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Leasachadh-Fearainn: Blàr airson Tìr is Inntinn
In this Gaelic article, Daibhidh Rothach argues that a change in the way we look at the institutions and people who have held sway over Scottish life for centuries is as important an aspect to land...
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On Colonialism and Lesser Britain
Behind the bluster that has sought, somewhat over-anxiously, to articulate the Scottish Referendum result announced on 19th September, 2014 as being in some way “definitive”, there is an uncomfortable...
View ArticleEFI Statement on Women’s Prison
Edinburgh Women for Independence call for campaign to halt building of huge new women’s prison. “At their meeting on 17 December 2015 Women for Independence Edinburgh unanimously opposed the proposal...
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Bella’s Indyref Awards 2014
To celebrate 2014 Bella is hosting our own Indyref Awards. Your nominations are welcome. We’ll take suggestions up until New Year then shortlist and vote soon after. To nominate just leave a suggestion...
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A Psychological Post-mortem of the Scottish Independence Debate
Should Scotland be an independent country; YES or NO? This was the question posed to us on the 18th of September 2014. It was, arguably, the most important decision we have had to make in the last 300...
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The Big House and the Beautiful Game
Some people view ‘Rangers’ as the embodiment of bigotry, gangster finance, deference and all that is worst and retrograde about Scottish society. Others take a more negative view. But if the stories...
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Complicity’ or Duplicity: a Marxist account of the Gàidhealtachd
Clearances Loch nam Madadh 1895 ‘The Highland Clearances’ have been described by Ewen Cameron, William Fraser Professor of History at Edinburgh University, as “one of the most evocative and symbolic...
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‘Complicity’ or Duplicity: a Marxist account of the Gàidhealtachd (Part II)
This article continues my examination of Ray Burnett’s ambitious attempt, published on Bella Caledonia in August 2014, to portray the history of the 19th century Gàidhealtachd in terms that justify...
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So Far So Good. British Unionism’s Review of 2014
In the first part of our review of the year, Robin McAlpine talks of ‘swooning and fainting’ and ‘pooling and sharing’. The shock of 2014 Not much more than a week after the referendum I received a...
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Happy New Year to all Bella Readers & Writers
There’s not much to add by way of a ‘review’ after Robin’s piece yesterday ‘So Far So Good’. This year was emotionally, psychologically and politically both inspiring and – let’s be honest – massively...
View ArticleRally & Broad – The Final Curtain
As the magnificent Rally & Broad cultural salon prepares to pull down its final curtain after lighting up Scotland’s cultural scene for the last four years, Jenny Lindsay (co-founder of Rally &...
View ArticleShame on them who think evil of it – honours for an independent Scotland
What is honour? That was the question I asked myself when the outgoing prime minister, David Cameron dumped his predictable ‘honours list’ on an expecting and impotent public. There were to start with,...
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