Bella Caledonia

National

English

Online/Digital

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#1166289

United Kingdom

#100736

News and Media

#3059

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Kenmure Street not Downing Street

1 day ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

Four years ago, on May 13, 2021, Kenmure Street in Glasgow became global news. Hundreds of people united in peaceful protest and successfully freed two men from the UK Home Office van in which they had been detained. “…a nation that walks forward together” you could say. In the face of a surround-sound of vicious xenophobia, we need to upscale the efforts to show solidarity, and welcome people seeking refuge in Scotland.
Broken Britain, Scotland’s Opportunity

3 days ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

British politics is being remade before our eyes, the consequence of decades of failure, grotesque social inequality and the collapse of living standards. These are the conditions in which the politics of grievance and hate thrive. The far-right are predictably jubilant.
Broken Britain: Flux, Collapse and Stasis

1 week ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

A snapshot of the past week on Britain’s dramatically changing politics. Reform surge in England and talk about how young people need “moral re-education” about how great the Empire was and how to “love Britain.” Labour collapses in the local elections in England and Keir Starmer’s response is to talk of doing the same “further and faster”.
Israeli Embassy’s Interferes in UK Palestine Action Case

2 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

It’s been revealed that the Attorney General’s office gave contact details of the CPS and counter terror police, to the Israel government, during an investigation into protests at an Elbit Systems arms factory. The revelations come at a time when protest is being criminalised and dissenting voices shut down. Mike Small reports.
Edinburgh Disneyland

2 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

Innovative techniques will complement the aesthetics of the five astounding worlds that can be found within the theme park – Celestial Park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™ – Ministry of Magic™, SUPER NINTENDO WORLD™, How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk and Dark Universe.”I mean, Edinburgh is effectively already a “Wizarding World of Harry Potter™” but what this is is turning a historic site, in a Unesco World Heritage city into a themepark advert. Cool.
Transcendental Gastronomy - a vegan viewpoint

2 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Paul Tritschler

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” — Brillat-Savarin, 1825Getting back into fasting after a break is difficult. In the past I would fast for two days in every week, but occasionally challenged myself to extend that by a day or two, maybe three, until one day — evidently one day too many — I collapsed like a device unplugged and cracked my head on the sink and toilet bowl on the way down to the stone floor. Syncope is a lovely word, but I wouldn’t recommend the experience.
Fighting the Far Right, Reform and Scotland

2 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

John Swinney’s summit to ‘stop the far right’ had all of the energy of a burst balloon. Having been passed through the civil service it had lost any energy it might have once had. It was, no doubt, full of good intentions, and, as Swinney said: “Today is the start of the process, not the end of the process.”But it did not have the sense of seriousness it required. Was this about fighting fascism and the far-right in Scottish society as first billed?
Bad Religion and the Great Egg Hunt

3 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

Every Easter and Christmas along come the same people trundling out the same weird Christian victimhood. Right on queue here’s Robert Jenrick:This is, of course, performative outrage from people who are far happier waging culture wars than looking at the state of British society. It’s making great (and desperate) claims about ‘Britain’ that don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny.
Gen Z, the Demographic Timebomb and the Union’s Lifestyle Silo Problem

3 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Mike Small

Mark McGeoghegan, a researcher at the Centre for Constitutional Change at Edinburgh University has published a study asking ‘Is Scottish independence inevitable?’ which looks at the relationship between birth cohort and secessionism in Scotland. In plain language – do people change their views on the constitution as they grow older?
LBJ, the CIA and the killing of Kennedy

3 weeks ago | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Robin Ramsay

In March this year, with considerable attention from the major media, more than 77,000 pages related to the assassination of JFK were released by the National Archives and Records Administration. Thus far nothing of great significance has been reported by those working their way though the documents.