The Retrial of Meursault.
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. Had Samuel Smiles been ever asked …
[SCENE: The BrewDog on the Cowgate, an apparently half-dismantled bar with bare brickwork on the walls and a stripped-away ceiling. …
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
How can James Kirchick apprehend the “end of Europe” when he has no ready starting-point? What exactly is ending and …
[SCENE: The Caley Picture House. James, Tychy, Pablo, and Tori are drinking in one of those stylish wooden alcoves.] Tychy …
Catalan independence is still, despite everything, inconceivable. It is still all but a political impossibility. For a start, there is …
Why don’t we just give the bloody thing back? If you ever want to get to the bottom of the …
Ever since I watched the footage of President Trump’s inauguration last week, some words have been playing distantly in my …
Fergus and Morag MacAskill lived in a large farmhouse some miles down the road from Inverness. They were eager to …
The thistle has been squashed – the Declaration of Arbroath has melted – Rabbie Burns sounds suddenly like Edward Lear …
Following the Brexit vote, hatred has been unleashed across the nation. Demagoguery is currently at its most nimble, in seeking …
On 21 May 1838, at least a hundred thousand trade union members and supporters gathered on Glasgow Green, to listen …
Tychy today publishes the founding statement of “Another British Empire is Possible.” This new campaign, which aims to get beyond …