
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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4 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
Fletcher Mathers, the Scottish actress who voiced ScotRail announcements for 20 years, has just been binned in favour of AI (Image: PA/Ryan McGoverne) I found myself having a conversation with AI last month. I’ve resisted engaging with this monster technology until now, but my voyeuristic inquisitiveness could no longer be contained. I had to take a peek into the locked room in the ogre’s castle marked "Danger". I’m about to finish a first draft of my latest novel.
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6 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
Nobody knows Glasgow better than architect Niall Murphy. To mark its 850th anniversary, he tells our Writer at Large about Glasgow’s journey from leading world city to a place of ‘blight’ TRAGEDY is the word Niall Murphy uses most to describe Glasgow. When he tells Glasgow’s story, when he leads you down the centuries and through the streets of this place he loves, a vision unfolds of a small, primitive settlement rising from the mud of the Clyde to become one of the world’s great cities.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
Many locals voiced their opposition to proposals only for their voices to be ignored and drowned out. (Image: Colin Mearns/Newsquest) As an Irishman there’s a risk that what I’m about to say will result in an exclusion order placed on me the next time I try to return to the land where I was raised. You see, whilst I consider Ireland beautiful - stunning, dramatic, mystical and breathtaking - my adopted homeland Scotland is even more gorgeous, more awe-inspiring.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
What does Nigel Farage know about the working class? (Image: Getty) A working-class hero is indeed something to be, something worth celebrating, especially these days, in the nepo-baby era when family connections and mummy and daddy’s money appear the only sure path to success in life.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Neil Mackay
When I was nine, my father took me to the most remarkable magic show I’ve ever seen. In a tent, on a windy hill along the north Antrim coast, a magician turned a man into a gorilla before our eyes. There were no curtains, no puffs of smoke. In the dim light, the man just slowly changed from human to ape. When the human was gone and only the gorilla remained on stage, a suit of clothes lay at its feet: all that was left of the man.
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