Serco in Scotland
By Johnny Gailey On Friday 4th May at teatime, whilst the Scottish media’s eyes were firmly fixed on the local election counts being totted across the country, the Scottish Government slipped out the… Read More
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The Future’s Bright
What does a vote for Labour in Scotland mean today? A little over a week has passed since the council election results were announced, and Labour have already reversed policy to support more Orange Order… Read More
Irvine Welsh on Scottish Independence
6 min clip of Irvine Welsh v Tristram Hunt with Jeremy Paxman in the chair. (From BBC Newsnight on 20th Apr 2012)
A Dysfunctional Union
By Andrew Anderson Gordon Brown was the last Scottish Prime Minister of the UK. Ever. Even if we do not win independence in 2014 there will never be another Scottish PM of the… Read More
Pongoo Politics
After Professor Pongoo won more first preference votes than the Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate in Pentland Hills (Edinburgh City Council) wards we approached him to write exclusively for Bella. Pongoo said the Lib… Read More
Let Them Vote
By Daniel Paris After her famous Hamilton by-election victory, Winnie Ewing used her maiden speech to Parliament to argue that the voting age should be lowered to 16. At the time, the franchise… Read More
The Edge of Empire
This Saturday Christopher Harvie (‘A Floating Commonwealth‘) and Michael Gardiner are at Word Power Books, Edinburgh. This is an extract from Michael’s ‘At the Edge of Empire’: According to some accounts, Glover Brothers’… Read More
Wall Street Journal on The Economics of Scottish Independence
We’re not in the habit of reprinting articles from the Wall Street Journal but we’ll make an exception for this one. The article below was published on 3rd May by the WSJ in… Read More
Throwing the Three ‘Rs’ Away: Rupert Murdoch, the Referendum and Rangers FC
We have to stand up to power, while digging deep into our capacity to be generous, hopeful, imaginative, and playful and create the Scotland of the future today.
The Rangers Omnishambles
“So what if the TV deal goes into the ground? Either Scottish football runs Scottish football or the toxic hand of Rupert Murdoch does? Time to decide…” Alex Thomson on the Rangers omnishambles:… Read More
Northern Lights
By Doug Daniel Thirteen years ago this month, I went into my Higher Maths exam determined to get 100%. Most of my classmates went in hoping to maybe get an A or a… Read More
Charlie Stross: What Amazon’s ebook strategy means
Previous articles on Bella have questioned the Scottish government’s controversial decision to pour millions of tax payers money into a global corporation like Amazon. But it’s not just Amazon’s tax position that readers… Read More
You are All Suspects Now
By John Pilger You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and… Read More
Tainted League
By Mike Small A man born in Devon who’s been involved in Scottish football for three years has just decided the fate of the game north of the border. What he’s decided is… Read More
The Poverty of Imagination *
By Tom Jennings The UK’s soporific slide deeper into fiscally-imposed structurally-readjusted barbarity, without much in the way of disturbance to putative social peace, has now been thoroughly punctured. First the exuberant Lethal Bizzle… Read More
Rebel Inc: 20 Years On & Ready For More
A Bella Caledonia Exclusive! by Kevin Williamson May Day 1992 was one of the bleakest in recent memory. Scotland had sunk into a collective despondency when the Tory Party, under the leadership of… Read More
Back to the Future
By Mike Small Scotland on Sunday’s story about the loss to Scotland of the protective arm of M15 around our shoulder (Independent Scotland a ‘terror risk’) was revealing. This is, in part, just… Read More
FROM THE PROVINCE OF THE CAT 3: ‘Nothing Will Come From Nothing’ by George Gunn
by George Gunn Wednesday April 25th was a very windy day in Caithness. A fierce North Easterly gale blew down from Norway and blasted the blossoms off what pass for trees in this… Read More
