Life Comes at you Fast

Speymouth December 1, 2025

Only a few days ago the entire Unionist commentariat were jubilant. Rachel Reeves had Shot the Nationalist Fox (again) and stamped down those belligerent Scots by telling them they’d never be allowed to vote on independence again, and it didn’t matter how they voted or who they elected. Across the board, the consensus was that […] Source

2025 Readers Survey

Speymouth December 1, 2025

Each year we do a readers’ feedback survey as we try and take stock and get organised for the year ahead. It’s really simple, just three questions: What would you like to see more of from Bella in 2026? What are we doing well? What do we need to get better at? Source

Drifting North

Speymouth December 1, 2025

I interviewed Dominic Hinde, author of Drifting North, finding a sustainable future in Scotland’s past (Manchester University Press, 2025). It’s an unusually readable book you’ve written. You’ve managed to avoid jargon and although you make recurring references to science and the history of technologies and how energy works, you have done it in a way […] Source

The lie that protects the rich from tax rises

Speymouth November 27, 2025

Better late than never, Rachel Reeves finally followed the lead of the SNP Government in Holyrood and announced that the heinous two child cap on benefits will finally be abolished from May next year, cue a load of hypocritical Labour MPs trying to pretend that they supported this measure all along…

Hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right

Speymouth November 25, 2025

Racists complain that migrants don’t want to learn English and integrate, but when migrants do want to learn English and integrate, racists mount a protest outside the school where English language lessons are being given to the mothers of some of the pupils, insisting that they are “protecting our kids” from…