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Richard Bruce
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Ex Registered Nurse, Software Engineer, Computer Engineer. Now retired for 9 years. An Independent Scotland is my aim now, because it's normal.
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David Pratt: Donald Trump’s bombing of Nigeria is simply showmanship
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David Pratt: Donald Trump’s bombing of Nigeria is simply showmanship
NIGERIANS call Gombe the “jewel in the savannah”. But nothing much glitters in this impoverished region
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December 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Ruth Wishart: The Royal festive farce is a reminder of a ridiculous institution
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Ruth Wishart: The Royal festive farce is a reminder of a ridiculous institution
OK, it was a slow news day. Christmas usually is, barring unforeseen disasters. But that neither explains nor excuses the BBC’s “top story”…
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December 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Farage’s Glasgow Dog Whistle bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/03/f...
Farage’s Glasgow Dog Whistle
Reform UK’s attack on the children of Glasgow may at first seem an oddity, a bizarre lurch even for them. But, in fact, it has direct continuity with some of their most extreme views, many of…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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'Dinosaurs still exist': Anger as columnist attacks Glaswegians over 'poor English'
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'Dinosaurs still exist': Anger as columnist attacks Glaswegians over 'poor English'
A NEWSPAPER columnist has prompted anger and been branded a “dinosaur” after attacking Glaswegians over their English skills ...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/30/i...
It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To
The breakdown of British politics that has come from the collapse of the Conservative and Labour parties has opened up opportunities for new populist forces on both the left and the right. Into thi…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The shambles continues, maybe call themselves the Shambolic Party.
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'Witch hunt': Your Party at war over expulsions as Zarah Sultana boycotts event
ZARAH Sultana has boycotted the first day of the founding conference of Your Party, the organisation she co-founded with Jeremy Corbyn, as the event…
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November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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David Pratt: "Trump is simply once again lobbying for peace on Putin’s terms, and that is a near certain recipe for disaster."
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Trump’s repeated lobbying for peace on Putin’s terms is a recipe for disaster
In a recent interview with The Economist’s Inside Geopolitics programme, former US national security adviser John Bolton recounts an interesting…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Lesley Riddoch: Rachel Reeves's attack on the SNP shows Labour's fear
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Lesley Riddoch: Rachel Reeves's attack on the SNP shows Labour's fear
Rachel Reeves gave the SNP a bit of a kicking during her Budget speech
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November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A Labour vote in Scotland is a vote not to matter
You’ve got to hand it to the Labour party, they are certainly consistent, consistent in their shafting of Scottish workers. It’s almost as though, despite Labour’s protestations t…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Lesley Riddoch " The men’s team have done their bit. Time for the rest of us to get back out there."
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Lesley Riddoch: Scotland’s team have given us much-needed hope – now it’s our turn
So that’s what it feels like. Hope flooding a country. I don’t need to mention the cause. The whole of Scotland is still buzzing
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November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Scotland the Brave bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/19/s...
Scotland the Brave
Suddenly, Renton’s famous moorland observation doesn’t ring so true. Last night, the stage was set at Hampden for yet another inglorious failure, but Scotland changed the script and wro…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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‘Liberation’ and the JTPI Fallout bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/15/l...
‘Liberation’ and the JTPI Fallout
Until recently, the nativist turn of the nationalist movement has been left ignored. The idea that a Scottish democracy should be established by an appeal to the UN is so ridiculous that most peopl…
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November 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Paul Kavanagh: Live on BBC right now is a full-on far-right assault
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Paul Kavanagh: Live on BBC right now is a full-on far-right assault
ACCUSATIONS of BBC bias are nothing new to supporters of Scottish independence
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November 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Fake News and the War on the BBC bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/10/f...
Fake News and the War on the BBC
The war on the BBC by Britain’s right-wing press has been a constant for the past thirty years, attempting to threaten and control the public broadcaster to yield to their political agenda. T…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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'We cannot be passive': Humza Yousaf warns against rise in Islamophobia
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'We cannot be passive': Humza Yousaf warns against rise in Islamophobia
Conspiracy theories and lies told about Muslims today are “hauntingly reminiscent” of the language used about Jewish people in the 1930s, former…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Andrew Tickell: The real reason behind the stripping of former prince’s titles
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Andrew Tickell: The real reason behind the stripping of former prince’s titles
The phrase 'these censures are deemed necessary' gives the game away. Notice the emphasis on necessity
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November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Ruth Wishart: What does the political graveyard of new parties offer Scotland?
There is one party surging ahead in Scotland, England and Wales and that’s the 'none of the above' option
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November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Dublin folk band Lankum Release Devastating ‘Ghost Town’ Cover bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/01/d...
Dublin folk band Lankum Release Devastating ‘Ghost Town’ Cover
Dublin folk band Lankum have released a devastating cover of The Specials 1981 number one hit ‘Ghost Town’. As they say the more things change, the more they stay the same. As Klof mag writes: &#82…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Randy 2 is taking it awfully hard. Too bad!
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His Royal Harness
Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Andrew was to be stripped of his royal titles and would move out of his home at the Royal Lodge in Windsor. And in case anyone has forgotten, there was an Andre...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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'If not us, who?': Top lawyers investigate private prosecution of Prince Andrew
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'If not us, who?': Top lawyers investigate private prosecution of Prince Andrew
LAWYERS have been instructed to consider a private prosecution against Prince Andrew over allegations of sexual assault, corruption and misconduct…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I really should be in the shed making things and it's freezing cauld oot, but I have a warm room here indoors, coffee, and a pain in the arse cat needing let in and out every 30 seconds to attend to.
Plus.... I have to tackle resetting the clock.
Then of course, the Celtic game later.
October 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Well, at least making a start on today's projects.
October 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Gregg has wee doogie down to a T
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The ‘I’ Word
Douglas Alexander said a UK Labour government 'would take independence seriously if SNP win majority', which immediately made me think they would not.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Messy Democracy: Ireland’s Reshaped Presidency bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/m...
Messy Democracy: Ireland’s Reshaped Presidency
As Ireland elects its new President, Claire McNab offers a historical overview of the role and its prospects.  Ireland is on its fifteenth instance of a task which Scotland has never done: electing…
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October 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Owen Jones: My analysis of the Caerphilly by-election – hope after all?
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Owen Jones: My analysis of the Caerphilly by-election – hope after all?
WHAT a humiliation for both Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage, delivered by the working-class of the Welsh Valleys.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM