Bella Caledonia

 http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/  
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."

 

Documents sourced from Bella Caledonia

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
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:Returning the Sausages	Article	Israeli–Palestinian conflict Genocide Labour Party International Court of Justice Apartheid Keir Starmer Two-state solution UNGA	24 September 2024	Mike Small	"Keir Starmer’s speech to conference was one of the most stage-managed and vapid addresses I’ve ever seen. It’s not enough to have hollowed out his party, the idea of being a protestor – or having values – or even using accurate language to describe the horrors going on in Gaza must be banned and mocked."
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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