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
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
Leave details of your Mayday celebrations everywhere anywhere…
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 affairs. To do… Read More
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 who could swing… Read More
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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 – George Gunn revisits… Read More
the right of nations to self-determination” does not necessarily mean the right to separate, it means the right to decide whether or not to separate; if the Scots voted to remain part of the UK they would nevertheless have exercised their right to self-determination…
This from Jon Pullman and friends (please share widely). This should be read alongside O Donald Trump Woe Donald Trump:
This from our friends at the NATIONAL COLLECTIVE: The new exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh titled Democracy for Scotland: The Referendum Experience, bridges the years between the devolution campaigns of the late 20th century… Read More
This is from “Despatches from the Invisible Revolution” Reflections on 2011, (Editors: Dougald Hine & Keith Kahn-Harris) by Mike Small Caledonian Dreaming From Tunisia to Egypt, Wisconsin and Spain, London and New York,… Read More
by Bryce Milligan There is an undeclared war going on in the United States that threatens the lynchpins of American intellectual freedom. In a statement worthy of Cassandra, Noah Davis wrote in Business… Read More
Capitalism has duped us into thinking that money is God, that stuff will stave off unhappiness, and we must work on the hamster wheel of material accumulation to inoculate ourselves from lack.
By Mike Small I suppose the creation of these lists is some sort of cultural fit. It’s the thin end of the very fat wedge of linear thinking – where everything has to… Read More
A modern mystery of poetry, intrigue and art. This is a story of tiny beautiful, evocative artworks… ‘One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left… Read More
By Deena Stryker It is wrong to see the American Occupy Movement as a mirror image of the protests occurring in Europe, both in terms of its origins and aspirations. Europeans may have… Read More
Without a healthy cultural life there is no self-determination, nobody to imagine nationhood, to generate an image of who we might have been, of who we are, and of what we might like to become.
