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Category Archive: Scottish Culture
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
Why Indy Lite is Wrong
By Pat Kane It’s fair to say – along with the not-so-gentle student arm-twisting of a newly elected representative for the South of Scotland region – that the veteran SNP grandee Jim Sillars… Read More
Beyond Knoxian Theatre
By Thom Cross Scotland does it all the time. We were taught it at school and in the street, by grannies and the meenister; more significantly (ominously?) by our Scottish? media the BBC,… Read More
The Union: A Journey into the Unknown
By Dorothy Bruce Politicians, commentators and posters have in recent months urged Unionists to make their positive case for the Union. Although some of us are rapidly coming to the conclusion there is… Read More
Caledonia
Terminally bored by the perennial national anthem debate. It’s Flower of Scotland, get over it. Here’s the wonderful Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five play…
Happy New 2012!
I hate focus group politics. But we want to to know what you want more of – and less of from us and our squad of scribes here at Bella Towers. So here’s… Read More
Offensive Behaviour
Disppeling some myths about the new anti-bigotry bill. Extract from a great piece by Humza Yousa (read the full article over at The Glaswegian): Everybody remembers the first football match they were taken… Read More
Labour’s Leader Lamont
By Mike Small It’s unfair I know but the idea that there’s more likelihood of Hearts players getting paid on time than Johann Lamont breathing life energy and the feelgood factor into Scottish… Read More
Scotland the World Over
You might think that we would *hate* Edinburgh-based website Blipfoto.com, who pipped Bella to top-spot in The Lists definitive guide to The Best Blogs in Scotland. Not a bit of it. As regular… Read More
Joan McAlpine & Séamas Ó Sionnaigh
This is a guest post by Andrew Anderson following on from Joan McAlpine’s writing on the anti-sectarianism bill and the impact of writing on it, (Sing out for a country free of prejudice… Read More
Breaking Waves
The Scots and the Basques are the European nations which are most likely to break away from the states of which they are currently citizens and have most incentives to do so, according… Read More
A Republican Monarchy? England and Revolution
By Tom Nairn I’m writing this just after Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Dublin in May this year. And the Irish celebrations have come shortly after another British Royal Wedding Day,… Read More
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
Still No Team GB
It’s somewhere between Marvel’s Captain Britain and a Rangers top circa 1988 (has someone been a bit clever?). But don’t expect them to fly off the shelves anywhere north of Carlisle. Not because… Read More
A Freire Future for Scotland
Scotland is pregnant with liberty and awaits deliverance.
Equal Marriage
As we celebrate the first openly gay leader of a political party in Britain and as the Catholic Church organises to send out 100,000 protest cards against gay marriage we’d like to express… Read More
The Irish Dimension
If Scotland becomes Independent, suddenly, Northern Ireland is a constitutional Nobody’s Child.
Should the Old Firm Leave?
Would Scotland be better without the Old Firm? Scott Hill argues it is imperative that they remain within their homeland.
