As the summer comes to an end, and records suggest that the [UK Summer 2025 ‘almost certainly’ the hottest on record] , consider that it might be the coolest you’ll experience in …
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…
The Israeli military illegally abducted the crew of the Global Sumud Flotilla ship Alma, including Greta Thunberg and Sumud leader Thiago Ávila, after attacking them in international waters last ni…
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis famously said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This is true of Britain too. This week saw the r…
Donald Trump has launched a war on Venezuela, with the US military bombing the capital Caracas and capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores in the early hours of the morning. A…
Continuing our tracking of polls in the lead up to the Holyrood elections (see The King in the North and tracking Holyrood and Senedd Polls), today YouGov published new polling. The headlines are: …
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‘SNP on track to win 67 seats in Holyrood landslide’ screams the headline. In polling just out, YouGov projects that the SNP is currently “highly likely to win a majority, based o…
As Jamie McIntyre has put it: “The Sarwar-Offord stushie is certainly revealing which of our journalists are reporters of politics, and which are participants.” For the avoidance of dou…
The medium is mostly the written word. But the political cartoon has its own history. The Times is leading from the front as we now have a few days left before local elections in England and the Gr…
We’re Entering the Spin Room now as the countdown to the Holyrood election begins. With not long to go now the political parties and the media are busy trying to re-frame expectations as the…
