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Bella Caledonia: Scottish politicians and writers in call to remove the PKK from the Terrorism list

December 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Last week saw the launch of an international petition for delisting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the PKK. Its thousand initial signatures include almost 100 parliamentarians and three dozen lawyers, as well as municipal councillors, academics, […]

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National Politics

Damian Killeen – Scotland: The View from Italy

December 20, 2019 David Shirreff 0

What would it take for Scots to make the transition from a ‘subject’ mentality to a ‘citizen’ mindset that could conceive something as radical and transformative as a written Constitution for an Independent Scottish Republic? […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray: Spain – The Scotland Papers

November 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ben Wray reports for Bella Caledonia from Spain where the leaked ‘Scotland Papers’ expose a bizarre set of relations between Scotland and Spain, and examples of paranoia, bullying and racism in the Spanish Foreign Ministry. […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray – The Authoritarian Spanish Nationalism of Pedro Sánchez

November 8, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In every Social Democrat there is concealed an autocratic nationalist. Social Democracy is determined by a political mentality from the 19th century. It cannot adapt, but will simply die out, as we are seeing in […]

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EU politics

Bella Caledonia: The extremism at the heart of the Spanish national project

October 14, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The sentences issued by the Constitutional Court in Madrid today were surprising even to close observers of the Spanish justice system. Yet the writing has been on this particular courtroom wall for a long time. […]

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Climate Crisis

Bella Caledonia: Scotland’s Degrowth Commission

August 19, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is something that should be occuring everywhere in the industrialised nations. Read here

EU politics

Bella Caledonia: Clara Ponsati – The Time for Action is Now

March 28, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Scots have a great democratic tradition and you just can’t keep it down. Read here  

EU politics

Bella Caledonia: St Andrews University must defend Clara Ponsati

March 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Hardly is she eligible for s senior railcard and Clara Ponsati is to be extradited from Scotland to Spain for rebellion. What senior citizens get up to these days? Ms Ponsati, who does research at […]

Finance

Bella Caledonia: In Defence of Social Media

March 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“At what point did politics move from being a competing narrative of possible futures and become instead the wasteland of our sub-conscious fears exploited for a lucrative buck by Etonian snake-oil salesmen?” Read here  

Media

Bella Caledonia: Wrapping Paper Fury

November 21, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a good account of the newest success of the campaign Stop Funding Hate in the UK. It is an attempt to convince companies not to advertise in media that propagate hate against migrants […]

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Austerity

The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective

December 4, 2023 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]

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Visions of Inequality – From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanović

October 9, 2023 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Although the topic of inequality is vital to today’s discussions about politics and economics, it is surprising how little importance was attributed to it in the past. Until the […]

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