Bella CaledoniaNew AlliancesStarmer’s Labour Party are the ‘hard-centre’ rather than social (ist) or even a social democratic one. They are to the right of the party…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaLabour LiesYou will be used to being lied to. You’ve been lied to a lot. But the speed of this unfolding seems more brutal and more blatant. The speed…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaBritain’s Niemöller MomentBritish Democracy died along time ago, but this week you were invited to its funeral. On Thursday five Just Stop Oil activists were…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaOn Low Level TraumaMaybe its the strange spectacle of the opening of parliament with all the trappings of the semi-feudal state ceremony on display, maybe its…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaAmerican DystopiaWhen Margaret Thatcher escaped the IRA’s bombing of the Brighton hotel on 12 October 1984, she immediately used it as political capital…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaThe 12 July: Bonfires and BarricadesYour timeline and mine may be drowned in images of massive pallet-bonfires and running battles with police — huge fires and houses being…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaIs independence possible without the SNP?It’s a question that few of us have asked in the last decade or more. The assumption, however misplaced has been that the SNP were the…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaA Loveless LandslideLabour have won a landslide on a smaller percentage of the vote than they won under Jeremy Corbyn. On 35% of the vote they have been swept…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaOn Getting Rid of the ToriesYou’re not voting in a normal General Election. The landscape has changed completely and is rapidly changing further before your eyes. Just…Jul 25Jul 25
Bella CaledoniaDiagonalism, the Cosmic Right and the Conspiracy SmoothieHow do you explain the journey of many people — previously thought to be of the Left — and now turning up in far-right channels and spaces?Jul 18Jul 18