Police recover human remains from home devastated by fire
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer and political dissident was a leading voice in the 2011 Arab […] Source
Accomplice in Moray drug deal assault and robbery is jailed
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Memory of much-loved Highland League club volunteer honoured with boardroom tribute
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Historic building in Glasgow city centre put on market for over £11 million
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I visited Glasgow’s trendiest new Barras food outlet – here’s my verdict
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Starmer opens the door to the moral abominations of Farage
Speymouth
It was always predictable that a Labour government led by Keir Starmer would get very unpopular very quickly. Starmer’s promise of “change” was always hollow. A corporate centrist hell bent on opening the NHS to privatisation was never going to deliver the meaningful and far reaching change that Labour voters in…
High street giant to close all UK stores after collapsing into administration
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The Bagpipes: A Fresh Look at a Familiar Symbol
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The Bagpipes: A Cultural History, Richard McLauchlan, Hurst and Company, £20. Review by Vivien Williams Richard McLauchlan’s The Bagpipes: A Cultural History sets out to do something both audacious and overdue: to present the story of the bagpipes not as a narrow antiquarian subject, but as a sweeping cultural history that bridges myth and fact, […] Source
Stephen Flynn calls on Ed Miliband to change Westminster oil and gas regime
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Whisky chiefs call for ‘distracted’ UK Government to act on US tariffs
Speymouth
Your Party, My Party, Their Party
Speymouth
Hopes for a new party of the Left in Britain appear to have broken down as splits appear just as they attempt to launch. One simple element of disagreement is the very nature of the project and its structures. How democratic should it be and how should it be organised? Some groups, such as the […] Source
Scotland risks being dragged down by the Anglo-British nationalist far right
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The far right rally which was organised by the criminal thug Stephen Yaxley-Lennon in London last weekend is an alarming harbinger of what is to come. Scotland needs to pay attention, because if we don’t take action to assert our right to self-determination, those far right demonstrators massed in the streets…
The Trauma Industrial Complex
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The trauma economy: When lived experience becomes commodified content. Bella readers will be familiar with Darren McGarvey’s work, as a musician, public speaker, and award-winning author. You can read his writing for Bella here. His previous writing includes Poverty Safari (Luath), which won the 2018 Orwell Prize, and The Social Distance Between Us. His latest […] Source
The free speech hypocrisy of the right
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