The Hilarity of TTIP.
A glacier is poised to roll over Europe. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – known affectionately as TTIP – …
Tag Archives: Opinion
On the Moral Status of Irn-Bru.
This could be the greatest political crisis that Scottish Labour has ever faced. In fact, knowing Scottish Labour, it probably …
A Flagship Sunk.
The complaint of the age is that politics is managerial, risk-averse, and wholly lacking in ideas and ideals. You might …
An Argument for Plain Packaging.
We are, it seems, like monkeys. Cigarette packets are shiny and they have bright colours and so when we’re clambering …
Funtime.
“We’ve got to stand up for the right to take the piss out of these monsters, these fools, these posturing …
Letter: Ban Alcohol Advertising in Sport.
[Tychy has today received a letter from a group of medical leaders, public health campaigners and health charities calling for …
A Warm Welcome to Jim Murphy.
Tychy opposes the idea that what the Left really needs at this point in the coma is a nationalist revival. …
End Our NHS.
The UK Shadow Secretary of State for Health. The Labour movement is hurtling headlong into next year’s general election with …
Sea Snake Sunk.
When the Pelamis engineers trundled up in their tugboat on Friday to greet the sea snake, it was gone. At …
Thornberry Snobbery: A Drop in the Ocean.
On the eve of last week’s Rochester and Strood by-election, the Labour shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry tweeted a photograph …
Darek Fidyka: the Polish Factor.
One of the features of Darek Fidyka’s extraordinary story which has excited less remark in recent days is that the …
#Indyref Epilogue.
Scotland voted No last week, but I suppose that it could have been worse. The 19th September was a terrible …
#Indyref Anguish: Failed State.
So yesterday an independent Scotland died in the street, butchered by a mob. And I snuck in amongst the throng …
#Indyref Anguish: History Repeating.
Is the independence referendum which is taking place today really so historically unique or significant? One of the tasks which …
#Indyref Anguish: The Unnamed Wilderness.
On the 30th August, Hampshire police obtained a European arrest warrant for the parents of a severely ill five-year-old boy …
