Sean Bell

3 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Sean Bell

SINCE October of 2023, Israel has waged what Amnesty International described last month as a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, with the world as its audience. Never before in history has a crime of this scale unfolded with such immediate visibility; to deny the evidence of its daily realities or their cost in blood – over 51,000 dead, according to Palestinian health authorities – would seem to be pointless as well as perverse.

2 months ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Sean Bell

“Murderer! Thief! How can you take the last penny out of a poor man’s pocket?”“I have to – I’m a landlord.”– The Producers (1967)THIS article will allow me to pay my rent. By now, I suspect my esteemed editor knows that when a fresh pitch of mine arrives in his inbox, it is motivated not just by the urge to elevate our Discourse with some elegant polemic, but also the need to once again plug a rather desperate hole in my finances.

2 months ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Sean Bell

FOR better or worse, here is the story that always sticks with me about the Edinburgh Fringe. In the late Seventies, my father was sent to review a show – a ‘rock ‘n’ roll reinterpretation of Shakespeare’, if you please – at which he was one of the two people who comprised the entire audience. As the show began, a young man with an electric guitar took to the stage. “If music be the food of love…” he intoned, before thrashing out a thunderous riff.

Nov 8, 2024 | archive.is | Sean Bell

The Rule You Followed Brought You To This: Trump, Harris and the AftermathI’m Mr Bad Example, intruder in the dirtI like to have a good time and I don’t care who gets hurtI’m Mr Bad Example, take a look at meI’ll live to be a hundred and go down in history– Warren ZevonIN the days to come, remember this: they got exactly what they wanted. Not everyone, of course.

Nov 7, 2024 | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Sean Bell

The Rule You Followed Brought You To This: Trump, Harris and the AftermathI’m Mr Bad Example, intruder in the dirtI like to have a good time and I don’t care who gets hurtI’m Mr Bad Example, take a look at meI’ll live to be a hundred and go down in history– Warren ZevonIN the days to come, remember this: they got exactly what they wanted. Not everyone, of course.