Ten years after Brexit, everybody is angry. The age of democracy has metamorphosised into the age of force. The concept of International Law as set out by the United Nations – peace, dignity and ...

This text has been adapted from a talk given at the conference Community, Resistance and Resilience: Celebrating 50 Years of The Making of the Crofting Community, which took place at UHI Centre for ...

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In our ongoing tour of the best podcasts around, we visit Talk Media hosted by Stuart Cosgrove and Eamonn O’Neill. Check them out here: Talk Media This is ‘a weekly forensic analysis of how the media ...

After the recent conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of James Hunter’s The Making of the Crofting Community – one of the most significant and influential books ever published about the ...

A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over ...

Just to say that we have migrated all of our content to our new hosts. After many months of being under the protection of Cloudflare – we have a new technical solution that should mean that things run ...

In a disastrous ruling, the Court of Appeal in London has overruled the High Court and upheld the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Defining a protest group as ...

The esteemed journalist Peter MacMahon wrote this week in The Times: “Picture the scene: a bright, crisp afternoon in Edinburgh’s New Town. Three podiums are set out in Charlotte Square. Out of a ...

Our ‘rewards’ for supporting our 2026 crowdfunding are just a thank you really. But one reward is part of a long-term project we have had here at Bella, that is charting the toxic legacy of the ...

It’s been a long-standing argument on Bella that the media is dominated by a handful of publications and columnists who all say the same thing and nurture a crushingly narrow bandwidth of thinking. We ...

The election highlighted both the poverty of thinking in the political class and the narrowness of outlook in the media class. The media is structurally biased, opposed to anyone who proposes real ...