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Gender Recognition Reform: How did Scottish Nationalism ever end up here?

January 21, 2023

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.

January 17, 2023

I had seen the poster in the window of an art-supplies shop on St Benedict’s Street. “Free Original Art” is …

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Arts Review: “Come To Your House” by Sara Sallam.

January 4, 2023

“Come To Your House” is a new mixed-media installation that has been designed by the Egyptian artist Sara Sallam. In …

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2022 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 27, 2022

It is self-evident that Boris Johnson should resign because of the “parties” that his government department had held during the …

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Book Review: Harold Wilson, The Winner.

December 2, 2022

In all likelihood the UK’s next prime minister will be Sir Keir Starmer. Last month, Sir Keir had signalled that …

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Nicola Sturgeon Is No Revolutionary.

November 24, 2022

Yesterday’s ruling at the Supreme Court basically confirms that anybody who had voted for an independence referendum during the last …

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A World Without Twitter.

November 12, 2022

If Jonathan Swift was alive today and he decided to write a grand satire of social democracy, it could not …

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Austerity Comes to Scotland.

November 4, 2022

Somewhere deep in the imagination of every Scottish nationalist exists a thriving and virtuous social democracy. A city upon a …

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“Transphobia” in The Female Eunuch and the Story of April Ashley.

October 9, 2022

Clichés have always bedevilled the feminist Germaine Greer but I have grown interested lately in one that concerns her relationship …

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A Chirrup on “Trussonomics.”

October 1, 2022

No economist was ever going to like the “fiscal event” that has been the first wave of Liz Truss’s magic …

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A Second Look At “Ukraine Should Surrender.”

September 24, 2022

Is there really a military solution to the disaster in Ukraine? Back in March, Tychy didn’t think so and in …

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Why Can’t The Queen’s Reign Simply Continue?

September 12, 2022

The republican’s foremost objection to monarchy should be the sheer miserablism of its implications. According to many of the tributes …

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The Boredom of the Emergency.

September 8, 2022

I think that it was the philosopher Slavoj Žižek who had first likened modern capitalism to a permanent emergency. Certainly …

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Podcast Review: Women With Balls (The Kemi Badenoch Edition).

July 21, 2022

Recently we have had to all learn the name “Kemi Badenoch” and we have been tasked with coming to an …

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“Scratching Each Other’s Eyes Out”: Your Guide To The Tory Leadership Race.

July 17, 2022

“…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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