Neil Mackay
@neilmackay.bsky.social
Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social Made in Ireland, found in Scotland MDANT🎖️ AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
Sneak peek inside Conservative Central Office during crisis meeting over Joshua Bonehill-Paine scandal
The older I get, the soppier I get. This is lovely
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12h agoA sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post
Just got my latest DNA update. I don’t think I could be more Celtic if my ma was Boudicca and my da was Fionn mac Cumhaill
✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
The front page of the Daily Telegraph, standing up for the real victims in modern Britain.
"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." - Frank #Zappa
An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.
This appears to be a scam event being circulated directly to Yes pages by 'anonscot'. Yes groups around Scotland have been checking with other Yes bodies and no-one yet has ascertained who is behind this. We won't share the link but here is a screenshot. Tagging @scotnational.bsky.social
Too few are taking the issue of the rise of the far-right in Scotland and Ireland seriously. Good to see more writers subjecting this to the scrutiny it demands
The Irish Voice@theirishvoice.bsky.social · last wk.In our comment section this month, Stephen Colbert delves deeper into the rise of the far-right in both Ireland and Scotland @neilmackay.bsky.social
The rise of the middle-aged extremist: why GenX has become the radicalised generation I talk to Dr Sara Wilford, one of the few experts in extremism among 45 to 65 year olds, to find out why so many older people are increasingly embracing the far-right My long read in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Rise of middle-aged extremists: How Gen X became the radicalised generation
Dr Sara Wilford is one of the few academics in the world studying the phenomenon of people in midlife increasingly embracing far-right ideology. She…
heraldscotland.com
A brilliant article. We really are behaving like narcissistic addicts, pouring rage into everything but not demanding why we're not doing the one thing necessary.
Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social · 2w agoIt astonished me this week that when my column was published on this very issue, there were people actually claiming that ‘wildfires aren’t real’. So we’ve now reached the stage of wildfire denial. We live in a time of wilful and deadly delusion
Mr Mackay upsets all the right people again... 👍
Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social · 2w agoThe rise of the middle-aged extremist: why GenX has become the radicalised generation I talk to Dr Sara Wilford, one of the few experts in extremism among 45 to 65 year olds, to find out why so many older people are increasingly embracing the far-right My long read in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The rise of the middle-aged extremist: why GenX has become the radicalised generation I talk to Dr Sara Wilford, one of the few experts in extremism among 45 to 65 year olds, to find out why so many older people are increasingly embracing the far-right My long read in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Rise of middle-aged extremists: How Gen X became the radicalised generation
Dr Sara Wilford is one of the few academics in the world studying the phenomenon of people in midlife increasingly embracing far-right ideology. She…
heraldscotland.com
love that they’re going ‘we must be more like Zohran! how does he do it?!’ and they‘ve focused on his comms strategy but missed the part where you have actual socialist policies to underpin it
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoThe UK’s first TikTok PM? Andy Burnham channels Zohran Mamdani as he hits social media
It’s just struck me that we’re living in a hyper-futuristic version of the medieval era where the courts of European kings and queens were full of astrologers and necromancers promising to turn lead into gold or find the elixir of life. We’re experiencing a collision of science and magical thinking
Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs
‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur
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I was writing about this last week
'From licence fee to subscriptions: what Sky’s £1.6bn ITV deal means for British TV'
TV was once effectively free in this country, but suckers that we are Brits are now paying America for the privilege of watching telly. Neil Mackay…
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The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · 2w agoYou know what really bugs me? We cant own anything. Everything is a subscription....like literally everything. You cant buy Microsoft Office. You have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER Isn't anyone else bothered by this...
It astonished me this week that when my column was published on this very issue, there were people actually claiming that ‘wildfires aren’t real’. So we’ve now reached the stage of wildfire denial. We live in a time of wilful and deadly delusion
Drill, baby, drill: We’re like Nero fiddling while Arthur’s Seat burns
Wildfires sweep Scotland yet the political debate is all about extracting more oil and gas. It’s a total delusion, and believing it is an act of…
heraldscotland.com
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w agoTerrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?
Do Scots have Middle Eastern migrant roots in the ancient past? The Odyssey myths suggest we do In his new film Christopher Nolan hints at ancient myths which when investigated point to legendary claims that Scots originated in lands far to the east My culture column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The Scottish legends at the heart of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
In his new film, Christopher Nolan hints at ancient myths which when investigated point to legendary claims that Scots originated in lands far to…
heraldscotland.com
Because it's a day ending in Y, The (Dire) Times has an exclusive chat with Maya Firestarter of "human rights charity" (I know, stop laughing) Sex Matters claiming Amnesty was always evil or whatever.
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
History will not be kind to Bari Weiss apple.news/AQ3YDsi-KT9u...
Fired ‘60 Minutes’ journalist says she was pressured to report on events that ‘never happened’ — MS NOW
Cecilia Vega said CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pressured her to include “misinformation” and “political bias” in several news segments.
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