The Effrontery of Gibraltar.
Why don’t we just give the bloody thing back? If you ever want to get to the bottom of the …
Tag Archives: Nationalism
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 …
The Wee Ginger Dug: A Scottish Horror Story for Halloween.
Fergus and Morag MacAskill lived in a large farmhouse some miles down the road from Inverness. They were eager to …
The End of the Road for Nicola Sturgeon.
The thistle has been squashed – the Declaration of Arbroath has melted – Rabbie Burns sounds suddenly like Edward Lear …
Nicola Sturgeon: The Politics of Hate.
Following the Brexit vote, hatred has been unleashed across the nation. Demagoguery is currently at its most nimble, in seeking …
Democracy on Trial: Brexit and the Spirit of Scotland.
On 21 May 1838, at least a hundred thousand trade union members and supporters gathered on Glasgow Green, to listen …
EXCLUSIVE: Another British Empire is Possible.
Tychy today publishes the founding statement of “Another British Empire is Possible.” This new campaign, which aims to get beyond …
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 …
New Year Blockheads.
I will never understand the mentality of blocking. I’m referring to Twitter, incidentally, so if you’re working class or if …
2015 in the words of Tychy et al.
Week 1: Magazine’s editors and staff get No Platformed by the National Union of Students on the grounds that their …
Book Review: Empire of Fear, Inside the Islamic State.
Over a billion pounds of UK international aid is now going to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees, and the …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Chicken
How dare they! An English theatre company cannot come to Edinburgh, where there are all sorts of complex, sophisticated ideas …
Why Greg Moodie Doesn’t Cut It as a Satirist.
If you had to list five hundred words which described Scottish nationalism at the moment, “fun” probably wouldn’t number amongst …
Nausea.
I had previously promised that if the SNP won over fifty parliamentary seats, I would leave the country. So this …
Left-wing Nationalism: The Disaster Continues.
Over its long and demoralising history, the Left has been required to trade in a lot. It has had to …
