Bella Caledonia – independence – self-determination – autonomy
5 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.
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Bella Review and Feedback 2024 – Bella Caledonia
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.
Early Days, Still – Bella Caledonia
Nov 8, 2024 · Written looking back at the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, November 2024. The last few months have simplified and revealed some of the deeper questions at play ten years ago, when we had the chance to break-up the British state and declare independence.
Bella Themes for 2024
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.
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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.
Magazine - Bella Caledonia
Issue 1 – March 2017 Features: Joanna Blythman, Sara Shaarawi, Adam Ramsay and Gordon Guthrie.. Gordon Guthrie on ‘After Brexit’. This is an extract from his new book Winning The Second Independence Referendum – a manifesto for Scotland and the EU after Brexit. Gordon Guthrie argues that the SNP must simply ‘remain firm whilst the UK shakes itself to pieces, a island of stability in ...
Politics - Bella Caledonia
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25 Years of Devolved Power - Bella Caledonia
May 7, 2024 · Donald Dewar also said in his opening remarks: “ This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves ” Indeed, yet the most the general public see of the chamber is the pantomime of First Minister’s Questions – how might most of us describe the way in which parliament carries itself? Across a range of issues Scottish politics has become ...
Alasdair Gray’s Bella Caledonia
Dec 30, 2019 · In Gray’s story Bella is a metaphor for a nation. As Kirsten Sterling tells us in (“Scotland Deformed?”“The label “Bella Caledonia” below the portrait of the main character on p. 45 of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things (1992) suggests that Gray wants us to read the character Bella Baxter as a female personification of the Scottish nation, …