Mike Small

Corporate media in Scotland is bland and uniform. Not only is it overwhelmingly, disproportionately male pale and stale (Pass the Mic report that only 2.1% of those quoted or interviewed in the new…

The idea of Edinburgh as just an advertising space that you literally project commodities onto couldn’t be more apt. But for those of us (and there are many) who have been warning of the gros…

It’s been revealed that the Attorney General’s office gave contact details of the CPS and counter terror police, to the Israel government, during an investigation into protests at an El…

Mike Small looks to the historical precedents of anti-imperialist struggles for lessons in resisting Israeli atrocities. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Om…

Attention Beats Money. This is so great, so insightful. But it is ALL about ‘memetics’ & ‘narrative’ and ‘vertical video performance’ and style. There is lit…

Late Britain is such a dark farce, a pantomime of incoherent authoritarianism, dismal prospects and dysfunctional politics. This week British police arrested an 83-year-old priest for holding up a …

A few thoughts on the idea of a new political party of the Left and the state of  Scottish and British politics in light of discussions over the past few days. First, the need for a Left socialist …

We frequently point to the failings of the media – particularly the tabloid press and the fringes of far-right broadcasting and blogging. But such is the shift to the right that some of the m…

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…