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
Broken Britain
Scottish Independence poses the greatest existential threat to British imperialism since decolonisation…
Sooner or later the right to self determination will be exercised by the majority people in my country. When I vote ‘yes’ to independence I shall be voting towards that end.’
By Andy Wightman Pictured above is Rob Bain of Ardoch, Deeside, Aberdeenshire who died in July, 2010. Rob was the son of Jean Bain, the last native speaker of Deeside Gaelic who died… Read More
This image is brought to you by Scotland Says Yes. This week saw the leak of a document that showed the depths of Labour tribalism. A gift to oppose the Tories tax cut… Read More
‘Love Life’ is Bella’s Agony Aunt column by Jamie Heckert… because the personal is political and the ‘state we’re in’ is complicated. Freedom, in Scotland and elsewhere, isn’t something that is given by… Read More
Rangers Tax Case is Scotland’s Al Jazeera. Is @alextomo about to blow Scottish football & media out of it’s comfort zone?
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…
140 miles from Aberdeen the North Sea sits on the verge of an environmental catastrophe. A gas leak under the Elgin platform has, in the last few hours, been confirmed as coming from… Read More
This from Jon Pullman and friends (please share widely). This should be read alongside O Donald Trump Woe Donald Trump:
I said Charles, don’t you ever crave To appear on the front of the Daily Mail Dressed in your Mother’s bridal veil? Doug Daniel disentangles… Every new announcement from the Westminster government seems… Read More
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
In an article first published in Holyrood magazine, SNP veteran and nationalist icon, Jim Sillars, questions the SNP leadership’s courting of the of the Devo Max brigade. DANCING AROUND DEVOLUTION by Jim Sillars… Read More
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 Ewan Morrison The… Read More
By Mike Small Policeman in kettle: “Is there anyone in need of medical attention?” Protester: “How much will it cost?!” The vision of armed police kettling peaceful demonstrators protesting the latest stage of… 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
