Neil Mackay
Writer-at-Large at The Herald (Scotland)
Journalist, author, filmmaker, broadcaster. Writer at Large @heraldscotland MDANT🎖️Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
Child grooming was reported in The Herald more than 25-years ago (picture posed by model) (Image: Newsquest) Twenty-five years ago I embarked on the most disturbing and personally upsetting investigation of my career. It began around the end of the year 2000 when a police officer told me that "child prostitutes" were "working" on the streets of Glasgow. I urge you not to hate this officer for the words used. Back then, that was the only language available.
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heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
A detainee at Guantanamo (Image: PA) Memory is rather unfashionable these days. Nobody seems able to remember a simple fact anymore, unless prompted by the phone in their pocket. We’ve forgotten the most basic skills, like map-reading. Indeed, some appear to have forgotten how to read anything more than a few hundred characters of text before slipping into an attention-collapse. However, you’d think that we’d manage to remember that our government engaged in torture.
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heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
As Zara Mohammed steps down as head of the Muslim Council of Britain, she talks to our Writer at Large about racism, Reform and rioting Zara Mohammed has a nervous habit of laughing as she describes distinctly unfunny events. Memories of being physically confronted by a screaming racist on the London underground. Laughter. Recalling the Tory Party’s attempt to label her an extremist. Laughter. Describing the violence her dad faced from the National Front. Laughter.
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newageislam.com | Fidel Rahmati |Janatan Sayeh |Neil Mackay |Enioluwa Adeniyi
15 June 2025 Faculty members were asked to cross-check the content of each course and confirm by June 16 that none of the above items were included (Archive) * No References To Pakistan, Iqbal Or Manusmriti In Delhi University Syllabi: E-mail of Dean of Academics * Al-Azhar University's Jew-Hating Jihad Reaches Colorado * Hardline Jamaat-e-Islami Accuses Muhammad Yunus Of 'Special Affection' For A Party After Meet With BNP * Thick Smoke OverPort City Of Haifa As Iran Begins Second Night Of...
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
Sign up for the Unspun politics newsletter and receive exclusive analysis and opinion straight to your inbox (Image: X) This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. I know the streets, I know the houses. I certainly know the people.
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A modern masterpiece, a novel that does for Africa today what Dickens did for Victorian Britain My review of Theft by the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in @heraldscotland https://t.co/NwnBZLn5C2 https://t.co/DLB6ea2yZj
RT @NeilMackay: ‘This could signal the end of homo sapiens’ I talk to Prof Richard Susskind, Britain’s leading technologist and government…
‘This could signal the end of homo sapiens’ I talk to Prof Richard Susskind, Britain’s leading technologist and government advisor. He warns AI will usher in mass unemployment for us and untold wealth for just a handful of tech barons In @heraldscotland https://t.co/tJlGYus6LY