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"Catherine Connolly wins the Irish presidency. What next?"

My reflections on the independent left candidate's victory. #CatherineConnolly

Thanks again to Mike Small for publishing it in #BellaCaledonia […]

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"Messy Democracy: Ireland’s Reshaped Presidency".
My loooong (4,000+ words!) article on the story of Ireland's reinvented presidency, and the background to the 2025 #irishPresidentialElection #Aras25 is now published in #BellaCaledonia […]

Anti-Politics and the BritCard Yesterday’s election result in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse represents a nadir of Scottish politics, with the election of a candidate who spent most of the campaign in hiding from the me…

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It’s a fusion of digital surveillance, authoritarianism and British Nationalism rolled into one
#DigitalSurveillance #BellaCaledonia #Independence #Nationalism #CivicNationalism #Powel #Scotland #No #Brexit #Palantir #Farage #LabourTogether #JonathanAshworth

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/06/a...

Nicola Sturgeon’s Memoir Mainly Reveals Her Own Emptiness jacobin.com/2025/08/scot... #Scotland #Bellacaledonia @bellacaledonia.bsky.social

Bella Caledonia (@BellaCaledonia@mastodon.scot) 567 Posts, 158 Following, 1.17K Followers · Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007. Get our anthology here: http://leamingtonbooks.com/bella-caledonia

#Degrowth is key to respecting indigenous rights in the #Arctic.

By Steve Rushton #BellaCaledonia @BellaCaledonia

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/degrowth-is-k...

Bella as Lab and Testing Ground I like the idea of Bella as a Sandbox, a lab for ideas, a space where people can run with things and try them out. This has had a few practical examples of writers trying things out that then went …

Bella as Lab and Testing Ground bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/02/23/b... #Bellacaledonia is an international project, medium, & progressive voice well worth supporting.

American Dystopia When Margaret Thatcher escaped the IRA’s bombing of the Brighton hotel on 12 October 1984, she immediately used it as political capital. She decided to continue the Conservative conference as…

A post I just made at #Bellacaledonia, in response to one of its excellent analyses of what is occurring in the U$A: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/07/14/a... #UK