Neil Mackay
@neilmackay.bsky.social
Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
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AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
Pinned
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The Sorrow and the Pity
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
I hate how I feel towards my children’s generation
Each generation always had it better than the one before - until now. With the world in turmoil, our Writer at Large says it is agonising to see…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Sorrow and the Pity
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
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Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA
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If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
This is how it started under Putin in Russia
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
This is how it started under Putin in Russia
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“Perhaps the explanation for the state of the world lies in that monstrous inhumanity. If we‘re incapable of protecting our own children’s future, then what are we? Maybe we deserve this decay?” This.
The Sorrow and the Pity
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
I hate how I feel towards my children’s generation
Each generation always had it better than the one before - until now. With the world in turmoil, our Writer at Large says it is agonising to see…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
“Perhaps the explanation for the state of the world lies in that monstrous inhumanity. If we‘re incapable of protecting our own children’s future, then what are we? Maybe we deserve this decay?” This.
The Sorrow and the Pity
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
I hate how I feel towards my children’s generation
Each generation always had it better than the one before - until now. With the world in turmoil, our Writer at Large says it is agonising to see…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Sorrow and the Pity
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
It is agonising to consider the future we have created for our own children. Each generation always had it better than the last. But that’s no longer true for the young today
We need to ask ourselves ’what have we done?’
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
Musk is now peddling paedophilia
Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror
Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror
UK watchdog in ‘urgent contact’ with Musk’s X over AI-generated sexualized images of children
Ofcom looking into whether platform may be in breach of the Online Safety Act over its AI chatbot Grok.
www.politico.eu
January 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Musk is now peddling paedophilia
Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror
Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror
So is America both bombing Venezuela and deporting people back to Venezuela at the same time now? Like a refugee carousel
January 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM
So is America both bombing Venezuela and deporting people back to Venezuela at the same time now? Like a refugee carousel
Great to see all of Britain’s coked up football hooligans celebrating the kidnapping of someone accused of cocaine smuggling…
a man with a beard wearing a blue vest and black shirt
ALT: a man with a beard wearing a blue vest and black shirt
media.tenor.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Great to see all of Britain’s coked up football hooligans celebrating the kidnapping of someone accused of cocaine smuggling…
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Welcome to the Age of Enshittification where culture has been destroyed by the tech oligarchs
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
I was enshittified – the digital rot eating our books, music and films
Digital firms have taken art and entertainment, bought it up, repackaged it and sold it back to us as substandard crap. Neil Mackay is mad as hell…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Welcome to the Age of Enshittification where culture has been destroyed by the tech oligarchs
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
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It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S
Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation
Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Keir Starmer is a stooge for American fascism
January 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Keir Starmer is a stooge for American fascism
Welcome to the Age of Enshittification where culture has been destroyed by the tech oligarchs
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
I was enshittified – the digital rot eating our books, music and films
Digital firms have taken art and entertainment, bought it up, repackaged it and sold it back to us as substandard crap. Neil Mackay is mad as hell…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Welcome to the Age of Enshittification where culture has been destroyed by the tech oligarchs
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
Like totalitarian dictators, Silicon Valley billionaires control the means of production, distribution and exchange when it comes to modern culture
Their vampire thirst for money has turned it all to shit
Which kinda proves your supporters are Nazis
'Claims I made pro-Hitler comments are solidifying Reform's vote', Nigel Farage says
NIGEL Farage has said that dozens of former schoolmates and teachers accusing him of racist and antisemitic remarks – including that “Hitler was…
www.thenational.scot
January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Which kinda proves your supporters are Nazis
File under ‘death of journalism’ for future historians
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
File under ‘death of journalism’ for future historians
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'Even among the radical and liberal, egalitarianism and sexual equality only run so far. The most high-minded of men, who claim they long to smash society’s strictures, will still, assume the power of a patriarch.' Review by @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Mary Shelley’s long-forgotten trips to Scotland shaped masterpiece Frankenstein
Strip out the echoes of Frankenstein, and Mairi Kidd’s novel Poor Creatures is closest in spirit to a very bold, adult version of Little Women.…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
'Even among the radical and liberal, egalitarianism and sexual equality only run so far. The most high-minded of men, who claim they long to smash society’s strictures, will still, assume the power of a patriarch.' Review by @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
How Mary Shelley’s long-forgotten visits to Scotland as a teenager shaped her gothic masterpiece Frankenstein
My review of Mairi Kidd’s new novel Poor Creatures. In spirit, it’s a very bold, adult version of Little Women, exploring the joys and agonies of girlhood
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My review of Mairi Kidd’s new novel Poor Creatures. In spirit, it’s a very bold, adult version of Little Women, exploring the joys and agonies of girlhood
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Mary Shelley’s long-forgotten trips to Scotland shaped masterpiece Frankenstein
Strip out the echoes of Frankenstein, and Mairi Kidd’s novel Poor Creatures is closest in spirit to a very bold, adult version of Little Women.…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
How Mary Shelley’s long-forgotten visits to Scotland as a teenager shaped her gothic masterpiece Frankenstein
My review of Mairi Kidd’s new novel Poor Creatures. In spirit, it’s a very bold, adult version of Little Women, exploring the joys and agonies of girlhood
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My review of Mairi Kidd’s new novel Poor Creatures. In spirit, it’s a very bold, adult version of Little Women, exploring the joys and agonies of girlhood
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism.
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism.
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
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I would bet everything I own that women are safer living next to 300 migrant men than they are living next to 300 British male soldiers
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I would bet everything I own that women are safer living next to 300 migrant men than they are living next to 300 British male soldiers
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It's not sex offenders who upset Nigel Farage, it's brown people.
December 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's not sex offenders who upset Nigel Farage, it's brown people.
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This is disgraceful! Which idiot encouraged people to vote for the Brexit that made this inevitable?
December 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is disgraceful! Which idiot encouraged people to vote for the Brexit that made this inevitable?
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.
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Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.