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 …
Tag Archives: Revolution
Democracy on Trial: Brexit and the Spirit of Scotland.
On 21 May 1838, at least a hundred thousand trade union members and supporters gathered on Glasgow Green, to listen …
EXCLUSIVE: Another British Empire is Possible.
Tychy today publishes the founding statement of “Another British Empire is Possible.” This new campaign, which aims to get beyond …
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 …
Democracy On Trial Artwork.
“Democracy on Trial” will be the group title for Tychy‘s occasional missives about the EU referendum. The first of these …
Democracy on Trial: Labour’s Ignominy on the EU.
[“Democracy on Trial” is a new series of occasional missives about the EU referendum.] Why is the Left, or at …
Stem Cells and the Left.
[The following was written early last month for the “Viewpoints” comments section on the Scottish Left Project website. Modelled on …
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 …
Why aren’t Stem Cells an Election Issue?
Some things are election issues and others are not. The National Health Service is, quite expressly, an election issue. Yes, …
End Our NHS.
The UK Shadow Secretary of State for Health. The Labour movement is hurtling headlong into next year’s general election with …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Lysistrata.
Christopher Adams’ superb “Lysistrata,” which is currently established at C Central, transfers the events of Aristophanes’ ancient comedy to modern-day …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (1/5).
The Case for Scottish Nationalism. Every revolutionary movement has to come to terms with the nation. Whenever revolutionaries appeal to …
Book Review: Descent.
[The following contains spoilers.] Ken MacLeod goes to great trouble to try and disqualify his writing as literature. As usual, …
Short Story Review: The Rajah’s Diamond.
Each of the short stories within Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1878) adopts a needy young man as their …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Hand-Me-Down People.
[The following contains mild spoilers.] Forget about the toys; this is a play about the debilitating effects of long-term unemployment …
