Robert McNeil

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Robert McNeil

Scots TV presenter Gail Porter rose to fame hosting children's shows (Image: Agency) THIS week’s subject is famous for her bottom and her head. The former was projected as part of a 60ft image on yonder Houses of Parliament, the latter fell victim to alopecia. Alopecia in women is an unfortunate condition worthy of sympathy and support, unlike male pattern baldness which is God’s punishment for lewd thoughts.

2 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Robert McNeil

Donovan had independently mined the same musical sources as Bob Dylan and, while he admitted that the great man’s seminal Blowin’ in the Wind was an inspiration, he creditably denied being a copyist IF YOU’D heard Donovan singing in the 1960s about sunshine, love and psychedelia, you’d never had guessed he was from Maryhill. San Francisco, aye. Even England. He had a Hertfordshire accent.

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Robert McNeil

The movie was filmed in Dumfries and Galloway in 1973 (Image: Agency) THIS week’s subject was set in Scotland rather than being Scottish of itself. In particular, its locale was supposedly an island with “a strong sense of community”, based on insular pagan beliefs. The words “strong sense of community” make all decent ratepayers shiver.

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Robert McNeil

RELIGION. God, what a lot of nonsense. While contemplating, on a lonely, peaceful shore far from tumult, this week’s subject, a voice in my head, like a proclamation from a burning bush, said: “Don’t go there, Roberto. Religion is a nutter-magnet.” Oh, I ken. But then another voice, from a winged, angelic being or, as it turned out, a seagull, said: “Just do it, Bobby old boy. Don’t wimp out. To hell, if it exists, with them all.

1 month ago | tucson.com | Robert McNeil

In my 72 years I have always been proud to be American. Trump is trying to end all that. What he did to Ukraine was so wrong I never thought it was even possible. He abandoned our allies and tried to shame a real hero, Zelenskyy, as if he were reading from Putin's playbook. Now Trump is willing to give Putin whatever he wants, rewarding him for invading our Ukrainian friend. I believe he should get nothing but war crimes.