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Kinetic Capital

Beautiful short film of the capital by Walid Salhab

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Darling as Avatar

By Callum McCormick By all accounts it has been a good couple of months for the Unionist campaign. Polls showing a decrease or at least no increase in support for Continue reading →

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Lost

By Mike Small Gordon Asher and Leigh French’s ‘Crisis Capitalism and Independence Doctrines’ is a critique of the independence movement seen as one that is reformist and shallow in it’s Continue reading →

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Crises Capitalism and Independence Doctrines

By Gordon Asher and Leigh French The interest of the oppressors lie in changing the consciousness of the oppressed not the situation which oppresses them.” (Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Continue reading →

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Why Women Against Rape need to be heard in the poisoned waters of the Julian Assange case

by Kevin Williamson The Julian Assange controversy rumbles on and will continue to do so for as long as he is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy.   Which could Continue reading →

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Scottish Premier League: Rumours of death greatly exaggerated

After the hue and cry of the close season, the slow torturous death of the football club once known as Glasgow Rangers FC, the hand-wringing and SFA  stitch ups … the Continue reading →

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A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward…

by Marc Savlov Aspiring filmmaker? Don’t go back to school. Seriously. No matter how much your parents plead with you, it’s no longer necessary. Instead of amassing the soul-crushing mountain Continue reading →

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Photo: (c) Kevin Williamson

What Place for Poetry in Politics? (+ ‘In Memory Of Doctor Angus Calder’ a new poem by George Gunn)

This Saturday afternoon, as part of The Festival of Politics,  Aonghas MacNeicail, Janet Paisley and regular Bella columnist George Gunn – three highly regarded writers, poets, playwrights and broadcasters – Continue reading →

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Airport Stalingrad

By Fiona MacInnes Strange things can occur when you enter the world of grown up work as a late starter. I used to live in a place called ‘Orkney’ which Continue reading →

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Irvine Welsh: Is There Such A Thing As National Culture?

by Irvine Welsh I’ve always considered myself belonging to the school of writers who should be read but not heard, so I don’t know what set of circumstances leads me Continue reading →

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Communiqué: A World in Crisis, A Media Silent

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Assange Facts

Due to ongoing media distortion and the inability of the MSM to report this case adequately, we publish this from Occupy London…  

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Book Review: The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

Recommending a novel is a big deal (writes Kevin Williamson). In an age of the Great Information Skim it takes time and commitment to read a book, not to mention Continue reading →

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MacDiarmid Memorial

The Hugh MacDiarmid memorial near Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

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2014 v 2016: An Open Letter To Angus Robertson (and all YES campaigners)

  Dear Angus Now that both sides in the Indy debate have launched their respective campaigns you would think Scots would now be engaged in intelligent respectful debate, explaining what Continue reading →

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Indy Women

Women may have won the vote but they still struggle to be heard. It’s been frustrating to watch mainly men, representing political parties, slog out the questions in a generally polarised, aggressive way. Not always – but it has certainly been the main prism through which the hugely important question of our country’s future has been directed through.

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Zapatista Education

 

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TRANSLATING THE BRITISH, 2012 by Carol Ann Duffy

There’s a split decision at Bella Towers over UK Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s newly published Olympics poem.  Kevin thinks it is “no bad” while Mike thinks it is “shit”.  We’d Continue reading →

Micheal Meacher letter

Front-runner in 2012 Letter Of The Year Olympics?

This concise thoughtful letter by Labour MP, Michael Meacher, was first published in The Guardian two months ago (2nd May 2012) but is still doing the social media rounds. Its Continue reading →

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The Wonderful Ian Davidson

Ian Davidson loses the plot on live television.

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Science And The Sixth Of August

By Michael Greenwell I got up early this morning to watch what, from every angle you look at it, was a triumph. However, I am not going to say it Continue reading →

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It’s Time (for Scotland to Grow Up)

By Doug Daniel The referendum in 2014 will be about much more than just whether political decisions affecting Scotland are made in Edinburgh or London. Well, in some ways this Continue reading →

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Forms of Protest 1

Part one of a new Bella series looking at innovation and forms of protest. Crowdsourcing ideas for the independence movement and exploring social media and social change. First up: Casseroles, Continue reading →

Tony Curtis & Burt Lancaster in Scottish director Alexander McKendrick's classic film noir The Sweet Smell of Success

Lights, Camera, Action

In case you missed it in The Scotsman last week we’re reprinting this perceptive essay on the challenges facing Scottish film-makers. by Robin McAlpine ‘There’s only one casting call in Continue reading →

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Let the Summerhall revolution begin!

by Kevin Williamson Tonight’s the night. Its the grand opening of the new Summerhall arts complex‘s festival programme, in conjunction with The List magazine’s annual festival shenanigans. This will be Continue reading →

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Elsewhere

Loving this collaboration between Cargo and McSweeney’s: four-book collection entitled “Elsewhere” is created from stories of leading authors commissioned by the Edinburgh International Book Festival including Roddy Doyle, Amy Bloom, Continue reading →

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Showtime

Andy Wightman explores ideas to combat the feral elite who have wrecked havoc on our economy for their own personal aggrandisement…

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From The Province Of The Cat 6: Mussolini’s Olympics

by George Gunn The future of Scottish politics, the future of our little country, is like an un-spliced rope blowing flayed in the wind. It would take a rope worker of Continue reading →

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