Mike Small

Mike Small    ( writer,  journalist,  author,  publisher)
Alma mater	•  Goddard College •  Birkbeck University of London
Founder of	Bella Caledonia

Mike Small is a freelance writer, journalist, author and publisher who has written for The Guardian, Sunday Herald, Sunday National, Open Democracy, Variant, Lobster and Z Magazine. In 2021, he is working on a biography of Patrick Geddes and a history of Scotland 1950-2020.

Mike Small has edited the online magazine Bella Caledonia since 2007.

 

Documents by Mike Small

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:A Devastating Indictment of Israel’s War on Gaza	Article	11 January 2024	Israel Israeli–Palestinian conflict South Africa International Court of Justice Occupied Palestinian Territory 2023-2025 Israel-Hamas War
Document:Glastonbury is not the story here. Genocide is the story	Article	1 July 2025	BBC War crime Genocide Alan Rusbridger Israel/Defense Forces Bob Dylan Glastonbury Festival Robbie Gibb	“The British Establishment is having a nervous breakdown—banning Palestine Action for red paint and histrionics over Glastonbury and Kneecap. This is a pathological reaction: guilt, fear, and dread that they’ll never escape their complicity in over 20,000 dead children. When we look back and ask how this happened, we will remember their role in excusing, deflecting, and denying siege famine, the destruction of hospitals, and the targeting of aid workers and journalists.”
Document:How to Keep Going During the Next Energy Crisis	Article	25 September 2021	Margaret Thatcher Privatisation Chris Edwards Richard Seymour	The social chaos unwinding on your forecourts and timelines is the long-term consequence of decades of privatisation, core industries run for profiteering with no thinking about the socio-ecological consequence. As people face mass fuel poverty, the dark irony is that all of these “British” institutions were sold off by the Tories, now desperate to defend the very concept of Britishness they’ve sold.
Document:Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and Britain	Article	6 October 2025	Israel/Defense Forces Palantir Technologies "Digital identity" Dehumanisation Louis Mosley	Palantir Technologies – the surveillance company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel – has secured at least 24 contracts across key UK public institutions, and is now working with both the Israeli and the British military.
Document:Parody Britain and the Death of the Fourth Estate	Article	9 December 2021	Michael Gove Boris Johnson Fourth Estate Dominic Cummings Rishi Sunak Carrie Symonds Allegra Stratton Munira Mirza Lee Cain	This is a ruling elite, a governing class that comes from the same strata, shares the same education and is literally inter-married. In this context the idea that such a media can hold the powerful to account is of course laughable. The British media is incestuous and dysfunctional.
Document:Police Violence	Article	1 October 2021	Cressida Dick UK/Home Office/Investigatory Powers Tribunal Sarah Everard Spycops scandal Wayne Couzens Kate Wilson Mark Kennedy Scotland/Police	The radical overhaul of how we view policing and law and order shouldn’t be contained within the prism of the appalling problem of male violence – but seen in the context of state violence, the repression of dissent and the growth of the surveillance state.
Document:Returning the Sausages	Article	24 September 2024	Israeli–Palestinian conflict Genocide Labour Party International Court of Justice Apartheid Keir Starmer UN/General Assembly Two-state solution	"Keir Starmer’s speech to conference was one of the most stage-managed and vapid addresses I’ve ever seen. It’s not enough to have hollowed out his party, the idea of being a protestor – or having values – or even using accurate language to describe the horrors going on in Gaza must be banned and mocked."
Document:Rosebank: Omnicide for the People	Article	28 September 2023	"Climate change" Fossil fuel Equinor Rosebank oil field Omnicide Ithaca Energy	Rosebank is the next step in the grotesque experience we are all living through: omnicide.
Document:The Death of Trump	Article	7 September 2025	The Pentagon Jeffrey Epstein Donald Trump	“Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been — arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”
Document:Under the Statue of Gandhi	Article	6 July 2025	Terrorism Act 2000 Yvette Cooper Palestine Action	Aged 83, the Reverend Sue Parfitt from Bristol was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
New Climate Reality, New Media	Article	10 August 2021	Propaganda "Climate change" "Disinformation" IPCC Stanley Johnson Extinction Rebellion COP26	Call out the worst of columnists and publications spouting writing that is clearly against the common good and against humanity’s future. A weekly prize for the worst culprits. Naming and shaming disinformation and sponsored propaganda.

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