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Kevin McKenna

Glasgow

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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  • MI5 plants in the SNP? No, they destroyed indy hopes all by themselves

    4 days ago | heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna

    "I’m just not buying the spy theory" (Image: Agency) ONE of the more fanciful theories that emerged in the years following the 2014 referendum on independence was that assorted SNP players were in fact agents of the British state. To this day, some very intelligent and well-informed former SNP figures remain convinced that certain individuals at the heart of the party were planted by MI5.

  • How new Pope and Catholic Church have mesmerised our Godless societies

    4 days ago | heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna

    Newly elected Pope Leo XIV concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican the day after his election as 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church (Image: Getty) A curious paradox has emerged since the death of Pope Francis two weeks ago. At a moment in time when sophisticated Western Europe has never seemed more Godless and wedded to excess, the ancient rituals of the Catholic Church have somehow increased their powers to mesmerise.

  • Kevin McKenna: Pope Leo is the first American pontiff, but Trump should not celebrate

    6 days ago | heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna

    Pope Leo after being elected (Image: AP Photo) The new Pope Leo XIV must deal with myriad issues confronting Catholicism, but anyone expecting radical change in its fundamental teachings will be disappointed. In a world where information is received instantly via ethereal highways the election of the Pope was borne on a cloud of white smoke. Change in the Catholic Church makes glacial seem hasty.

  • This devastating new film exposes SNP's cruel failure to help drug addicts

    1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna

    “The public won’t see the next drug death spike until after the election,” she wrote last month. “That’s not just bad timing; it’s political convenience. Between December 2024 and February 2025, Scotland saw a 17% rise in suspected drug deaths.

  • I made a pilgrimage to a wetland paradise

    1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Kevin McKenna

    Dan Snowdon, warden RSPB Lochwinnoch, left with Kevin McKenna. Photograph by Colin Mearns (Image: Colin Mearns) Dawn is arriving on a glorious wetland paradise in Scotland’s central lowlands, and a pair of great crested grebes are sharing an intimate moment in the reeds. They pass a clump of weeds between them, before bowing elegantly and then setting off across the water.

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Kevin McKenna
Kevin McKenna @kmckenna63
11 May 25

There’s the family gee-gee doing the business at Newcastle … https://t.co/Yeeke2sASE

Kevin McKenna
Kevin McKenna @kmckenna63
11 May 25

There’s no polite way of putting this: Scotland with this lot at the helm is not fit for independence. Cheered on by their favoured media glove-puppets, they have embarrassed this country on the global stage: my Diary in @heraldscotland https://t.co/OI0dbYkdUp

Kevin McKenna
Kevin McKenna @kmckenna63
10 May 25

To avoid any confusion amongst staff when next I visit the Holyrood cludgie: I'm a bloke and I've got the pronouns to prove it 👍