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 ...

Bella is delighted to be part of the Pass the Mic 2026 Opinion Writing programme. Pass the Mic is an essential project to diversify the media in Scotland. The programme runs from March 2026 – November ...

“There is a huge, generational shift happening in Scotland which I think is barely acknowledged in its implications – the collapse in religious observance and power is deeply significant” writes ...

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 ...

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I don’t know what was the greater stroke of genius; getting Taylor Swift to do the theme song or releasing Toy Story 5 the week that Sir Keir Starmer announced that the government are enacting a ban ...

Given Kate Forbes speaking at an event in London co-founded by Jordan Peterson attended by hard-right politicians, influencers, and far-right European parties, we’re giving this a re-up from 2025 … ...

“[The landscape] is more real than the people who inhabit it. Drowned in eternal mist, illuminated by a decrepit sun or by emphemeral meteors, it is a world of greyness.” “Now not only did I have my ...

Borrowed Land by Kapka Kassabova (Jonathan Cape, 2026) reviewed by Rob Gibson. This is a crucial time in the global struggle to tackle climate chaos, where landscapes are affected by new electricity ...

The very first article in the very first issue of Bella Caledonia, was by Brian Quail [read Ross Ahlfeld’s tribute here]. It’s reproduced below. Later, we would meet in Glasgow to discuss plans to ...

Reform, Restore, Conserve, Britain’s various flavours of far-right politics are in the ascendancy and feeding-off the collapse of mainstream parties. They are venturing into new extremes as they ...

The Scottish Languages Act passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament this week is the most important language legislation for Gaelic in twenty years and the first ever for the Scots language. The ...