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"In October 2007, writers Mike Small and Kevin Williamson launched Bella Caledonia at the Radical Book Fair in Edinburgh. Since then, Bella has consistently explored ideas of self-determination and offered Scotland's most robust political commentary. In the run up to Scottish independence referendum, international interest grew and Bella Caledonia had more than 500,000 unique users a month, with a peak of one million in August - in 2015, the site was named as one of the top 10 political blogs in the UK by Cision. This anthology, curated by Mike Small, is a flavour of Bella's output over these 14 years the editor's pick. Bella is aligned to no political party and sees herself as the bastard child of parent publications too good for this world; from Calgacus to Red Herring, from Harpies & Quines to the Black Dwarf. Under Mike's editorship, Bella has developed a 'Fifth Estate' as a way of disrupting the passive relationship of old media, creating something more active and appropriate for the 21st century - it's about concentration of ownership, and bringing together radical coverage with cultural analysis. Hence the plethora of wide-ranging voices in this anthology, each representing outlier viewpoints in contemporary society - novelists, poets, bloggers and journalists publishing in non-mainstream media outlets, and the social media. ""Bella Caledonia has been a flagship for progressive thought in Scotland, providing a platform for informed and creative writing, advocating a progressive and independent nation fit for the future."" Stuart Cosgrove ""Bella has been to be a constant thorn in the side of the powerful voices who would prefer that conventional wisdom went unchallenged, that awkward questions went unasked, and bold solutions went unheard."" Peter Geoehgan"

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Author:   Mike Small ,  Kathleen Jamie ,  AL Kennedy ,  Meaghan Delahunt
Publisher:   Leamington Books
Imprint:   BELLA CALEDONIA
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9781914090493

ISBN 10:   1914090497
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

2007-2021, An Introduction Mike Small 13 Balmoral Buyout AndyWightman 29 Vote Britain Alan Bissett 37 Dinner with NoVoters or What I wanted to say before the Pudding hit the fan Peter Arnott 57 We need to talk about leadership... Laura Eaton-Lewis 63 'It's Time':The Independence of Gough Whitlam Meaghan Delahunt 73 Getting out of the Kitchen Katie Galloghly-Swan 79 Not Nationality but Language Scott Hames 83 Coulport, Devo Max and Imperial Britain Brian Quail 41 The Sea Inside Kathleen Jamie 45 The Shetland Card George Rosie 51 8 Scottish Independence and PostCapitalism Pat Kane 111 81 The Sinking of theWhale Maxwell Macleod 111 Donald Trump and the Second Sight Alastair McIntosh 11121 TheTheatre of Humiliation George Gunn 147 Means and Ends Caitlin Logan 153 Fear, Loathing and Gentrifying Paradise Neil Cooper 11157 From Paris to Nantes, StateViolence 1968-2018 Chloe Farand 11185 Learning Gaelic, Learning Scotland: Normalising Langauge Abi Lightbody 11193 Racism,The New Right and Media Failure Amna Saleem 11197 A Toxic Culture AL Kennedy 111127 Automation IrvineWelsh 11133 In Defence of Nostalgia Paul Tritschler 143 The trouble with the council tax is the sound your buzzer makes Alistair Davidson 18988189 9 The Rehabilitation of Gordon Brown Jamie Maxwell 11201 Cranstackie Dougie Strang 11205 The Art of Living Together Mairi McFayden 11211 Patchy and Negligible Claire Squires 11217 The Capital of Amnesia Christopher Silver 11239 Take me to Abaton Mike Small 11243 When I Needed a Neighbour Alison Phipps 11249 Magical Thinking Rory Scothorne 255 Slavery DerivedWealth in Scotland Today Iain MacKinnon 263 Patriarchy,Theocracy and Tragedy:The Dark Shadow of Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes Cait O'Neill McCullagh 269 55Years Ago in Madrid Stuart Christie 11221 The Jobby, Brazil, and Nuveen George Kerevan 11223 Notes From Underground #7: I Only Have One Prediction forYou Dougald Hine 11227 10 Prince Philip was the Godfather of Anglo- British Nationalism Adam Ramsay The rise, fall and rise of party and movement and the Changing Idea of Scotland 11285 11289 Passing the Mundair Test Raman Mundair 11277 Gerry Hassan

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Mike Small is a writer, journalist, author and publisher. He has written for the Guardian, Sunday Herald, Sunday National, Open Democracy, Variant, Lobster and Z Magazine. He is currently working on a biography of Patrick Geddes and a history of Scottish Anarchism. He has edited Bella Caledonia since 2007.

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