https://ayewecan.com Fortune Favours the Brave Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:06:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 147730315 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/05/03/election-2022-scalloways-socialist-champion-bids-for-re-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=election-2022-scalloways-socialist-champion-bids-for-re-election Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:06:15 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2022/07/11/election-2022-scalloways-socialist-champion-bids-for-re-election/ Six months into the pandemic, as the public health crisis and its gross mishandling in London hardened public opinion in support of Scottish independence, Shetland made a rare appearance in UK headlines. The islands’ local authority had just voted to formally explore options for achieving “financial and political self-determination”, a move seized upon by unionist […] ]]> 17846 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/05/03/election-2022-from-the-student-union-to-the-city-chambers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=election-2022-from-the-student-union-to-the-city-chambers Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:06:17 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2022/07/11/election-2022-from-the-student-union-to-the-city-chambers/ Benn Rapson’s face is instantly recognisable to many Glasgow students. Just over a year ago, he was elected as president of the students’ union at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland’s third-largest university, with around three-quarters of the 1,123 votes – a testament to his frenetic campaigning over his five years of involvement in the student […] ]]> 17847 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/05/04/election-2022-community-party-aims-to-double-headaches-for-council-officials/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=election-2022-community-party-aims-to-double-headaches-for-council-officials Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:06:19 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2022/07/11/election-2022-community-party-aims-to-double-headaches-for-council-officials/ Jim Bollan is proud of the number of times he has been hauled before the watchdog for councillors’ conduct. Most recently, the veteran socialist councillor was brought before the Standards Commission to answer 37 allegations brought by the CEO of West Dunbartonshire Council after he made public details of a hushed-up internal probe into corruption […] ]]> 17848 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/05/04/election-2022-breaking-new-ground-for-the-greens-in-blantyre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=election-2022-breaking-new-ground-for-the-greens-in-blantyre Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:06:20 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2022/07/11/election-2022-breaking-new-ground-for-the-greens-in-blantyre/ As a young schoolkid in primary three, David McClemont was given a homework exercise where he had to show he could use various words in a sentence. “One of the words was ‘witch’ and so I wrote ‘Maggie Thatcher is a witch’,” he recalls. “My teacher must have been quite left-wing, because I don’t remember […] ]]> 17849 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/05/04/election-2022-fuel-poverty-takes-centre-stage-for-paisley-campaigner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=election-2022-fuel-poverty-takes-centre-stage-for-paisley-campaigner Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:06:21 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2022/07/11/election-2022-fuel-poverty-takes-centre-stage-for-paisley-campaigner/ Politics has always been deeply personal for Sandra Webster. A single mother-of-three who cares for two autistic sons, one with chronic renal failure and another with cerebral palsy, she cut her teeth in the long-running community-led campaign to save the children’s ward at the Royal Alexandria Hospital in Paisley. Just before the campaign started in […] ]]> 17850 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/02/09/scotland-2042/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scotland-2042 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:19:43 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2022/02/09/scotland-2042/ Last year we published 1979 – a Counterfactual History in which we imagined a past where Geoff Shaw became First Minister, Ivor Cutler the first Makar, St Columba was the new Patron Saint and Jimmy Reid and Margo Macdonald were appointed co-chairs of the new industrial and trade union unit. Now you’re being asked to […] ]]> 17158 https://ayewecan.com/2021/10/14/scottish-independence-union-in-trouble/ https://ayewecan.com/2021/10/14/scottish-independence-union-in-trouble/#respond Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:52:14 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/?p=16666 https://ayewecan.com/2021/10/14/scottish-independence-union-in-trouble/feed/ 0 16666 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/09/30/oh-what-a-circus-uk-labour-conference-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oh-what-a-circus-uk-labour-conference-2021 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:56:13 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2021/09/30/oh-what-a-circus-uk-labour-conference-2021/ One thing you can guarantee about a Labour conference is that there will be disagreements, fall-outs, battles and behind-the-scenes plotting to undermine others. This year was no different but Keir Starmer got his plotting and undermining in early. In the days running up to conference he announced that he would be asking the NEC to […] ]]> 16615 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/09/11/janey-godley-is-not-the-victim-in-this-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=janey-godley-is-not-the-victim-in-this-story Sat, 11 Sep 2021 16:59:45 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2021/09/11/janey-godley-is-not-the-victim-in-this-story/ When a series of racist, ableist and homophobic tweets, messages and comments by comedian Janey Godley came to light this week it surprised a lot of people. She had been riding the limelight in recent years and had become a regular in everything from National Theatre Scotland productions to pubic information films. It’s hard to […] ]]> 16548 https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/09/17/believe-in-scotland-kickstarts-new-indyref2-campaign/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=believe-in-scotland-kickstarts-new-indyref2-campaign Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:20:00 +0000 https://ayewecan.com/2021/09/17/believe-in-scotland-kickstarts-new-indyref2-campaign/ Believe in Scotland is this weekend kickstarting the grass roots campaign for Scottish independence, leading up to indyref2 with a national Day of Action for independence tomorrow (Saturday, September 18). The day will see a huge range of events held by 110 Yes groups all over the country to signal the start of the organisation’s […] ]]> 16576