Gender Recognition Reform: How did Scottish Nationalism ever end up here?
Whenever nations appear, the process is by and large a standardised one. A people become conscious that they are a …
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Arts Review: “Free Original Art” at 62 Augustine’s Street, Norwich.
I had seen the poster in the window of an art-supplies shop on St Benedict’s Street. “Free Original Art” is …
Arts Review: “Come To Your House” by Sara Sallam.
“Come To Your House” is a new mixed-media installation that has been designed by the Egyptian artist Sara Sallam. In …
2022 in the words of Tychy et al.
It is self-evident that Boris Johnson should resign because of the “parties” that his government department had held during the …
Book Review: Harold Wilson, The Winner.
In all likelihood the UK’s next prime minister will be Sir Keir Starmer. Last month, Sir Keir had signalled that …
Nicola Sturgeon Is No Revolutionary.
Yesterday’s ruling at the Supreme Court basically confirms that anybody who had voted for an independence referendum during the last …
A World Without Twitter.
If Jonathan Swift was alive today and he decided to write a grand satire of social democracy, it could not …
Austerity Comes to Scotland.
Somewhere deep in the imagination of every Scottish nationalist exists a thriving and virtuous social democracy. A city upon a …
“Transphobia” in The Female Eunuch and the Story of April Ashley.
Clichés have always bedevilled the feminist Germaine Greer but I have grown interested lately in one that concerns her relationship …
A Chirrup on “Trussonomics.”
No economist was ever going to like the “fiscal event” that has been the first wave of Liz Truss’s magic …
A Second Look At “Ukraine Should Surrender.”
Is there really a military solution to the disaster in Ukraine? Back in March, Tychy didn’t think so and in …
Why Can’t The Queen’s Reign Simply Continue?
The republican’s foremost objection to monarchy should be the sheer miserablism of its implications. According to many of the tributes …
The Boredom of the Emergency.
I think that it was the philosopher Slavoj Žižek who had first likened modern capitalism to a permanent emergency. Certainly …
Podcast Review: Women With Balls (The Kemi Badenoch Edition).
Recently we have had to all learn the name “Kemi Badenoch” and we have been tasked with coming to an …
“Scratching Each Other’s Eyes Out”: Your Guide To The Tory Leadership Race.
“…you have all these candidates scratching each other’s eyes out, taking lumps out of each other,” Sir Keir Starmer rejoiced …
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