Winners and Losers from Rising Wages and Falling Ones.
The three months before June had marked an annual rise of 5.2% in average regular pay, as measured in real …
Tag Archives: Scottish Independence
Labour Is Now The Party Of The Union.
It is now clear that Thursday’s panoply of elections has strengthened the different parties of government at Westminster and Holyrood. …
The Fallacy of IndyRef2.
Sometimes it is worth returning to original assumptions – assumptions that have remained undisturbed for a long time – just …
Indyref 2: A Road To Nowhere.
The route to a second Scottish independence referendum all looks like a big spaghetti pie at the moment. Pro-independence politicians …
An English Country Vicar Meets His Match.
On Sunday morning, the Reverend Stuart Campbell climbed into the pulpit and he began to preach his sermon to the …
More Lockdown, More Thanatos.
What explains this eerie life after death that the lockdown lately finds itself in? If, back in November, we had …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 25).
[SCENE: Still not a pub. We are in the living room of Zbigniew Tycienski’s Newington apartment. James is sitting alone …
2020 in the words of Tychy et al.
“What was it that Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan once said?” The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds …
Chewing On Jackson Carlaw.
“I can’t help but wonder what part sharing this may have played in today’s events.” This is Andrew Tickell, the …
How to Defeat the Scottish Nationalists (Warning: Contains Traces of Machiavellianism).
Could Nicola Sturgeon’s own carelessness have already sown the seeds of her eventual knockout defeat? Here is her in January …
Would An Independent Scotland Have Been Able To Afford The Furlough Scheme?
Supposing that Scotland had voted to become independent in 2014. Supposing that this nation had not fallen stillborn from the …
“And The Glitter Is Gone”: On How to Leave the EU with Emotional Intelligence.
The sun is setting over New York. We are on a roof, with the horizon at waist level, and with …
Where You Belong (a review of GE2019).
‘You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Westminster Hour Part 2.
[The following contains spoilers.] Two hours of the day are currently “Westminster Hours” at Sweet Novotel. The first play in …
Aren’t the different Project Fears actually all the same one?
Why aren’t the Scottish National Party more sanguine about Brexit? Isn’t it logically in their obvious interests for a “no …
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