Bella Caledonia – independence – self-determination – autonomy
2 days ago · Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021. Curated by Mike Small, this anthology is a flavour of Bella’s output over these 14 years ― the editor’s pick.
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Bella Review and Feedback 2024 – Bella Caledonia
Dec 27, 2024 · The quality of journalism on Bella has been exceptional these last 12 months, and it’s now the only ‘news’ site I look at every day. The comments section over the last 2-3 months has turned into the Wild West and is becoming a bit of a turn off, but I think that will naturally shake itself out over time.
Bella Themes for 2024
Jan 2, 2024 · This requires new types of media, new types of thinking and new types of action beyond a) the relentless loop of ‘debating’ climate change b) the endless engagement with tired broken processes (“COP56 has promised a breakthrough”) c) looking to new forms of direct action and building methods of resilience here in Scotland.
Magazine - Bella Caledonia
Issue 1 – March 2017 Features: Joanna Blythman, Sara Shaarawi, Adam Ramsay and Gordon Guthrie.. Gordon Guthrie on ‘After Brexit’. This is an extract from his new book Winning The Second Independence Referendum – a manifesto for Scotland and the EU after Brexit. Gordon Guthrie argues that the SNP must simply ‘remain firm whilst the UK shakes itself to pieces, a island of stability in ...
About Us - Bella Caledonia
In Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992), Gray proposed a possible female figurehead to represent Scotland: “Since the 18th century sculptors and political cartoonists have often represented nations as single people, usually robust and beautiful women with names like La France, Italia, Germania.
Alasdair Gray’s Bella Caledonia
Dec 30, 2019 · In Gray’s story Bella is a metaphor for a nation. As Kirsten Sterling tells us in (“Scotland Deformed?”“The label “Bella Caledonia” below the portrait of the main character on p. 45 of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things (1992) suggests that Gray wants us to read the character Bella Baxter as a female personification of the Scottish nation, …
Self-Determination, Autonomy, Independence – Bella Caledonia
Aug 16, 2022 · Hi Alex – 100% agree that ‘ a “better Scottish government” can ONLY be realised by securing the powers of Independence.” Bit I think being completely uncritical of our current governance does not serve the cause of independence …
History – Bella Caledonia
What We Do. Bella Caledonia was founded in 2007 by Mike Small and Kevin Williamson – following the idea ‘don’t hate the media become the media’ – we invite you to write for us – share us – and support us. We are open to submissions and collaborations – our whole purpose is to create a platform for new writers, artists, filmmakers (etc)
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021
This is a book celebrating fourteen years of publishing and collaborations. We have taken the idea of ‘self-determination’ and began to ask what would that mean for us as individuals, communities, towns and cities, not just as a nation?