Neil Mackay

Pointing and laughing has power

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

So concerned about ‘protecting women’ they intimidate women they disagree with. Bastards

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Twat

I gave Glasgow’s Old Firm a bit of a roasting about 40 mins into the Drivetime show

Cheers fella

I know we’re heading to WWIII but for a confusing moment I thought I was reading news from Sarajevo in June 1914

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Shocking scenes as Rangers vs Celtic ends in pitch invasion chaos as supporters clash Shocking scenes as Rangers vs Celtic ends in pitch invasion chaos as supporters clash

An absolute stain on my home city

Julian Barnes isn’t a writer who often moves me deeply. I enjoyed his books intellectually over the years but he’s never hit me with the emotional wallop I often seek in novels. His farewell novel, Departure (S), just knocked me for six though on the final page

Niagara Falls has appeared on my face

@neilmackay.bsky.social did a good article on BBC reporting bias earlier in the week and here is another example showing more evidence that the BBC right-swing has deprived of us the type of journalism and programming the license fee is meant to fund.

Anyone else get the sickening feeling that Trump is just itching to use nuclear weapons against Iran?

A fair point

Can we fast forward to the bit where we hang all the war criminals and fascists and then have serious people at the helm of an 80 year period of reconstruction and improving living standards … before going to shit and doing it all over again at some point around 2120?

Boycott OpenAI

Inside the Home Office: 'Hostile culture and Kafkaesque chaos' Immigration is the most divisive issue in British politics. Our Writer at Large talks to the Home Office insider blowing the whistle on government…

‘They hire McDonalds staff to decide deportation cases’

I talk to Home Office insider turned whistleblower Nicola Kelly. She tells me how politicians deliberately broke the UK asylum system & why small boat arrivals are a reckoning with Britain for its colonial past

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Inside the Home Office: 'Hostile culture and Kafkaesque chaos' Immigration is the most divisive issue in British politics. Our Writer at Large talks to the Home Office insider blowing the whistle on government…

The Home Office is hiring staff from McDonalds and supermarkets to decide on refugee deportation cases. Staff know so little that some consult Lonely Planet guides to decide if a country is safe. Some can’t even find countries they’re returning people to on the map

Inside the UK’s asylum system

Inside the Home Office: 'Hostile culture and Kafkaesque chaos' Immigration is the most divisive issue in British politics. Our Writer at Large talks to the Home Office insider blowing the whistle on government…

‘The UK asylum system, as observed by the Home Office insider Nicola Kelly, appears co-designed by Franz Kafka and the Marquis de Sade. Kelly paints a portrait of blind bureaucracy built on nightmarish illogicality and complexity, coupled with wilful cruelty which cares nothing for human suffering.’

Can we arrest Blair and every one of the henchmen who served him for what they did in Iraq, please?

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 https://theonion.com/egg-companies-assure-customers-dozen-has-always-meant-9/

The president of Israel says that Iran does not adhere to any rule of international law.

A UN independent commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza & the Israeli president incited the commission of genocide.

Fuck Tony Blair

Really looking forward to the Nuremberg trials

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I saw the preview of The Trials @trontheatre.bsky.social last night. It’s superb. In the near future, child survivors of climate collapse are judging which adults complicit in the disaster should be executed. I shivered at the writer’s fate. It’s like watching our entire generation on trial. See it.

What a squalid little barbarian Chalamet turned out to be

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

The search for me in Clacton enters its 87th week.