Mike Small

Mike Small    (writer, journalist, author, publisher)
Alma mater	Goddard College, Birkbeck University of London
Founder of	Bella Caledonia

Mike Small is a freelance writer, journalist, author and publisher who has written for The Guardian, Sunday Herald, Sunday National, Open Democracy, Variant, Lobster and Z Magazine. In 2021, he is working on a biography of Patrick Geddes and a history of Scotland 1950-2020.

Mike Small has edited the online magazine Bella Caledonia since 2007.

 

Documents by Mike Small

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:A Devastating Indictment of Israel’s War on Gaza	Article	11 January 2024	Israel Israeli–Palestinian conflict South Africa International Court of Justice Occupied Palestinian Territory 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War
Document:How to Keep Going During the Next Energy Crisis	Article	25 September 2021	Margaret Thatcher Privatisation Chris Edwards Richard Seymour	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:Parody Britain and the Death of the Fourth Estate	Article	9 December 2021	Michael Gove Boris Johnson Fourth Estate Dominic Cummings Rishi Sunak Carrie Symonds Allegra Stratton Munira Mirza Lee Cain	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	1 October 2021	Cressida Dick UK/Home Office/Investigatory Powers Tribunal Sarah Everard Spycops scandal Wayne Couzens Kate Wilson Mark Kennedy	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:Returning the Sausages	Article	24 September 2024	Israeli–Palestinian conflict Genocide Labour Party International Court of Justice Apartheid Keir Starmer Two-state solution UNGA	"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	28 September 2023	"Climate change" Fossil fuel Equinor Rosebank oil field Omnicide Ithaca Energy	Rosebank is the next step in the grotesque experience we are all living through: omnicide.
New Climate Reality, New Media	Article	10 August 2021	Propaganda "Climate change" "Disinformation" IPCC Stanley Johnson Extinction Rebellion COP26	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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