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 …
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 …
How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.
Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …
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 …
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: According To His Need.
Nick (Michael-David Mckernan) is your average everyday bloke, or at least he is up to the moment when he joins …
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 …
I’m sorry to break this to you, Alan Bissett, but you are a nationalist.
That isn’t Alan Bissett who is smoking a pipe and ceci n’est pas un nationalist. It’s just the image of …
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 …
