“Scotland is back at the beating heart of my government.” Keir Starmer, Jul 7, 2024 | "the Scottish Government is a threat to our security”. John Healy, Nov 2025 bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/08/b...

Back at the Beating Heart bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/08/b...

Remembrance & White Poppies bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/08/r...

Rockstar North workers fight back against union-busting bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/07/r... #GrandTheftAutoVI #GTA6 #RockstarGames

The @FoEScot statement on the new 'climate plan' is scathing (and 100% correct): 'Dreadful' Climate Plan does nothing for households, workers and communities foe.scot/press-releas...

📢 Join Scotland’s Climate March on Sat 15th Nov to demand a better world as part of a Global Day of Action! Assemble at 11am, Glasgow Green. Global Solidarity. A Fair Transition. Caring For Our Planet. Get involved: climatemarch.scot #ScotlandsClimateMarch

Sky News’ data and forensics team spent nine months investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies far right and extremist content. Their research has definitively proved that it does. Great work @kaitlintosh.bsky.social @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and other Sky News journalists.

The Empire is Alive and Kicking and its Legacy Still With Us | Nigel Biggar, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt, Forum, £20. | Review by Alan Lester bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/04/t...

On Hopium, Poptimism and Disconnect open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

I know the black community have a tradition of mass marches to the polling station. Speaking into the void here really but I would recommend that approach everywhere, pronto. I would also start planning demos at any key legal certification events (eg Jan 6th!)

'Nigel Farage is Not My Friend...He's Just a Very Handsome Man' open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Notes from Sarajevo bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/02/n...

Britain’s inability to imagine itself as anything other than a feudal relic is being brutally exposed, not by Andrew’s disgraceful behaviour but by the response to it. open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Britain is collapsing open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

lowercase November - remembering Elspeth King and literary events and publications @lighthousebks.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/01/l...

Late Britain | You are living through the biggest constitutional crisis since 2014. open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

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A Democratic Socialist will be elected to be the Mayor of New York City. The Democratic Party is terrified. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/31/z...

This is exactly what I said at the time |Why did the polls get the Caerphilly byelection wrong? They ignored the fact Reform is an English nationalist party theconversation.com/why-did-the-...

This October, in a huge win for tenants, a new Scottish Housing Bill was passed in Holyrood. After almost ten years of pressure from Living Rent, we saw parliament approve the most progress for tenant’s rights in decades bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/31/a...

The Crisis of the British Monarchy bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/30/t...

This is Suella's hot take

Trump intends to leave the government shut down, and to use any public disruption in response to societal breakdown and starvation as a pretext to institute martial law, maybe via the Insurrection Act, or whatever. He is preparing for violent rule by king.

Private Eye.

People like Iain Macwhirter and Douglas Murray play a special role in curating racism bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/28/r...

Kinlochbervie wind farm row raises questions over transparency – not turbines - www.scottishbeacon.com/news/local-d... @scottishbeacon.bsky.social #PowerShift

Polls vary, but all agree on these 5 features: ✅The SNP vote being remarkably resilient despite incumbency ✅Scottish Labour collapse ✅The Scottish Tories being obliterated and replaced by Reform UK ✅A Green surge ✅ALBA gaining no seats bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/27/h...

Holyrood, the Senedd and the Green Surge bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/27/h...

Catherine Connolly wins the Irish presidency. What next? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/26/c...

Ireland has again chosen as its ceremonial head of state a socialist, pro-peace, feminist champion of human rights bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/26/c...

Seafield: Where Stink Meets Sourdough | Charlie Ellis on the gentrification of Edinburgh bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/26/m...

Good piece by Gerry Hassan on the strengths (& weaknesses) of the Scottish Greens www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Thoughts on this? @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social @ballotbox.scot NEW | Poll points to SNP Holyrood MAJORITY 🟡 SNP – 66 seats (+2) ➡️ REF – 16 seats (+16) 🟢 GRN – 15 seats (+7) 🔴 LAB – 14 seats (-8) 🟠 LD – 9 seats (+5) 🔵 CON – 9 seats (-22)

Messy Democracy: Ireland’s Reshaped Presidency bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/m...

Messy Democracy: Ireland’s Reshaped Presidency bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/m...

This morning Plaid Cymru won in Wales. Tomorrow, Catherine Connolly will win in Ireland. Next Spring the SNP will win at Holyrood. What's Welsh for schadenfreude?https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/__trashed-37/

The Polanski Effect bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/23/t...

The Polanski Effect bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/23/t...

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SCALP and Netpol’s Report on the policing of Palestine Solidarity in Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/23/s...

Problems for #NoKings in Trumpland open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Farewell to the Earl of Inverness bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/20/f...

Britain Undone: The Bruising Blows of Brexit "Over 5 years from 2020, the cumulative loss of GDP is probably now around £700Bn" bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/19/b...

Learning from Ireland’s Cultural Revival | Where is Scotland’s Manchán Magan?https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/19/learning-from-irelands-cultural-revival/

Broken Britain is being Transformed open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Either of you have a view on this polling? @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social @ballotbox.scot

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Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman defends the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Villa Park @MarkPerryman #MaccabiTelAviv bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/17/k...

Broken Britain is being Transformed. The death of two-party politics in Britain has dire consequences for the Union. open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Marking #BlackHistoryMonth, Khutso Dunbar challenges us to resist the use of the Saltire to vilify immigrants through ignorance and reclaim the flag as a symbol of inclusion: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/17/b...