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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2h

The output of BBC Scotland, on radio and TV, is universally awful. Every exec needs binned and replaced. The staff are good, decent professionals. The bosses are useless tax-sponges

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16h

Good Morning Scotland has become 'stale' and fixated on echoing 'uninformed comments' from listeners, which has led to the show's potential axing, insiders have reportedly claimed

Good Morning Scotland fixated on echoing 'uninformed comments', BBC insider claims

www.thenational.scot

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2h

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2h

Caligula groomed to take over the empire

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine falling in love and years later discovering your partner has been leading a secret life as a terrorist

That’s what happened to Mary Attenborough. The man she thought was her devoted lover was in fact in the IRA

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

‘I fell in love with a Glasgow charmer … but he was secretly in the IRA’

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption

They talk to me in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

Mary met the love of her life, then one day anti-terror police kicked in their door and dragged Michael away at gunpoint. He swore he was innocent but was convicted of one of Britain’s most infamous terrorist attacks

Then he confessed he’d been living a lie…

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

What’s it like to fall in love with a man, live with him for years and one day discover he’s got a secret life … as a terrorist

I talk to Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher about love, lies, betrayal and life in the IRA

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4h

Great story isn’t it

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 4h

I love this. I take it someone already has the movie rights?

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

Mary met the love of her life, then one day anti-terror police kicked in their door and dragged Michael away at gunpoint. He swore he was innocent but was convicted of one of Britain’s most infamous terrorist attacks

Then he confessed he’d been living a lie…

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4h

You were president on January 6, you daft old cunt

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

‘I fell in love with a Glasgow charmer … but he was secretly in the IRA’

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption

They talk to me in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

Mary met the love of her life, then one day anti-terror police kicked in their door and dragged Michael away at gunpoint. He swore he was innocent but was convicted of one of Britain’s most infamous terrorist attacks

Then he confessed he’d been living a lie…

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 5h

What’s it like to fall in love with a man, live with him for years and one day discover he’s got a secret life … as a terrorist

I talk to Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher about love, lies, betrayal and life in the IRA

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine falling in love and years later discovering your partner has been leading a secret life as a terrorist

That’s what happened to Mary Attenborough. The man she thought was her devoted lover was in fact in the IRA

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

The IRA and the Scottish man involved in Heathrow mortar attack

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life together: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption.…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22h

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22h

Dude, take a look at the fucking state of yourself

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

now do jan 6th

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 23h

I’m not saying it worked. I’m saying they made a promise to be better and it was bullshit

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 23h

I’m afraid I’ve got to pay the bills just like any worker

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 23h

We were absolutely told at the time that Holyrood would not do the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster. I remember reporting on it at the time. Which is why I said it here. I don’t write made up nonsense

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