A decade ago the Scottish government launched the Fair Work Convention. It promised to make Scotland a āworld-leaderā. Our Writer at Large uncovers how that turned to dust www.heraldscotland.com/news... @neilmackay.bsky.social
Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social Made in Ireland, found in Scotland MDANTšļø AKA āthe kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist whoās made for Blueskyā
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A decade ago the Scottish government launched the Fair Work Convention. It promised to make Scotland a āworld-leaderā. Our Writer at Large uncovers how that turned to dust www.heraldscotland.com/news... @neilmackay.bsky.social
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Sturgeon on Rowling
sort out its comms?! FFS ... don't they see the party - with a capital P - is over?
that's it, aye
Me, getting ready to bring up Starmer shagging the St George's Cross next time some British unionist calls me a flag-waving nationalist
Cool, now do the same to the union
is threads some sort of Labour redoubt then? I wouldn't go near something owned by that Zuckerberg fucker - or Fuckerberg or whatever he's called
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Bluesky has 36.8 million users and engagement and participation levels are superior to those on X. observer.com/2025/08/blue...
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
I go for Ambrose Bierce's definition in The Devil's Dictionary
Next up: the Prime Minister fellates the English Defence League www.thenational.scot/news/2543204...
to A Clockwork Orange ... this bit
It's 2025... anything is possible
Maybe the new Ludovico technique
This is just tremendous, why have I never seen it before...
If that cunt gets a Nobel Peace Prize, Norway should be put under the same international sanctions as North Korea
Genuine quote here from the British Prime Minister: "I always sit in front of the Union Jack. Iāve been doing it for years.ā Does he mean when he's watching Eastenders, or having his tea? What kind of flag-shagging bollocks is this? Message to the outside world: Britain has lost its fucking mind
Pure fascism
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me ā such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
What a choiceā¦
Maybe you need more insane rightwing snowflakes in your life
Didnāt you call them chavs and yobs for 20 years until you realised you could ventriloquise your posh-boy racism through them?
If itās American fascism, we already guessed, fucko
Klaxon! Bread is now woke!
I see the new American aesthetic is a fine blend of Nazi-Soviet totalitarian realism meets Norman Rockwell
SIGNS OF FASCISM šŖ§
An addition: buy a Bible, read the Jesus bits and youāll be a woke socialist
Just soā¦
The Clarkson connection stress tested my love but it survived
I have that. Been a big fan since I was a child and read the books to my own children. That image doesnāt appear in my copy.
āPeople have been f**ked by the systemā The Scottish govt pledged that by 2025 this country would be a workers paradise. Well, itās 2025 and that pledge has turned to dust I investigate the reality of workers lives and the sham thatās the āfair workā policy www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542875...
Take it back then
This is what communities are about. It isn't knuckle dragging morons disrespecting the flag to spread hate, it is people like Crystal Clean Windows. We saw it after the riots last year. The far right are not representative of local communities. H/t to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for the original post.
This shit has been going on since the 70s. Itās a symbol of English nationalism
Fucking gross
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says āCan I help you find something?ā āIām looking for the obituaries.ā āThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.ā āNot the one Iām looking for.ā
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Paddington is an immigrant you despicable bastards. Stop hijacking a beloved childrenās character who represents kindness and empathy for your rotten racist propaganda
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Itās all getting quite fascisty now isnāt it
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I still canāt believe I just had one of the best holidays of my life on the Isle of Arran, just 50 miles from my home in Glasgow How strange it is that we so often forget the beauty thatās on our own doorstep In @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
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Poison
Already dawn in fascist Russia, Ukrainian drone attack on Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara continuing, another direct hit on the burning facility.
This is real
Interesting stuff, cheers
They need to go full tonto
The SNP needs to tool up for a dirty fight to the death with the far-right The Scottish government should lead the battle against extremism ā¦ because the Tories and Labour certainly aināt gonna do it My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Greens better get into gear thenā¦
Iāve trod that ground before, so this is a different take. Be interesting to hear your thoughts
The SNP needs to tool up for a dirty fight to the death with the far-right The Scottish government should lead the battle against extremism ā¦ because the Tories and Labour certainly aināt gonna do it My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Fuck off, you intolerable cunts
May I suggest a solution...?
Or jobs that pay well, action on climate disaster, an end to bloody wars, political stability and a focus on the lives and wellbeing of ordinary people Of course, you could also just have a giant idiotic space wank
Hardly saw any
All in the piece mate
Tonnes in the piece
I spent a week there and could have done with two more days as there was so much to see and do
In the piece I write about a cracking distillery I visited
I still canāt believe I just had one of the best holidays of my life on the Isle of Arran, just 50 miles from my home in Glasgow How strange it is that we so often forget the beauty thatās on our own doorstep In @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
The Scottish Government should lead by example and remove all state social media accounts from Muskās platform www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542420...
'What makes Arran such a treat is itās so unspoilt. The west coast, in particular, is gorgeous and all but untouched. 'How strange it is that we so often forget the beauty thatās on our own doorstep' š
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'The demons in human form who play music from their phones on public transport need strung up by the indescribables' || @neilmackay.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
Why I can no longer work with Reuters After eight years as a stringer, Valerie Zink says she can no longer work with the agency, citing its role in enabling attacks on journalists in Gaza. Read the full statement here: nbmediacoop.org/2025/08/26/w...
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
Division is everywhere but we can all unite around one belief: the people who play music on public transport without their headphones in are monsters and their antics should be banned My column on the scourge of blasterbaters in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Iām increasingly meeting people on mountains who think itās necessary to disturb the tranquility with their crappy music
Matched only by those who wear rucksacks in confined spaces.
I yearn for the good old days when all we had to complain about was a barely audible "tst..tiss...tst..." In the quiet carriage. š¤£
i'm all for prison abolition except for this and people who don't return their shopping carts
Evil!
What?!
Oh I hate that too
Division is everywhere but we can all unite around one belief: the people who play music on public transport without their headphones in are monsters and their antics should be banned My column on the scourge of blasterbaters in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Credit to you
Thick as mince
'In a sane, normal country, Lucy Connolly would be treated as a contemptible extremist. Not in Britain. 'She will likely make a cosy living out of phoney martyrdom' www.heraldscotland.com/poli... @neilmackay.bsky.social
In a sane, normal country, Lucy Connolly would be treated as a contemptible extremist. Not in Britain. But then this is no longer a sane, normal country. Britain has lost its moral bearings My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Lucy Connolly is held up as a martyr by swathes of the British press and leading politicians. To offer any succour to someone like Connolly is to revile decency, humanity and respect for the law. We are a nation unhinged. Britain has lost its moral bearings www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
A nation which makes a martyr out of Lucy Connolly has lost its moral bearings My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Unfortunately, it was inevitable that this is where the U.K. would end up. There is no such thing as āacceptableā levels of hate; allowing people to speak those āquiet words out loudā simply allows that hate to take root. And once it does, it will consume everything.
Whereas in reality she is evil.
Lucy Connolly....cut-price Horst Wessel de nos jours. We must always remember that Nazis thrive on martydom and drunken, crocodile tears of self-pity.
First class reading and a warning that Scotland (Particularly our politicians) should firmly stand back from this rot and stand for something much better.
Always feel a bit sad Scotland didnāt get out when it could have
Absolutely spot on! šÆ She pleaded guilty. Mobs tried to burn people alive in hotels. The justice system was right to make an example of her. Racists are more emboldened than Iāve seen in my life time and this abhorrent woman has shown no remorse.
This. Every word.
Lucy Connolly is held up as a martyr by swathes of the British press and leading politicians. To offer any succour to someone like Connolly is to revile decency, humanity and respect for the law. We are a nation unhinged. Britain has lost its moral bearings www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
In a sane, normal country, Lucy Connolly would be treated as a contemptible extremist. Not in Britain. But then this is no longer a sane, normal country. Britain has lost its moral bearings My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
A nation which makes a martyr out of Lucy Connolly has lost its moral bearings My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
This needed saying and it needs to be repeated every day. @rebeccadonkennedy.bsky.social talking to @neilmackay.bsky.social is an exceptional read.