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http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/
Started: 2007
Founders: Mike Small, Kevin Williamson
Started: 2007
Founders: Mike Small, Kevin Williamson
In its own words:
"We believe that renewing, reclaiming and re-imagining the media is a key part of the democratic revolution that’s taking hold in Scotland and beyond."
Constitutes: independent media
Main focus: Scotland
Bella Caledonia is named after a character in Alasdair Gray’s "Poor Things" (1992) and was formed in 2007 by Mike Small and Kevin Williamson as an online magazine combining political and cultural commentary:
- "We’re not aligned to any one political party but believe in self-determination for Scotland. Only then will a country disfigured by poverty and inequality be re-born. Only independence can bring democracy. The British State is irredeemable."[1]
Documents sourced from Bella Caledonia
Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:5G Trade Wars: the US Empire Strikes Back | Article | Huawei 5G US-China trade war | 16 May 2019 | George Kerevan | The global 5G marketplace in the control of private monopoly capitalism will result in something akin to Orwell’s 1984 nightmare. That will turn every man, woman and child on the planet into a consumer automaton monitored continuously by big business. |
Document:A Devastating Indictment of Israel’s War on Gaza | Article | Israel Israeli–Palestinian conflict South Africa International Court of Justice Occupied Palestinian Territory 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War | 11 January 2024 | Mike Small Roshdi Sarraj | |
Document:Black Cube, the "Mossad" of Commercial Spying | Article | Mossad Black Cube Michael Drury | 28 February 2019 | George Kerevan | Michael Drury, the former legal head of GCHQ, has set up in practice defending Russian oligarchs and bankers being chased by the main UK bank regulator (FCA) and the Serious Fraud Office: I wonder what he does for Black Cube? |
Document:Boris Johnson in Downing Street for five years: what could possibly go wrong? | Article | Austerity Boris Johnson Brexit Dominic Cummings | 30 December 2019 | John S Warren | All the cards are held by Boris Johnson because he has the answer to all the problems facing Britain. Save, perhaps, one: what could possibly go wrong for the Conservative-Brexit Government? |
Document:How to Keep Going During the Next Energy Crisis | Article | Margaret Thatcher Privatisation Chris Edwards Richard Seymour | 25 September 2021 | Mike Small | The social chaos unwinding on your forecourts and timelines is the long-term consequence of decades of privatisation, core industries run for profiteering with no thinking about the socio-ecological consequence. As people face mass fuel poverty, the dark irony is that all of these “British” institutions were sold off by the Tories, now desperate to defend the very concept of Britishness they’ve sold. |
Document:Labour Built the Bomb | Article | Clement Attlee Jeremy Corbyn Donald Trump Trident nuclear programme Nuclear weapon International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Beatrice Fihn Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | 10 July 2017 | Bill Ramsay | The prompt for this short essay is not Labour's nuclear legacy: it is what took place in the UN General Assembly last Friday when the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty passed into international law. |
Document:Losing the Plot: reflections on the Gaza debate debacle | Article | Labour Friends of Israel Labour Party Keir Starmer Scottish National Party Lindsay Hoyle | 24 February 2024 | John S Warren | It wasn’t the Nasty Nats that lost the plot. It was the Labour Party, and the Speaker. I trust they have now lost Scotland. |
Document:Meeting the Gaze of the Ghost in the Rubble | Article | Gaza Palestine Keir Starmer UK BP Lindsay Hoyle Rishi Sunak Infosys East Jerusalem 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War | 28 February 2024 | George Gunn | Meanwhile the ghost still looks out from the rubble of Gaza. Her stare searches across the ocean of our conscience like the beam of a lighthouse. The ghost in the rubble asks of us all: why can we not stop this madness and feed the people? |
Document:Nothing has Changed | Article | Theresa May Winston Churchill Tiny Rowland Joseph Ball Lonrho Priti Patel | 10 November 2017 | John Warren | The ill-judged words of the present Prime Minister perhaps accidentally illuminate something important about the true character of the Conservative Party: “Nothing has Changed”. |
Document:Outrage over killing of journalists is essential | Article | Anna Politkovskaya Jamal Khashoggi Marie Colvin | 11 November 2018 | Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | Above all we need to protect the laws and institutions which would have protected Anna Politkovskaya, Marie Colvin and Jamal Khashoggi had they been universal. We need to treat a threat to journalists anywhere as a threat to journalists everywhere. |
Document:Parody Britain and the Death of the Fourth Estate | Article | Michael Gove Boris Johnson Fourth Estate Dominic Cummings Rishi Sunak Carrie Symonds Allegra Stratton Munira Mirza Lee Cain | 9 December 2021 | Mike Small | This is a ruling elite, a governing class that comes from the same strata, shares the same education and is literally inter-married. In this context the idea that such a media can hold the powerful to account is of course laughable. The British media is incestuous and dysfunctional. |
Document:Police Violence | Article | Cressida Dick UK/Home Office/Investigatory Powers Tribunal Sarah Everard Spycops scandal Wayne Couzens Kate Wilson Mark Kennedy | 1 October 2021 | Mike Small | The radical overhaul of how we view policing and law and order shouldn’t be contained within the prism of the appalling problem of male violence – but seen in the context of state violence, the repression of dissent and the growth of the surveillance state. |
Document:Project Brexit | Comment | Michael Gove Theresa May Boris Johnson David Davis Brexit Gina Miller European Court of Justice Withdrawal from the European Union Dominic Cummings | 24 June 2017 | David | Project Brexit: "Doomed to Failure" |
Document:Rosebank: Omnicide for the People | Article | "Climate change" Fossil fuel Equinor Rosebank oil field Omnicide Ithaca Energy | 28 September 2023 | Mike Small | Rosebank is the next step in the grotesque experience we are all living through: omnicide. |
Document:Sanitising the Iraq War | article | Tony Blair George W. Bush Donald Rumsfeld Iraq Inquiry 2003 Iraq War | 6 July 2016 | Jonathon Shafi | The full horror of what Blair unleashed will never be truly understood in the West. And, internationally the full consequences of this war are still to be felt. As the sister of a soldier killed in Iraq said: “There is one terrorist in this world and his name is Tony Blair.” |
Document:Solidarity with all protesting the imposition of an unelected King | Op-ed | "Sovereign immunity" Charles Mountbatten-Windsor Royal prerogative British Empire Liz Truss Paul Powlesland Symon Hill | 12 September 2022 | Radical Independence Campaign | The death of Elizabeth II means the automatic appointment, with no discussion or reflection on our future, of a King manifestly unfit to represent the modern peoples of these islands. Charles is unelected, and unelectable. He would never have been chosen in a democratic system. |
Document:State Failure - the Conservative Government, Westminster and Britain | Article | Libya David Cameron | 14 September 2016 | John S Warren | Foreign Affairs Committee report says ex-PM David Cameron was responsible for appalling policy blunders in Libya that helped create a failed state on the verge of civil war. His (synchronised) resignation is all about appearances. |
Document:The HSBC Cabal | Article | National Crime Agency Amber Rudd HSBC Rona Fairhead Lisa Osofsky SFO | 11 October 2018 | Nicholas Wilson | HSBC paid Lisa Osofsky’s firm $200m a year to monitor the Deferred Prosecution Agreement in the US |
Document:The Paradise Papers and HSBC. Who | Article | BBC The Guardian Theresa May HSBC Paradise Papers Saudi Aramco | 14 November 2017 | Nicholas Wilson | The corruption surrounding Theresa May's seduction of Saudi Aramco to hold its stock market launch (IPO) at the London Stock Exchange next year has involved bribes, lobbying for HSBC and changing the rules by the FCA |
Document:The Real Reason Theresa May’s Brexit Has Failed | Article | Kenneth Clarke Theresa May UK Independence Party Jeremy Corbyn Brexit Democratic Unionist Party Jacob Rees-Mogg European Research Group Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive Arron Banks MiFID | 2 March 2019 | T. J. Coles | So, the choice faced by ordinary British people is between a neoliberal EU supported by millionaires like Kenneth Clarke or an ultra-neoliberal Brexit supported by multimillionaires like Jacob Rees-Mogg. Meanwhile, ordinary working-class people pay the price for these elite games, as usual. |
Document:Track and Trace. Stay Elite. | Article | David Cameron Boris Johnson Dido Harding Dominic Cummings NHSX NHS Improvement | 29 May 2020 | David Black | Poor Dido was pressed into service early by Boris and the lads when she launched her Track and Trace initiative some days ahead of its scheduled June 1st slot in a ludicrously transparent attempt to draw fire from Corporal Cummings, whose lockdown breaching escapades were causing havoc in Tory ranks. |
Document:What is the Plan - the Plan is to have no Plan | Article | Conservative Party Brexit 2016 EU Referendum | 10 July 2018 | John S Warren | The Brexit political mess we are now in, and the deep divisions and rancour that have been created were foreseeable and inevitable: it is a complete, shambolic mess. And be in no doubt: a 2nd Scottish Referendum will now require only 50% + 1 vote. Nothing else is sustainable now. |
Document:Where we go from here - Britain after Brexit | Article | Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn Brexit 2016 EU Referendum | 28 August 2016 | Anthony Barnett | Analysis of the so-called "Brexit" referendum result and prognosis for the future of the UK by a "passionate European" who wants to "keep the European flame alive". |
Document:Who is Sajid Javid? An everyday tale of Hedge Funds and Financial Intrigue | Article | Sajid Javid Deutsche Bank Chase Bank Jorge Jasson | 25 July 2019 | George Kerevan | Sajid Javid presents himself as the upwardly mobile son of a Pakistani bus driver. In reality, he is a culpable agent of global finance capital and its hedge fund pirates. At heart, they are opposed to all forms of international financial regulation – hence their support for Brexit. |
New Climate Reality, New Media | Article | Propaganda "Climate change" "Disinformation" IPCC Stanley Johnson Extinction Rebellion COP26 | 10 August 2021 | Mike Small | Call out the worst of columnists and publications spouting writing that is clearly against the common good and against humanity’s future. A weekly prize for the worst culprits. Naming and shaming disinformation and sponsored propaganda. |
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