Neil Mackay
Writer-at-Large at The Herald (Scotland)
Journalist, author, filmmaker, broadcaster. Made in Ireland, found in Scotland. Writer at Large @heraldscotland MDANT🏅
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
Care home numbers can average 33,000 residents, but go as high as 58,000. That’s much higher than the average hospital population of around 15-17,000. Dr Donald Macaskill runs Scottish Care. It represents the care industry in Scotland and today he tells our Writer at Large that the system is broken and ready to go under at any moment “I TRY not to use statistics, because each statistic is a person.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
The care sector could be heading for crisis, it has been warned (Image: The Herald) THE Scottish care industry is on its knees and faces collapse within three months, the Herald on Sunday has learned. In an exclusive interview, Dr Donald Macaskill, the chief executive of the industry body Scottish Care, issued a stark warning about the existential challenges facing the sector.
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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: Derek McArthur) This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater should have quit as Green Party co-leaders when the Bute House deal with the SNP collapsed.
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3 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
King Arthur was said to have been handed his sword, Excalibur, by the mysterious deity, the Lady of the Lake (Image: Getty) Salka, the Lady of the Lake Francesca SimonFaber £12.99 THE cloak of myth is a fine and covert delivery mechanism for truths about the modern world, especially in this era of culture war and division.
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3 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
A Vanguard-class submarine equipped with Trident missiles (Image: PA) My position on nuclear weapons reflects that of many folk, I reckon. Like a mountain switchback road, it has altered course at times over my life. As a 1980s Cold War kid, I was uncontroversially anti-nukes. Most of us were, apart from teenage Tories who wore suits on Saturdays. In the 1990s, I had a rather more mature view.
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Spent a fabulous day travelling through Andalusia with our @Rabbies_Travel driver and guide exploring the Pueblos Blancos (white town) Ronda built on a cliff top over a vertiginous gorge. Then stopped off at designer Philippe Starck’s olive oil farm. It’s work of art in itself https://t.co/hDUyvwLoNg
Spent today exploring the Alhambra in Granada. Absolutely sumptuous Islamic architecture, and the gardens are like something out of the Arabian Nights. Before we arrived we detoured with our @Rabbies_Travel driver and guide to the weird town of Guadix where folk live in caves https://t.co/f514W9N7gT
Journeying through Andalusia today to Granada with my guide & driver from @Rabbies_Travel Spent the morning saying goodbye to Cordoba then visiting Moorish castles with stunning views of snow covering the Sierra Nevada. Now at my hotel by the Alhambra. What a view from my room! https://t.co/bSIrm4jWFw