ICYMI September
I spent the last few days hunting down an article that I needed to reference and realised that there’s such a vast bank of content on Bella’s archive that we need to find ways to make it easier to find. Plus, we want to showcase content that you might have missed in the last month. Not sure what to call it? ICYMI – From the Vaults – Monthly Review – these are all terrible, I know – suggestions please?
In the last month we published:
Claire McNab on the loss of Angela Rayner [Two Tribes of Hypocrisy]
Colin McArthur on Israel’s psychic trauma [Israel: The Modern Philoctetes]
Douglas MacMillan on what’s gone wrong with the land reform movement & legislation [Land reform in Scotland: where has it gone wrong?]
Alan McClure celebrating the life-work of Martyn Bennet [Scottish Cultural Pioneers: The Importance of Martyn Bennett]
Justin Kenrick describing the converging protests and the contrasting approaches to enforcement of laws north and south of the border [Grieving for Gaza, Taking back Power for Palestine and us all],
Meas Mór video about young musicians from Edinburgh and Cork bringing a groundbreaking Irish-Scots Gaelic rap project led by Kabin Crew and Tinderbox Collective [Meas Mór – Big Respect]
In this city, everything has stopped, a new poem by Mohammed Moussa, from the Gaza Poets Society [In this city, everything has stopped ]
An Andor discussion group, organised by the good folk from [I Have Friends Everywhere: an Andor Discussion Group]
On windpower, energy and power in the Highlands: THINGS ARE DONE TO US, NOT BY US: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn [Things are done to us, not by us ]
Norman Bissell on Expressing the Earth a new film about Geopoetics [A Beacon of Light in Dark Times]
The Bagpipes: A Cultural History, Richard McLauchlan, Hurst and Company. Reviewed by Vivien Williams [The Bagpipes: A Fresh Look at a Familiar Symbol]
John S Warren on corruption and delay, how Britain forestalls justice [Mr Bates. Who?]
Jim Sillars reviews The Starmer Symptom, edited by Mark Perryman, Pluto Press [Starmer and Labour’s failure to address Britain’s post-imperial delusions and decline]
We also published about how the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has been transformed since Oracle founder Larry Ellison began bankrolling it to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds; how hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared; how Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon and was reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison; and a bunch of other stuff.
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Reflux? DSL gives a Scots alternative of ‘affrug’ (or ‘afrug’), “the reflux of a wave after it has struck the shore”.
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