Neil Mackay

Shield of the Americas? WTF

They are psychopath toddlers cosplaying as adults

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

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Bye

A crucial part of right-wing psychology is not just the need to be heard - but for people to be forced to listen to you. That’s what they mean by free speech. It isn’t the speech they care about, it’s that everyone must be forced to endure their views.

"Content which appears Scottish is often simply dressed in a kilt. The BBC itself was prompted to a run a piece headed ‘Why do so few Scottish-based people work on The Traitors?’."

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That’s quite the definition of ‘imminent’

Boycott OpenAI

It’s some mega DARVO shit for sure

This is a superb and psychologically incisive piece. I wish I’d written it myself. The overlap between the new right and fascisms of old when it comes to deeply disturbing obsessions about sex and violence is plain to anyone with eyes to see and a mind that thinks. Read it

I love her short stories. Just finished rereading some a few weeks ago. What a writer she was

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Thank you, James

I subscribe to the Herald, in no small part, for Neil’s writing.

I would encourage anyone who enjoys an unashamedly honest perspective to do the same.

Exactly

Clearly I’m not referring to people with dyslexia

Right! They don’t even know what a friggen book is?

'It's couthy, it's cringey, embarrassing and twee: that's Bonnie Scotland on the BBC'

I look at the failure of BBC Scotland in my Counter Culture column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Here's a link www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2590...

And here's a taster

With thanks to all the folk who spoke to me for this piece

'It’s couthy, it’s cringey, embarrassing and twee: that’s Bonnie Scotland on the BBC' Whilst the BBC across Britain has serious problems, the broadcaster nationally has at least some elegance and intelligence. BBC Scotland is like the…

One former BBC producer told me: “It’s really sad what has happened to BBC Scotland.” They called the BBC a tragi-comedy “but not a very entertaining one, least of all for the audience”.

I look at the catastrophe that is BBC Scotland in my Counter Culture column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'It’s couthy, it’s cringey, embarrassing and twee: that’s Bonnie Scotland on the BBC' Whilst the BBC across Britain has serious problems, the broadcaster nationally has at least some elegance and intelligence. BBC Scotland is like the…

BBC Scotland is done no favours when pro-union journalists say ‘the quiet bit out loud’. When the Murdoch-owned Times runs pieces headlined ‘BBC bias against independence was essential’, you can hardly blame Yes voters for thinking the dice are loaded.

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social culture column

'It’s couthy, it’s cringey, embarrassing and twee: that’s Bonnie Scotland on the BBC' Whilst the BBC across Britain has serious problems, the broadcaster nationally has at least some elegance and intelligence. BBC Scotland is like the…

Whilst the BBC across Britain has serious problems, the broadcaster nationally has at least some elegance and intelligence. BBC Scotland is like the bumpkin neighbour, often merely embarrassing

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2590...

'It’s couthy, it’s cringey, embarrassing and twee: that’s Bonnie Scotland on the BBC' Whilst the BBC across Britain has serious problems, the broadcaster nationally has at least some elegance and intelligence. BBC Scotland is like the…

'It's couthy, it's cringey, embarrassing and twee: that's how Bonnie Scotland is presented on the BBC'

I look at how the BBC in Scotland has failed, failed and failed again

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Counter Culture column

Alan Carr’s castle buy in the Borders is a Gilded Age tale for a broken Scotland Alan Carr has paid £3.5million for a baronial pile in the borders. Neil Mackay says it smacks of the Gilded Age when the rich played and the poor…

‘Super-rich vapid idiots have somehow become the pinnacle of modern culture. When I hear those two Satanic words ‘influencer’ and ‘celebrity’ I picture a fresh turd in the gutter sprinkled with glitter.’

My column on how Alan Carr simply had to own a Scottish castle

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Alan Carr’s castle buy in the Borders is a Gilded Age tale for a broken Scotland Alan Carr has paid £3.5million for a baronial pile in the borders. Neil Mackay says it smacks of the Gilded Age when the rich played and the poor…

‘Some men have a midlife crisis and buy a Lamborghini, I wanted my own castle’

Am I the only one who finds the comedian Alan Carr spending £3.25m on a his own Scottish castle distasteful? It’s another tale of the Gilded Age rich in an era of stark poverty

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Alan Carr’s castle buy in the Borders is a Gilded Age tale for a broken Scotland Alan Carr has paid £3.5million for a baronial pile in the borders. Neil Mackay says it smacks of the Gilded Age when the rich played and the poor…

A tale of Gilded Age greed in an era of grinding poverty

My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social on Alan Carr and his Scottish castle

Idiot nation

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Amen 🙏

"The BBC is in the same place as Britain’s two main political parties: trapped in the 20th century. Labour and the Tories are dying because they haven’t learned how to navigate this new era."

Thanks Neil, BBC Scotland is a disgrace.