The Retrial of Meursault.
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
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Army in Place.
There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …
Postscript: Layton Williams and what to do when things go wrong at the Edinburgh Fringe.
During this year’s Fringe, there was a spot of trouble in paradise. Layton Williams, a 23-year-old actor and performer, was …
The Windrush Scandal: British Citizenship Should Become Unconditional After Three Years.
Callooh! Callay! for the UK’s Antillean migrants. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised this afternoon that their applications for British …
A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.
“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …
Introducing the Detective.
The house looked immediately like a stroke of mischief. It was from the late-Victorian period and so symmetrical that it …
The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Fall.
[Seven actors from the University of Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre Centre enter. They march, dance, and sing.] Cleo Raatus: I …
Book Review: Riotous Assembly.
Tom Sharpe’s fiction can be compared to the single-wheeled electric scooter – a fantastic invention and widely admired, but one …
Trashing Tunisia.
Whenever history is written, some voices are carefully remembered and others are not fished back up from out of the …
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 …
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 …
