The 30 Year Occupation
This year sees the thirtieth anniversary of the Peace Camp outside Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base on the Gare Loch.
Monthly Archives
Archive for: April 2012
I Am the Evidence
By Andy Wightman There is a programme on Radio 4 called The Unbelievable Truth in which panellists compete to see how many nuggets of truth they are able to hide Continue reading
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Starkey
By Doug Daniel The furore surrounding David Starkey’s stupid comments, comparing Alex Salmond to a “Caledonian Hitler”, were more interesting for what people didn’t say, than for what they actually Continue reading
When Duty Calls
By Michael Greenwell We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.- George Orwell A while back someone posted Continue reading
PFI Scotland
As the full catastrophe of the Labour / Tory PFI scandal unfolds before our eyes, Bella starts a series of articles and films looking at privatised Britain, what it means, Continue reading
Mayday! Mayday!
Leave details of your Mayday celebrations everywhere anywhere…
Boris Johnson: Midwife of Scottish Independence?
I suppose he needs to campaign on something solid – Barclays bikes and the likeable clown-toff strategies of yesteryear will probably not withstand another election. In amongst his economic campaign he is indirectly reigniting the question of Scottish Independence and provincial economic inequality …
Orkney and the New Class Culture
By Fiona MacInnes In the 60s I would hear my father describe the Orkney in which we lived as a classless society. Then I didn’t know what ‘class’ meant. We Continue reading
Bella Caledonia presents: “The Very Bastards Of Creation 2012 Awards”
“The Scots are the very bastards of creation.” John Wilkes, the great English radical, reformer, and 18th Century Member of Parliament for Middlesex “The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever Continue reading
Iceland’s President Explains Why The World Needs To Rethink Its Addiction To Finance
Here’s the full transcript of Business Insider’s interview with Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who has been President of Iceland since 1996, and announced last month he would be running for a fifth Continue reading
Poetry On Trial: 2. “Poetry and Tribalism” by Jon Stone
In the second of our ‘Poetry on trial’ essays – culled from the excellent Cut Out and Keep blog (now part of Fuselit website) – English poet Jon Stone looks Continue reading
Welcome to Skintland
This is where you live. This is the cost of deciding to govern yourself. Remember: you are too poor, too stupid and too lacking in talent to control your own Continue reading
Flash Mob INDEPENDÈNCIA
Flashmob for the independence of Catalonia was recorded on the 18th of March 2012 at 12pm at the Plaça Catalunya, in Barcelona. 8.500 people filled the centre of the square Continue reading
SPL Reduce Scottish Football to Farce
We’re asking all fans to support the statement: “If Rangers #newco are allowed back to the SPL immediately I will officially stop attending SPL football matches.” Put it on facebook and fans forums and twitter.
Poetry On Trial: 1. “What are poets for?” by George Gunn
This thoughtful provocative essay by poet George Gunn asks some timely questions on the whys and wherefores of modern poetry, and asks whether there is a socialised character of poetry Continue reading
A Deep Democracy for Scotland
By Justin Kenrick Between now and 2014 do we need a society-wide dialogue on how best to trail-blaze the rebuilding of resilient communities in a resilient ecology? As Svenja Meyerricks Continue reading
Indy Max or the Status Quo
This is the second in our series on #IndyMax (see also Trident Nowhere to Go here) By Justin Kenrick Four non-nationalist reasons for independence, and one reason against For those voters Continue reading
The Evolution of the Butterfly
For more information on the caterpillar and butterfly, humanity and society, see Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future And A Way To Get There From Here .
British Justice
On 5 April 2012, Barbar Ahmad became the first prisoner in a British jail to be interviewed on television from behind bars in this BBC broadcast. He has been held Continue reading
From The Province Of The Cat 2: “The Battle of the Braes is far from over”
As we approach the 130th anniversary of The Battle of the Braes – one of the most significant events in the history of Highland resistance to the landowning class – Continue reading
Anti-Englishness and the SNP
Broken Britain
Max Headroom
Scottish Independence poses the greatest existential threat to British imperialism since decolonisation…
