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A new podcast from the Workers’ Observatory bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/21/a...

A new Survation poll has shown a “miserable” level of support for nuclear power in Scotland. The polling makes grim reading for Scottish Labour and the LibDems who are both promoting new nuclear bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/20/n...

Black Fathers | Joe McCann on the experience of race, identity, and fatherhood bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/20/b...

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“The pursuit of radical abundance lies at the heart of the communist tradition”

Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social reviewed in @bellacaledonia.bsky.social:
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/07/r...

Writing Scotland in the Plural – with Robert Crawford from The Carrying Stream bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/19/w...

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The Conquest of Bread open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Read me in @ScotNational on the hysteria following the SNP's bid to make food more affordable ...

Siba – Dounana (دوننا) Without Us bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/19/s...

Operación Guardabarranco, Anarchist Bookfair & Republic Day: the good people at Republic have organised a ‘Republic Day‘ protest at Holyrood on May 9. Speakers include Alex Staniforth, Graham Campbell, Sara Sheridan, Bill Scott, and, er, me bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/17/l...

you and your facts

indeed

'How insulting to this country’s public servants for politicians like Findlay to use this kind of language'

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@neilmackay.bsky.social

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Leftfield: Operación Guardabarranco and the Anarchist Bookfair bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/17/l...

You got a link on that?

Lord George Robertson who has urged slashing of welfare to pay for defence has claimed £681.6k of allowances from sitting in the House of Lords. Benefit Scrounger? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/17/l...

Bernie Sanders and AOC Want to Pump the Brakes on AI Development Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are introducing legislation aimed at slowing down the development of AI data centers.

Data centers are increasingly unpopular, they use enormous amounts of water/electricity and have displaced residents. Maine recently passed the first statewide ban on them, and Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez support legislation to pause them www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Alistair Braidwood of Scots Whay Hae! podcast talks to writer and filmmaker Grant McPhee about his latest book Caledonia Screaming: Year Zero Vol 1 – Scottish Punk 1976 – 1977. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/16/c...

We're celebrating the Queen Elizabeth II Centenary with Philosophy Football bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/16/c...

What Lord Offord said about Labour’s attempt to make a deal with Reform isn’t even a new story. But let's look instead at the extraordinary institutional bias in the Scottish media that makes this sort of framing even possible bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/15/s...

Popesplaining

“Your” Party is dead, but Scotland still needs a party to fight the far-right, argues Owen Maitland in a piece that raises profound questions about the nature of the British Left. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/15/y...

I mean if you think Labour working with Reform is the same as the SNP and the Greens both being pro indy then I'm not sure what I can do for you

"What’s mystifying is why the Scottish media, which has already reported on these backroom deals, is acting shocked and surprised. If you weren’t already deeply cynical about the state of media collusion, or about the state of Unionist politics, you should be now."

The 'news' of a deal between Labour and Reform is no revelation. Bella has already covered these plans - as have the MSM, which now pretends to be shocked and startled. The Unionist plot is completely exposed. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/15/s...

Escape from Kharg Island As Melania demonstrates a mastery of the Streisand effect by popping up and blurting out incomprehensible denials of association, theories range from a cryptic cry for help to a distraction from the w...

Escape from Kharg Island open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

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