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Book Review: Riotous Assembly.

May 19, 2017

Tom Sharpe’s fiction can be compared to the single-wheeled electric scooter – a fantastic invention and widely admired, but one …

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Democracy on Trial: Brexit and the Spirit of Scotland.

June 8, 2016

On 21 May 1838, at least a hundred thousand trade union members and supporters gathered on Glasgow Green, to listen …

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EXCLUSIVE: Another British Empire is Possible.

May 28, 2016

Tychy today publishes the founding statement of “Another British Empire is Possible.” This new campaign, which aims to get beyond …

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Tunisia: Getting Down To Business.

May 6, 2016

“Is there anything wrong with this page?” The UK FCO’s Travel Advice on Tunisia. Over April, Tychy ran a series …

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Democracy On Trial Artwork.

March 12, 2016

“Democracy on Trial” will be the group title for Tychy‘s occasional missives about the EU referendum. The first of these …

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Democracy on Trial: Labour’s Ignominy on the EU.

February 24, 2016

[“Democracy on Trial” is a new series of occasional missives about the EU referendum.] Why is the Left, or at …

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Stem Cells and the Left.

July 25, 2015

[The following was written early last month for the “Viewpoints” comments section on the Scottish Left Project website. Modelled on …

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Is Atticus Still Atticus? (A Review of Go Set A Watchman.)

July 16, 2015

Let us start by considering the dubiousness of all this. Go Set A Watchman is a radical first draft of …

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Why aren’t Stem Cells an Election Issue?

April 9, 2015

Some things are election issues and others are not. The National Health Service is, quite expressly, an election issue. Yes, …

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End Our NHS.

December 8, 2014

The UK Shadow Secretary of State for Health. The Labour movement is hurtling headlong into next year’s general election with …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Lysistrata.

August 19, 2014

Christopher Adams’ superb “Lysistrata,” which is currently established at C Central, transfers the events of Aristophanes’ ancient comedy to modern-day …

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Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (1/5).

May 12, 2014

The Case for Scottish Nationalism. Every revolutionary movement has to come to terms with the nation. Whenever revolutionaries appeal to …

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Book Review: Descent.

March 15, 2014

[The following contains spoilers.] Ken MacLeod goes to great trouble to try and disqualify his writing as literature. As usual, …

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Short Story Review: The Rajah’s Diamond.

January 28, 2014

Each of the short stories within Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1878) adopts a needy young man as their …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: The Hand-Me-Down People.

August 7, 2012

[The following contains mild spoilers.] Forget about the toys; this is a play about the debilitating effects of long-term unemployment …

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Required Reading

Literature

  • Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.
  • Ghosts and Scholars.
  • Life and Work of Herman Melville.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne at Eldritch Press.
  • Southern Literary Messenger.

Scotland

  • Alice B Spicer.
  • Cum Lazaro
  • Edinburgh Coffee Lovers
  • Edinburgh Daily Photo
  • Edinburgh Evening News.
  • Edinburgh Eye
  • Edinburgh Flipside
  • Edinburgh Zoo Blog
  • Emancipation & Liberation
  • Flying Rodent.
  • Greener Leith
  • Ivan Torres
  • Ken Macleod
  • Lallands Peat Worrier
  • Leithal Yak.
  • Looking At Edinburgh
  • Mel Roy Art
  • Real Edinburgh
  • Roch Winds
  • Scottish Economy Watch
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