Kevin McKenna
Writer and Columnist at Freelance
Writer and Columnist at The National (Scotland)
Writer and Columnist at The Herald (Scotland)
Journalist, Glaswegian, Celtic man … He/Tim
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna
Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will appear at the book festival (Image: PA) I feel the organisers of this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival have been unfairly maligned for seeking to bring kindness into the cruel and brutal world of literature and publishing. They’ve chosen ‘Repair’ as the core theme and hope to “explore the many things around us which feel broken, and how we might seek to fix them …” Huzzah and not before time, I say.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna
Last Wednesday, just across the river from the Balloch House inn, two pleasure cruisers were setting off to tour Loch Lomond. Just behind them, at a respectful distance, a sleek James Bond speedboat murmured under its breath as it waited for the narrow channel to clear. In the little patch of grass and woodland on the opposite bank, families had gathered, unsure when the sun would next visit this place.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna
Gibson's Engineering Ltd managing director Fraser Gibson, Dougie Gibson (executive operations director) and David Moulsdale, non-executive chairman (Image: Colin Mearns) Across Europe, old cathedrals adorned by the masters of Renaissance art still mesmerise the senses. In Glasgow meanwhile, we were building temples of heavy industry sanctified not by oils and plinths but by toil and sweat. While Florence and Barcelona and Cologne moved imaginations, Glasgow gave them transport.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna
Pro-Palestine protesters spill in Glasgow's Central Station (Image: free) If Anas Sarwar and John Swinney had accompanied me on my travels around Scotland’s central belt last week they might have gained some insight into why their parties are threatened by Reform UK. This was a week when we learned that the First Minister has overseen the covert construction of a spin machine costing £1.7m a year.
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heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna
Odhran Gallagher Student Journalist of the Year in The Herald Student Journalism Awards (Image: Mark F Gibson) We who are of a silvern vintage in this old print trade recall with fondness the newspaper turf wars that raged in Glasgow throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This was at a time when the Express and Record fought daily with each other to defend readerships numbering several hundreds of thousands.
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A newspaper circulation battle is raging for the hearts and minds of Glasgow University students. It's rooted in some old themes: freedom of expression, censorship and holding power to account: my feature in @heraldscotland https://t.co/p6zWnXVRv8
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RT @_katherinemckay: I am available over the summer for any freelance projects in journalism. I specialise in short-form news reporting, bu…
