How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.
Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …
Tag Archives: Racism
Tunisia: Getting Down To Business.
“Is there anything wrong with this page?” The UK FCO’s Travel Advice on Tunisia. Over April, Tychy ran a series …
The Massacre of the Agency Workers.
Tycienski herded most of the stunned agency workers through the kitchen door and out into the night. The workers were …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Mountaintop.
This production of “The Mountaintop,” which is currently established at Venue 13 in the Canongate, provides us with access to …
Is Atticus Still Atticus? (A Review of Go Set A Watchman.)
Let us start by considering the dubiousness of all this. Go Set A Watchman is a radical first draft of …
The Armchair.
The agency deployed its workers throughout a broad chain of hospices and care homes, rather like a militaristic empire sending …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Blood Orange.
An expedition to the Summerhall is still always very exciting, even though it is over a year since this venue …
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UKIP.
Should my website come out as an open supporter of the UK Independence Party? Should I train this mighty cannon …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Beijing Cake.
[The following was posted on Facebook and Twitter by an anonymous audience member.] I cannot contain myself any longer! I …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Nirbhaya.
Sometimes a split-second decision can change your life. On 16 December 2012, the 23 year old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Diablo.
Although some shows had started yesterday, the Fringe does not officially begin until tomorrow. At C Aquila, where I have …
Trams to the Slaughter.
I sometimes drop into Broomhouse public library whenever I have an hour or two spare between shifts. You are unlikely …
Farage in Scotland: The Rough Wooing.
Yesterday a politician from a party with no elected representatives in Scotland ended up squabbling with around fifty students outside …
Readings of Ringstones: Calmahain.
[Tychy has previously written about “A Christmas Story,” “Capra” and “The Khan.” Ed.] Sarban’s Ringstones and Other Curious Tales (1951) …
The Hobbit: A Tale for Our Time.
[Scene: Bag End in Hobbiton. Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is padding around his front porch. There is a knock on …
