Neil Mackay
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The BBC is an active foot soldier for the Tory culture war
THERE’S a rather tired metaphor that’s done the rounds for years about the destructive powers of the Tory Party. The cliché that’s reached… → Read More
How the small town of Erskine became a flashpoint for racial hate
The far right is targeting asylum seekers housed at an Erskine hotel. Trade unions are fighting back. Writer at Large Neil Mackay investigates a new… → Read More
Neil Mackay: SNP needs a spell in opposition to rediscover its soul
Friday's Unspun newsletter. → Read More
How 14 days of murder changed my life forever
THE month of March always makes me think of murder. When spring arrives, memory sends me tumbling back through the decades to when I’d just turned… → Read More
Faith and politics: What is the role of religion in modern Scotland?
RELIGION is dominating much of Scottish public life today. The furore around Kate Forbes and her biblical opposition to gay marriage has captured… → Read More
Unspun: Rage at Hancock shows what SNP will face at Covid inquiry
THE ghost of the pandemic has returned to even some scores both at home and abroad. → Read More
SNP is pushing progressive voters into the arms of Labour
THE SNP is unravelling, and with it any notion that the party is a truly progressive force in Scottish politics. A curtain has been pulled back, a… → Read More
Neil Mackay: As the SNP implodes, what does the party stand for?
IF you’ve ever dared venture unwisely into the deepest weeds of Scottish nationalism, you’ll find a fringe conspiracy being worked over for the… → Read More
Putin’s useful Scottish idiots fail to grasp reality of Russia’s war
IT’S a good time to reflect on Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots in Scotland. Since Russia launched its monstrous war a year ago, they’ve been… → Read More
From Kyiv to Glasgow: A story of hope and humanity amid a horrific war
Last year, we told how the Abramov family fled Ukraine as Russia invaded. They were aided by Scottish refugee workers who found a Glasgow family to… → Read More
It's time for the Yes movement to break with the SNP
THE Yes movement is undoubtedly bigger than any one person. But is the Yes movement bigger than the SNP? That’s the question that now needs… → Read More
The Tories have wilfully fanned the flames of extremism
WHEN I was a little boy way back in the 1970s, I’d love to sit and listen to my grandmother’s tales of the Second World War. She was an… → Read More
Unspun: The SNP and Tories share one common failure
There's an absurdity afoot when it comes to weighing the current dysfunctions and woes of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP. → Read More
Director Mark Cousins on cinema, sex and the sins of Alfred Hitchcock
Mark Cousins turned millions onto the world’s greatest cinema. As his latest movies premier in Glasgow, he speaks to Neil Mackay about Hollywood… → Read More
Neil Mackay: Ready for the next disastrous Scottish Government policy?
IT’S almost a year since I conducted a lengthy interview with Lorna Slater, the Green Scottish government minister. → Read More
Nicola Sturgeon is not Satan
Neil Mackay looks at the 'demented' abuse directed at Nicola Sturgeon in the latest edition of our Unspun newsletter → Read More
Fatal attraction ... or how the haggis taught me to love
I'm meeting my secret Scottish lover again tonight. We meet about once a month, but our January hook-up is the big one. → Read More
Why Yes voters are more patriotic to Britain than the Tories
WHAT’S left? What have the Tories not destroyed? We’re now in the 13th year of Tory rule and hardly anything remains standing. The pillars of… → Read More
Sex, racism, sectarianism and independence – the truth about Burns
It’s Burns Night soon, but should we celebrate it? Our National Poet is accused of everything from sympathy with slavery to sex crimes. Is it… → Read More
Brutal school assault symbolises SNP's failure over education
THE violence is appalling to watch. One girl unleashes a fusillade of punches and kicks to the head of another girl in a classroom at Anstruther’s… → Read More