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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The Conservatives have pledged they will increase the number of deportations to 150k/year

- while significantly reducing the size of the civil service
- without increasing government spending and taxation.
- and opposing mandatory identification.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 21h

Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Enoch Powell are the ghosts haunting Late Britain
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The Haunted House of Late Britain

Late Britain is like one giant haunted house, with ghosts everywhere.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 1d

The Haunted House of Late Britain
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The Haunted House of Late Britain

Late Britain is like one giant haunted house, with ghosts everywhere.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 2d

where?

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when, potentially, most of the UK population is breaking the law? Can government even function at that point? asks Stewart Bremner ...

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Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest

The UK government is planning to clamp down even harder on peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza. Given their support of the Israel — through the supply of weapons parts, troop training and…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 2d

Mark Perryman calls time on the forthcoming Thatcher Centenary bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/06/t...

Thatcherism Today

Mark Perryman calls time on the forthcoming Thatcher Centenary. Margaret Thatcher’s 13 October 2025 centenary is a moment to reflect on how she, or more accurately ‘Thatcherism’, …

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 2d

Palantir Technologies – the surveillance company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel – has secured at least 24 contracts across key UK public institutions, and is now working with both the Israeli and the British military. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/06/p...

Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and Britain

Palantir Technologies – the surveillance company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel – has secured at least 24 contracts across key UK public institutions, and is now working with both the Israeli…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 4d

Golf and the Post-Literate Society
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Golf and the Post-Literate Society

If society is fractal, the scenes from Bethpage Black golf course represent the manifestation of the worst of Trump’s America.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 6d

Meadowsweet
Kathleen Jamie

Tradition suggests that certain of the Gaelic women poets were buried face down. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/02/m...

Meadowsweet, Kathleen Jamie

MeadowsweetKathleen Jamie Tradition suggests that certain of the Gaelic women poets were buried face down.So they buried her, and turned home,a drab psalmhanging about them like haar,not knowing th…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 6d

Deluded Democracy bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/02/03/d...

Deluded Democracy

In Fugue State Britain, feudal hangovers and anachronistic establishments mean power remains in the hands of a chumocracy dominated by Lady Mone and her ilk. The last few days has revealed Britain …

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 6d

Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul, “Bàrdachd” bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/02/a...

Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul, “Bàrdachd”

BàrdachdAonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul * Tha i mar bharaille de sgadan saillte:chan eil agad ach do chròga stobadh ann, agus dòrlach a thoirt a-mach,reamhar is tiugh leis a’ bhuntàta.Stoban t-ìm na mhea…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 6d

Ultimo Democracy {2015] How has she still got a knighthood? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2015/08/28/u...

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 7d

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 7d

thanks

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 7d

9 Miles from Gaza bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/02/9...

9 Miles from Gaza

The Israeli military illegally abducted the crew of the Global Sumud Flotilla ship Alma, including Greta Thunberg and Sumud leader Thiago Ávila, after intercepting them in international waters last…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 7d

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😀thanks!

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 7d

Design testing for feedback. Which graphic do you prefer? 1,2,3?

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 7d

lowercase October bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/01/l...

lowercase October

lower case highlights cultural events, new releases, publish short reviews and recommendations for works across all genres. Our focus is on small and micro press, radical publishers, and events fro…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 8d

Its not a technical question, I can ban anyone, its a question of what is the threshold between wild disagreement and bad faith contributors

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 8d

The Global Sumud Flotilla heading for Gaza is due to enter Israeli-controlled waters tonight. The Italian naval ship accompanying them has offered to move anyone who wants to onto their ship before that. Italy has said once the flotilla enters Israeli-controlled waters, they cannot protect them.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in other people who moderate sites what you do about commenters who only ShitPost?

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI September bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/30/i...

ICYMI September

I spent the last few days hunting down an article that I needed to reference and realised that there’s such a vast bank of content on Bella’s archive that we need to find ways to make i…

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 8d

The Sarwar Quandary bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/30/t... #LabourConference25

The Sarwar Quandary

All political parties are in trouble, for different reasons, but the Scottish Labour Party has it’s own special problems. It was very recently heralded as the solution to Labour, to Britain a…

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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 10d

'A lot of this is chaos as the hegemony of British politics disintegrates. Polling is speculation, and all could change in the coming months. But there are possibilities that out of this chaos comes a better future for Scotland.'
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The Political Disorder of Late Britain

British politics is undergoing a huge upheaval, as parties of the Left struggle to be born and the mainstream two-party system collapses. British politics is dividing along two axis: between the le…

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