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Handsel by Robert Crawford
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (238+ words) Bella Caledonia Handsel by Robert Crawford 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poem without which, it’s no exaggeration to say, much of the…...
Object to the MachairWind Proposal Today
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (231+ words) The proposal threatens to desecrate landscapes and seascapes that have incalculable cultural and ecological significance and natural beauty. But they are also living communities that depend on visitors that are drawn to the very qualities that are under threat: peacefulness,…...
Celebrating Hugh MacDiarmid
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (227+ words) Happy birthday Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) – born #OnThisDay, 11 August, 1892. Here’s a small collection of films and essays about the great writer. This is a more accessible film from the same year from the BBC, Hugh MacDiarmid ‘Rebel Poet’: On…...
Hüzün: Binhead, Burnham and Britain
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (283+ words) “The job of government, as Starmer sees it, is to administer for and protect the wealth of the rich. There is no price too high to pay for performing that imperative task” This rage on the part of the powerful…...
We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (325+ words) Bella Caledonia We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson Scottish Politics at the moment seems to consist of short-termist NE pundits serving Big Oil as plumes of smoke literally engulf the city of Aberdeen, ex-politicians obsessing about Nicola Sturgeon,…...
Climate change is a class-based disaster
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (133+ words) This is from the excellent Equator magazine. This week, Equator’s Mohsin Hamid talks to the award-winning writer Amitav Ghosh about how Western NGOs and climate experts have focused their apocalyptic thinking on Bangladesh — often to the detriment of the Bangladeshis…...
Where to Lay This Heart
1+ week, 1+ day ago (172+ words) A new poetry collection has just been published by Mohammed Moussa of the Gaza Poets Society. It’s available now in the Gaza Poets Society shop. Where to Lay This Heart features over 200 poems. These are elegies, poems mourning a lost…...
The Besieged: Britain as Absurdistan
1+ week, 3+ day ago (874+ words) Tim Shipman, a colleague at The Spectator, says in his piece on Liddle that he was “a guilty pleasure, someone who would write down what the rest of us were thinking”. Michael Gove called him a ‘genius’. Strangely, it’s a…...
Scotland and Screamadelica: Co-option of culture at the Closing Ceremony
1+ week, 4+ day ago (563+ words) Sunday night marked the end of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games in the Hydro, with a sparkly, hyper-saturated display of national pride. Unicorns, traffic cones, bagpipes and a range of talent from different artists hit the stage and the screens. The…...
Modern Climate Change Denial – Bella Caledonia
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1265+ words) Modern Climate Change Denial Bella Caledonia Modern Climate Change Denial The current heatwave in Europe, and Africa, as of early August 2026, has thrown modern climate change denial, into clear relief. It is a wide-ranging phenomenon from the old-fashioned, complete denial....