Positivity
By Mike Small Pundits seem to be coalescing around the idea that a ‘positive message’ is an essential part of political campaigning (nothing new here, see Pat’s Juggernaut of Joy thesis). Whether it’s… Read More
Category Archive: Identity
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Something for the weekend: Big Burns Supper & Neu! Reekie!
by Kevin Williamson For anyone planning on being in the Edinburgh or Dumfries area this weekend, here’s a heads-up on a couple of events I’m involved with that might be worth checking out.… Read More
Braveheart Buddhists
By Andrew Barr “Independence isn’t just history.” That was the message of leafleters outside Scottish cinema screenings in the 1990s as Wallace rode onto our screens ready to free the nation. Today the… Read More
Empire State of Mind
By Gerry Loose These are the territories and countries that could never make it without England’s support. They would fail. They would fail. American territories east of the Mississippi (in modern USA) Thirteen… Read More
Vote Britain
By Alan Bissett People of Scotland, vote with your heart. Vote with your love for the Queen who nurtured you, cradle to grave, Who protects you and cares, her most darling subjects, to… Read More
Lilliput Nation
By Clare Galloway I awoke at 2am with my usual head-buzz about my house renovation, and the sustainability of my lifestyle at present… but rather than nodding off amongst ever-decreasing eddies of problems-versus-solutions… Read More
Scotland 3.0
Equality needs to be hard-coded into the new Scotland.
The ‘Three Scotlands’ and How to Win an Independence Referendum
By Gerry Hassan Scottish politics post-the election and the return of a majority SNP Government have existed in a seeming state of limbo, a kind of political phoney war. The SNP have won… Read More
Speaking our Language
Gaelic as an option among other new world languages such as Mandarin and Portuguese could propel a Scottish generation confidently into the economies of the future.
Materialism’s High Price
Tim Kasser – who spoke at St Andrews University Sustainability Institute on Tuesday night:
Iceland’s Revolution Response
By Deena Stryker This is a long Overdue Response to “The Reykjavík Grapevine” and all those who have taken exception to my August blog: “Iceland’s On-going Revolution”. This article is written at the… Read More
For a New Scottish Democracy
How we Democratise Scotland’s Future: Challenging the Conceit that ‘There is No Other Way’
Do Words Have Voices?
Huge hearty Bellalicious congratulations to Martin Boyce for winning the Turner Prize 2011 with his wonderful spooky installations. This completes a hat-trick for Scotland, following fellow Scots artists Susan Philipsz and Richard Wright,… Read More
Love Life (November)
‘Love Life’ is Bella’s Agony Aunt column by Jamie Heckert… because the personal is political and the ‘state we’re in’ is complicated. See here for more background. Dear Jamie, I’ve been reading your… Read More
The Upside of Austerity
The up side to austerity is the realisation of the worthless con that is material greed on which the house of cards of collapsing economies rely.
Sectarianism, Twitter and Democratic Legitimacy
By Paul Flannery As politicians are eager to engage with the electorate through twitter, discussing everything from the mundane and trivial to matters of great importance, I expected some sort of reaction when… Read More
Wean’s World
By Kate Higgins Today is World Day for the Prevention of Abuse and Violence against Children. Tomorrow is the United Nation’s Universal Children’s Day. Yet, this weekend there are children in Scotland too… Read More
Previously …
Bella interviewed Susan Morrison, one half of the team that has created Previously…Scotland’s History Festival launching today. Where did this idea start from? I had to wander along Princes Street one day and… Read More
Remodelling Scottish Citizenship
By Jamie Brown Scotland will soon have the chance to become an independent nation or possibly the option of having more control of it’s own future via Devolution-Max. If this happens what kind… Read More
