The response of the media-political class to the Mandelson scandal has been insightful. It veers from the ‘who could have ...

Scotland’s Economics Festival is coming to Leith, just outside Edinburgh. The festival brings together ‘leading economists, commentators, campaigners, and curious citizens to explore ...

AI DATA CENTRE PROPOSAL GOES TO EDINBURGH COUNCIL TOMORROW This is an email I’ve just written and sent to every Edinburgh ...

Why Some Scandals Cut Through Certain political scandals resonate because they tap into strong, pre-existing narratives. The Profumo affair of the early 1960s, for example, was connected with a ...

Mandelson, Prince Andrew, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, among others, have been exposed in the recent release of Epstein files.

We are living through a scandal that eclipses anything we have seen in the post-war era, a set of shocks to the British establishment from which it may not recover, explored briefly here: Britain, ...

Geoff King is a freelance writer of multi-genre fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He has self-published two novels and has work published in The Rabbit Hole: Weird Stories Volume One, Northern ...

The British State’s refusal to negotiate an end to the Union is well documented, and it lays out starkly that this isn’t a ...

Orwell quotes are everywhere today as the USA descends into fascism in a plan which Reform UK has as their blueprint 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 ...

From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn When the Swedish playwright August Strindberg was asked how his career was going ...