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Cultural and Ecological Repair On the Other Side of Sorrow by Mairi McFadyen bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/27/c...

Were the Highlands ever colonised? And other stupid questions bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/24/w...

Brexit has made Scotland £30 billion a year worse off. Here's how we voted.

It's beautiful how Burnham's route maps neatly over the proposed HS2 rail link, once, famously championed as a Saviour of the Union because it would ‘Unite the Country’ open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Whitewashing Women’s History, Criminalising Peaceful Protest | Donna McLean kicks off her new column investigating this week’s attack on civil rights bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/19/w...

Highland Clearances – interview with Prof James Hunter bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/17/h...

Ally MacLeod and Steve Clarke, Jimmy Johnstone and Grant Hanley, Charlie Nicholas and John Greig, Alan Hansen and Willie Miller, James McFadden and Roy Aitken, all stand, obviously, as the perfect expression of Gregory Smith’s Caledonian Antisyzygy open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Judiciary, Genocide and the freeze framed fireball of climate chaos bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/15/j...

Some notes on the website re-launch with some technical and editorial upgrades bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/15/b...

From Mossmorran to the Auchtertool Data Centre. In Fife, history is repeating itself #Greenwash #ArtificialIntelligence open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

On Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicisation Without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/15/h...

If it's endlessly annoying watching the World Cup through an English lens, in an era of social media that is no longer a bounded media narrative. The 'UK' broadcast media doesn't have a grip on the stories we share - and are told - anymore bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/13/s...

The Empire Comes Home: Race, Power, and the Violence on Scottish Streets by Raman Mundair/Deviji RM Jaan bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/12/t...

Cold Hard Rage. The mainstream media's policy of appeasement has been exposed. As the far-right violence intensifies and escalates they will have to be held responsible for their complicity in all of this: open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Everything Has Already Been Said | On the Scottish independence referendum, Corbynism, Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor, and why the last serious attempts at change tell us something we need to hear... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/10/e...

Can you imagine talking about England and English culture in this way on what's called 'national television'? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/09/o...

Eh? Aye? Resisting Scotland’s Hyperscale Data Centre Revolution bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/08/e...

Eh? Aye? Resisting Scotland’s Hyperscale Data Centre Revolution bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/08/e...

Trump’s regime is as despotic and violent as that of Brazil in 1970 or Argentina in 1978 or Russia in 2018. But perhaps there is an opportunity here to expose the Trump administration to the cold light of day ... open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

All the Scotland World Cup Songs in one place: Aye Hobos, Belle and Sebastian, Colonel Mustard, IDMacG - It Only Takes One Lion, Skerryvore, The Return of the Hampden Roar, The Scheme, 2AM Eternal Kick-Off, Canada Mexico USA Let’s Go! - Tommy Reckless bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/05/w...

Trump’s regime is as despotic and violent as that of Brazile in 1970 or Argentina in 1978 or Russia in 2018. But perhaps there is an opportunity here to expose the Trump administration to the cold light of day: open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

World Cup Beats - choose Scotland's official world cup anthem bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/05/w...

Now What? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/04/n...

Problems with the Areas of Linguistic Significance by Màrtainn Mac a’ Bhàillidh bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/01/p...

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