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The Lady is for Turning

By Mike Small The Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont last night delivered a speech that has put her on the front pages of every newspaper and set the Twitterati alight, Continue reading →

Once Again We Will Be Left

By Robin McAlpine “All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. Continue reading →

Ewan Morrison Essay: Dead Malls On Living Land

By Ewan Morrison I’m standing before a vast crumbling structure surrounded by broken security fencing; A Danger-Keep-Out sign lies crushed and rusted on the tarmac of what was once an Continue reading →

Rio Grand Apathy

By Ross Croall Throw off the shackles of the so-called ‘debate’ on climate change – environmental problems are real, and they are here to stay. Forget about global warming for Continue reading →

Catastroika

Occupying a non-place

In an exclusive new essay for Bella Caledonia, author Ewan Morrison has some critical words to say about the direction taken by the global Occupy Movement. OCCUPYING A NON-PLACE by Continue reading →

Parecomic

By Mike Small From Alan Grant (Batman), to Mark Millar (Kick-Ass), Frank Quitely (New X-Men) and Grant Morrison (St Swithin’s Day) Scotland has had a major impact on the comic Continue reading →

What do Fred the Shred and Sir David Tell us About Scotland?

By Gerry Hassan This is not another article on football. The Rangers crisis has filled the airwaves and media this week. For the second time this year Scotland has gone Continue reading →

A Bit Rich

Why have the Greens Disappeared from the Independence Debate?

By Justin Kenrick Great post Clare – many thanks. It points to the liberating possibilities that accompany recognising what holds you down, and the creativity and responsibility that comes with Continue reading →

Scotland 3.0

Equality needs to be hard-coded into the new Scotland.

Materialism’s High Price

Tim Kasser – who spoke at St Andrews University Sustainability Institute on Tuesday night:

Transition Branching Out? Land Reform: Losing and Recovering the Commons

Should Transition remain above and beneath and beyond politics, or is there a way of fusing the genius of Transition’s focus on the primary importance of place, and the genius of the Occupy movement’s focus on the crude fact that the very few are destroying the planet we all depend on?

Food, Fairness and the Fife Diet

By Douglas Strang In ‘The Great Tablecloth’, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda conjures for us the sensual pleasures of the plate – “In the blue hour of eating, / the Continue reading →

Leaving Leaving, Left

Is it really enough to say ‘but we’d lose our place at the top table’ if what we do with that place at the top table is reduce worker’s rights and veto a Tobin Tax?

The War Against Private Banks has begun

by Kevin Williamson The US has a $14 trillion national debt and most folk haven’t a clue how it happened, not what can be done about it. Many naively think Continue reading →

Letter to a Dead Man

Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year — with three months yet Continue reading →

Braehead Big Brother

By Ewan Morrison Given that we live in an era in which, as one politician once claimed- ‘it’s your duty to shop’ and at which time that civic duty of Continue reading →

New Organisational Forms

One thing that helped a lot was a smattering of people from Spain and Greece and Tunisia who had been doing this sort of thing more recently. They explained that the model that seemed to work was to take something that seemed to be public space, reclaim it, and build up an organization headquarters around that from which you can begin doing other things.

Trader tells the Chilling Truth of Amoral Capitalism

“The Collapse is Coming…and Goldman Rules the World”

Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not

The 2008 world financial crisis was terrible for Iceland. At the end of the year the country declared bankruptcy. Contrary to what could be expected, the crisis resulted in Icelanders recovering their sovereign rights, through a process of direct participatory democracy that eventually led to a new Constitution….