Love Life (November)
‘Love Life’ is Bella’s Agony Aunt column by Jamie Heckert… because the personal is political and the ‘state we’re in’ is complicated. See here for more background. Dear Jamie, I’ve been reading your… Read More
Monthly Archive: November, 2011
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SCOTTISH COMMUNITY GROUPS MAKE ST ANDREW’S DAY APPEAL FOR SUPPORT
Two Scottish community renewable energy projects have teamed up to
make a St. Andrew’s Day appeal for support. The two projects – one
from Edinburgh and the other from Strathpeffer in the Highlands – have
chosen Scotland’s national day to appeal for online votes to help them
win funding from the Energyshare fund.
Scotland the World Over
You might think that we would *hate* Edinburgh-based website Blipfoto.com, who pipped Bella to top-spot in The Lists definitive guide to The Best Blogs in Scotland. Not a bit of it. As regular… Read More
And the Land Lay Still
By Andy Wightman I was in Perth last week giving a talk and leading a discussion on land issues with an enthusiastic audience of over 120 people. One member of the audience asked… Read More
Joan McAlpine & Séamas Ó Sionnaigh
This is a guest post by Andrew Anderson following on from Joan McAlpine’s writing on the anti-sectarianism bill and the impact of writing on it, (Sing out for a country free of prejudice… Read More
Climate Change as Tourism Opportunity
By Mike Small In a travesty of journalism this week the Scotsman chirpily reported the ‘upside’ of climate change, noting how we’d have fewer deaths, opportunities for tourism, ‘new crops’, and how the… Read More
Breaking Waves
The Scots and the Basques are the European nations which are most likely to break away from the states of which they are currently citizens and have most incentives to do so, according… Read More
Robert Thurman – Cool Revolution
Robert Thurman talk entitled: Cool Revolution and the Age of Wisdom. This is engaged Buddhist activism covering analysis of the problems that led to the frustration that fuel the Occupy Movement, the importance… Read More
A Republican Monarchy? England and Revolution
By Tom Nairn I’m writing this just after Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Dublin in May this year. And the Irish celebrations have come shortly after another British Royal Wedding Day,… Read More
Loves Labour Lost
By Mike Small Last night was the night for Labour hustings (which Bella sadly missed), and it’s a subject which we’ve been all but silent on. Many of you might be wondering who… Read More
The Upside of Austerity
The up side to austerity is the realisation of the worthless con that is material greed on which the house of cards of collapsing economies rely.
Sectarianism, Twitter and Democratic Legitimacy
By Paul Flannery As politicians are eager to engage with the electorate through twitter, discussing everything from the mundane and trivial to matters of great importance, I expected some sort of reaction when… Read More
Wean’s World
By Kate Higgins Today is World Day for the Prevention of Abuse and Violence against Children. Tomorrow is the United Nation’s Universal Children’s Day. Yet, this weekend there are children in Scotland too… Read More
Kill Pudsey
By Mike Small It’s the tyranny of the can-shake, the soporific of the charidee triad: Terry Wogan, Fearne Cotton and Gaby Roslin. Children in Need has been going since 1980 but god it… Read More
Stormont needs to take a leaf out of Scotland’s book to eradicate sectarianism
‘The Executive needs to take a leaf out of Scotland’s anti-sectarian book. Tackling Northern Ireland’s shame requires a robust, thought-out policy with coherent objectives and political will.’
Previously …
Bella interviewed Susan Morrison, one half of the team that has created Previously…Scotland’s History Festival launching today. Where did this idea start from? I had to wander along Princes Street one day and… Read More
David Harvey at Occupy London
Geographer David Harvey addresses London’s Occupy Movement (thanks to Gordon Asher):
Remodelling Scottish Citizenship
By Jamie Brown Scotland will soon have the chance to become an independent nation or possibly the option of having more control of it’s own future via Devolution-Max. If this happens what kind… Read More
The Empire State, Time Bandits and our Alien Nation
We now inhabit a time when no-one really trusts the instrumental logic of politicians or de facto monopolies, however much everyday life obliges them to go through the motions of doing so.
