4 days ago · Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021. Curated by Mike Small, this anthology is a flavour of Bella’s output over these 14 years ― the editor’s pick.

In Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992), Gray proposed a possible female figurehead to represent Scotland: “Since the 18th century sculptors and political cartoonists have often represented nations as single people, usually robust and beautiful women with names like La France, Italia, Germania.

Jan 9, 2025 · “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. No sustainable solution possible to the existential crises of climate and nature now facing us all without dismantling the structures and legal systems which concentrate wealth in a false economic system run by a species that still has the genetic makeup of its survival of the fittest evolutionary origins.

This is a book celebrating fourteen years of publishing and collaborations. We have taken the idea of ‘self-determination’ and began to ask what would that mean for us as individuals, communities, towns and cities, not just as a nation?

Nov 25, 2021 · I’m delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on for months, an anthology of some of the best of Bella’s published work since we launched way back in 2007. We publish in the New Year but you can pre-order an advance copy here for only £12.99.. The collection is a mash-up of all the different forms and tones and styles that Bella brings: long-form journalism, cultural commentary ...

We don’t take any advertising, we don’t hide behind a pay wall and we don’t keep harassing you for crowd-funding. We’re entirely dependent on our readers to support us.

Jan 2, 2024 · This requires new types of media, new types of thinking and new types of action beyond a) the relentless loop of ‘debating’ climate change b) the endless engagement with tired broken processes (“COP56 has promised a breakthrough”) c) looking to new forms of direct action and building methods of resilience here in Scotland.

Dec 27, 2024 · The quality of journalism on Bella has been exceptional these last 12 months, and it’s now the only ‘news’ site I look at every day. The comments section over the last 2-3 months has turned into the Wild West and is becoming a bit of a turn off, but I think that will naturally shake itself out over time.

Aug 16, 2022 · Hi Alex – 100% agree that ‘ a “better Scottish government” can ONLY be realised by securing the powers of Independence.” Bit I think being completely uncritical of our current governance does not serve the cause of independence …

Oct 4, 2024 · Similarly, divisions between ‘nationalists’ and ‘unionists’, or ‘sovereigntists’ and ‘unionists’, are not straightforward. Michael Keating and I have been exploring ideas of sovereignty by means of survey questions: ‘ People in Scotland should have the ultimate right to decide for themselves how they should be governed ’ and ‘ …