What's happening at Picardy Place? @edinburghminute.bsky.social

Merry Christmas 2025 bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/24/m...

Ewen McLachlan on the rural housing crisis | Everything is Fine bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/23/e...

As Greenland is back in the news, check this for background: Dreamland and Greenland, Trump’s New Manifest Destiny bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/01/09/d...

Peter Burnett reviews Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World by Darren McGarvey and Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars by Jenny Lindsay bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/22/t...

This month we published Chris Powici, Tracy Patrick, Paul Tritschler, David McCrone, Janet Fenton, Becky Kenton-Lake & many more. Support independent Scottish writing here: bellacaledonia.org.uk/donate

2025, the Blur bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/21/2...

When Myths Travel Without Their Names bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/20/w...

A new issue of Scottish Left Review under the capable hands of editor Cailean Gallagher is online now, check it out here: scottishleftreview.scot

'What the Scottish people need is for their elected representatives to be the champions of democracy, rather than the managers of mediocrity, which is the status quo' bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/18/t...

Scottish musicians in open revolt against BBC Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/17/s...

The question remains why a supposedly left-wing magazine would publish a piece in support of a political party with a clearly laid out fascist agenda? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/17/a...

“Immorality and Unseriousness. These are the two defining traits of today’s leaders. Today it’s not the most capable who rise but the least scrupulous…” bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/16/w...

Why When Harry Met Sally will destroy Trump | Trump, Reiner and the Fifth Avenue Theory open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...

What does the Demarco Archive leaving Scotland tell us about the state of the Arts in Scotland and Edinburgh? A Cultural Evacuation: The Demarco Archive Leaves Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a...

The American novelist Sinclair Lewis famously said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This is true of Britain too. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/13/t...

A friend is someone who gives you money bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/12/a...

New Nuclear Means MORE Nuclear Waste For Cumbria - an Increasingly Bad Neighbour. open.substack.com/pub/radiatio...

I predicted a post-Labour Scotland back in March. Now it's here. | Press Gangs, PIP and Post-Labour Scotland open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Ipsos Polling; Labour Collapse, Greens Surge, SNP Hold bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/11/i...

More from the #PowerShift - lessons from communities already making renewables work for them [Scottish Beacon] thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna...

Solar panel company focussed on one thing to outlast challenges of renewable sector #PowerShift www.scottishbeacon.com/news/solutio...

Refusing the Frame: Why Our Language Helps Hate — and How We Can Stop It bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/09/r...

Colonial Brutality has always had a way of coming home.

A People Once Again? The Irish Questions bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/09/a...

Moscow, Washington, Kyiv, Faslane, Coulport bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/08/m...

The Parallel Universe of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), Scotland’s Place in the Narrative bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/08/t...

The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/07/t...

Re-sharing this piece from 2021 in light of the gushing praise for Reform UK’s new recruit | Bankrupt Britain and the Offord Affair bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/10/03/b...

Everyone knows Farage is racist, his racist supporters know it and his racist funders know it | Wrestling with a Pig bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/06/w...

The concluding part of our series with the Herald newspaper, here by Rhiannon Davies on the Power Shift, and the choices ahead for how we manage renewable energy in Scotland from @scottishbeacon.bsky.social www.scottishbeacon.com/news/local-d...

“It’s about energy and time and capital and how these forces come into our lives and how we work through them.” @dominicmhinde.bsky.social was interviewed about his new book Drifting North: Finding A Sustainable Future in Scotland's Past, by @bellacaledonia.bsky.social

Part of why Farage's racist dog whistle on Glasgow will fail is because he/they know nothing about the city. For 1,400 pupils who attend one of the five GME schools in Glasgow – Gaelic is their first language. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/03/f...

BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Farage’s Glasgow Dog Whistle bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/03/f...

This virtually never happens

Life Comes at you Fast - the Sunday Times and Daily Record have competing stories as Scottish Labour MPs slug it out bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/01/l...

2025 Readers Survey bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/01/2...

Scotland’s energy shift exposes deep divide for communities by Rhiannon Davies from @scottishbeacon.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/256...

I interviewed Dominic Hinde, author of Drifting North, finding a sustainable future in Scotland’s past (Manchester University Press, 2025). bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/01/d...

The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic. We explored what it means #StAndrewsDay bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/30/i...

Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Opportunism, Hypocrisy and Imperial Disdain bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/29/o...

Democracy denial and pork barrel Politics are the hallmarks of Labour’s botched Budget bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/29/o...

"Independence, the assertion of full Scottish national sovereignty, has always seemed to me like an opportunity to disengage from destructive futures, as much as contribute to constructive ones" open.substack.com/pub/patkane/...

Axing Scottish Music Programming bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/28/a...

Police Scotland and Prosecuting Peace bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/27/p...