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When will SNP voters finally realise they've been conned?

At last weekend’s SNP conference in Aberdeen, John Swinney comfortably squashed a motion by party rebels over how to achieve independence and to...

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Kevin Mckenna

A year after his death, SNP should be celebrating Alex Salmond - not cancelling him

Exactly one year on from his death, this weekend’s SNP conference should be dedicated to Alex Salmond’s memory. Instead, the name of the greatest...

monday 3

Kevin Mckenna

Hmm ... so why is Salmond not idolised by SNP's high heid yins like Sturgeon is?

Exactly one year on from his death, this weekend’s SNP conference should be dedicated to Alex Salmond’s memory. Instead, the name of the greatest...

monday 20

Kevin Mckenna

'SNP is pretending Alex Salmond, their greatest leader, never even existed'

A year has passed since I witnessed Alex Salmond’s final journey into Aberdeen airport. Scotland’s greatest First Minister had died a few days...

12.10.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

'There is no genocide happening in Gaza and John Swinney knows it'

Every Thursday afternoon since the October 7 massacre by Hamas in 2023 a group of Scottish Jews has gathered silently outside Holyrood to sanctify the...

11.10.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

In era of Sandie Peggie, I met a brave woman who raised early alarm over gender 'war'

Scottish poet and author Jenny Lindsay says she was hounded after she began to question aspects of gender self-ID and how it had been weaponised by...

09.10.2025 5

Kevin Mckenna

Two years on from horror of Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, anti-Semitism rules UK

Two years after the Hamas attacks on October 7, Scotland’s Jewish community will say a Kaddish and ask why they now live in fear in the country they...

08.10.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

Will A.I. help us to uphold our human dignity – or dismantle it altogether?

Will the development of AI technology by companies, governments and the super-rich improve society? asks Kevin McKenna The other day, two of my...

01.10.2025 7

Kevin Mckenna

Yes, I have indeed parked in disabled spots - but accept my excuses for it are mince

IN the car park of a neighbourhood Co-op last week only a memory of previous iniquities thwarted a dramatic stand-off. The facility provides space for...

29.09.2025 8

Kevin Mckenna

Linking Christianity to the far right is plain lazy and wrong

The death of Charlie Kirk has encouraged some bad actors to weaponise Christian belief at both ends of the political spectrum, argues Kevin McKenna ...

25.09.2025 4

Kevin Mckenna

Gritty local derby is the heart and soul of Scottish football - and it’s magnificent

In Lennoxtown last Saturday afternoon, the sun is losing an uphill battle with the vast sheets of rain casting a penumbra over the Campsie Hills. Down...

18.09.2025 8

Kevin Mckenna

The fake left's hatred of Charlie Kirk is driving decent people to Nigel Farage

The backlash against those exulting in Charlie Kirk’s murder and the multitudes who gathered in London on Saturday have unnerved the Left. To what...

17.09.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Why I don't think the SNP can be trusted with independence anymore

The SNP keeps issuing a new clarion call for another independence referendum but John Swinney's demands are toothless, says feature writer and...

10.09.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

For Women Scotland is right - SNP must stop backsliding on Supreme Court judgment

For Women Scotland will be protesting outside Holyrood on Thursday about what they say is the Scottish Government's refusal to follow the Supreme...

03.09.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

Scotland can’t let the poison of asylum hotel protests spread

The Broadcroft Hotel in Kirkintilloch has worked hard over two decades to establish itself as a first-class dining and events venue. To gain the trust...

27.08.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

May there always be sunshine on Leith and glory to the Hibees

When the Hibs are playing well, the spirit of old Leith rises once more amidst the gentrification that’s recently settled in these streets. And...

25.08.2025 4

Kevin Mckenna

Those trolls who tried to ruin young Skye's big football break make me sick

An older male like me, who’s never encountered a hint of jeopardy on account of my sex, can never begin to understand what women feel when they’re...

20.08.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

The last reason to vote SNP has just walked out the door

The only surprising element of Kate Forbes’ resignation announcement is that it’s taken so long. For the SNP though, a measure of jeopardy...

08.08.2025 30

Kevin Mckenna

What will Swinney say to Trump? The mind boggles

The conversation between the world’s most narcissistic leader, Donald Trump and its most craven, John Swinney could be entertaining. “I...

30.07.2025 6

Kevin Mckenna

There's a strain of delinquency at the heart of our public bodies A superannuated class of salon opportunists has insinuated itself into the Labour Party, the trade unions, the SNP and the Greens and rendered them impotent.

The implosion of the British Left has been so thorough that you’re often compelled to give yourself a values health-check lest you fall into the...

23.07.2025 8

Kevin Mckenna

Sandie Peggie's case against NHS Fife is more important than Supreme Court judgment

How did it ever come to this in Scotland, which many Scots regard as one of the most enlightened and progressive nations on the planet? How did the...

16.07.2025 60

Kevin Mckenna

I sailed from Ardrossan to Arran - here's why the service must be saved

The business case for retaining Ardrossan Harbour as the main crossing point to Arran seemed joyously compelling on Saturday. As the morning broke...

15.07.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

How Scotland’s satnav socialists abandoned working-class people

Someone asked Ernest Hemingway how he had gone bankrupt. “Two ways,” the great writer had replied: “Gradually, then suddenly.” The decline of...

09.07.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

We are being softened up to dismiss the sanctity of life

At Mass last Sunday, our parish priest delivered a sermon which conveyed the Catholic Church’s belief in the sanctity of all human life. In the...

02.07.2025 4

Kevin Mckenna

John Clark, the Lisbon Lion, was from when football was about more than money

And then there were three. The death of John Clark, announced today, leaves only three surviving members of Celtic’s Lisbon Lions, the greatest ever...

24.06.2025 4

Kevin Mckenna

Welcome to our book festival. It's diverse, inclusive but don't forget your pronouns

I feel the organisers of this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival have been unfairly maligned for seeking to bring kindness into the cruel...

18.06.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Does Labour have the guts to ditch the trans activism, climatism and Gaza-ology? 'The Left has lost its ability to communicate with everyday people. They are focused on identity politics and other issues that are of no concern to working people'

If Anas Sarwar and John Swinney had accompanied me on my travels around Scotland’s central belt last week they might have gained some insight into...

11.06.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Out of touch Holyrood has created the conditions for rise of the great Reform con

Some of those who like to flash their liberal credentials are fond of deploying words like ‘Fascism’ and ‘bigotry’. Thus, if you are...

04.06.2025 50

Kevin Mckenna

I walked these by-election streets - and discovered why Reform are on the rise In England, the unlovely rhetoric of Nigel Farage has exploited the fears of a white, working class cohort anxious about the effects of mass immigration in their communities. In Scotland, though, Reform has become the focus for something else entirely.

The big chap seemed to emerge from nowhere and I was immediately on my guard. He was tall and solid with a no-nonsense haircut and looked like he...

01.06.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Forget reducing takeaway portions - we need an East German style Comestible Commissar Kevin McKenna welcomes the news that the Scottish Government is going to 'dae sumthin' about the obesity crisis

I cheered out loud and snapped open my tender stem broccoli at the Scottish Government’s long overdue plans to ‘dae sumthin’ about Scotland’s...

28.05.2025 9

Kevin Mckenna

SNP leaders have betrayed voters - no wonder Reform is on the march in Scotland

As Scotland approached the first referendum on independence in 2014 a grand nationalist delusion began to emerge which many of its adherents were...

28.05.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

'Orange Order's enemies are not found in the Catholic Church - they are in Holyrood' As a Catholic growing up in the west of Scotland, the Orange Order and their walks loomed large for Herald writer Kevin McKenna as a child. So we asked him to spend a day with the Order. Here's how he got on

The Most Worthy Grand Mistress of the Ladies Orange Association of Scotland has invited me to their annual Church Parade and Service and I feel it...

16.05.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

I'm Kevin and I'm a Catholic so why do I feel a certain empathy for the Orange Lodge?

It was during childhood summer holidays spent in Girvan that I first encountered the Orange Walk. On the first Sunday after July 12, hundreds of...

16.05.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: Fake liberals wage war on Scotland's poorest and most vulnerable folk

The shallowness of Scotland’s counterfeit liberals is never more evident than in their loathing of working class people. They are a gaseous and...

14.05.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin Mckenna: Devastating new film exposes SNP's cruel failure to help drug addicts

The SNP’s failures in their governance of Scotland are vast and many and none more so than their disregard for the victims of drug addiction. As the...

07.05.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: The right to free speech doesn’t include embarrassing Scotland

I’m minded to sympathise with my esteemed colleague Neil Mackay when he sought last week to defend Maggie Chapman’s diatribe against the Supreme...

30.04.2025 5

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: A new Pope needs to visit Scotland and wake up our sleepy bishops

First, the bad news. According to the prophecy of St Malachy, a 13th century Irish bishop, Pope Francis was the last of St Peter’s 266 successors....

23.04.2025 40

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: Francis had the wisdom to foster a renewed sense of compassion

An hour had passed since the death of Pope Francis yesterday morning and already the BBC people were asking bewildered guests about his "legacy"....

22.04.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

Every single civic body in Scotland was complicit in 'The Great Silencing' of women TO Edinburgh, where a large contingent of feminists have gathered to hear the Supreme Court’s verdict on For Women Scotland versus Scottish ministers.

TO Edinburgh, where a large contingent of feminists have gathered to hear the Supreme Court’s verdict on For Women Scotland versus Scottish...

21.04.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: An extra 20k for ministers? John Swinney’s now trolling Scotland

The civic Scotland gravy train has finally made it to Bute House. If you listen very carefully, you can hear it rumble over the tracks as it moves on...

15.04.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: This circus of chancers would be bested by a decent bowling club

In the earliest days of the newly-reconvened Scottish Parliament a tired refrain could be heard from assorted Unionist curmudgeons. “It doesn’t...

09.04.2025 6

Kevin Mckenna

Disgusting online rumours and innuendo on Nicola Sturgeon is an utter disgrace

I’ve been disturbed by some of the online commentary about Nicola Sturgeon following the news that she’ll face no charges relating to Operation...

07.04.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: No amount of titles for Celtic is worth this pain for a single child For two decades, the Celtic Boys Club provided a steady stream of gifted young footballers for Celtic, including Tommy Burns, George McCluskey and Roy Aitken. Yet, when whistle-blowers raised concerns about the abuse of youngsters at the club they were marginalised. Celtic should have done the right thing long before now, says Kevin Mckenna

Long before the police began to investigate claims of child sex abuse at Celtic Boys Club more than one whistle-blower had attempted to alert Celtic...

02.04.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: If the Devil's afoot, why aren't we being told?

Is the Devil afoot? And if he is, then why aren’t we being told? In the last week or so, reports from around the world indicate that the Prince...

02.04.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: How the SNP and Labour killed off left-wing politics

Several moments have typified the abduction of the UK left and its replacement by a counterfeit class of artisan activists. None though, seemed as...

26.03.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: SNP’S departing MSPs represent the worst of us. They won't be missed

A reasonable barometer to measure how much an elected politician "worked for you" is to track their employment history after leaving politics. They...

19.03.2025 9

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin McKenna: Glasgow St Patrick’s Day parade was an important day for all Scotland

As Glasgow’s first St Patrick’s Day parade wound down towards the Merchant City from Blythswood Square on Saturday morning, some old men could be...

12.03.2025 20

Kevin Mckenna

Many decent folk support Reform because SNP is now a haven for frauds and extremists

MUCH jollity will ensue in the next few weeks as it becomes clear who in Scotland’s swollen suite of civic panjandrums has been invited to John...

10.03.2025 10

Kevin Mckenna

Glasgow belongs to everyone - not just folk who can afford fancy restaurants and bars

I spent a rewarding few hours last week with Susan Aitken, leader of Glasgow City Council. She’d initially been slightly wary, I felt, and this was...

26.02.2025 9

Kevin Mckenna

Kevin Mckenna: Barring indy champ like Fergus Ewing would be SNP’s ultimate betrayal Fergus Ewing is one of the few SNP voices supporting the lifeline jobs in the North Sea oil and gas sector and exposing the Scottish Greens’ environmental fictions. He has watched aghast as the Greens have poisoned the independence movement. If the SNP bar him from standing it will represent the ultimate betrayal by this zombie party.

In the decade or so that’s passed since the referendum on independence the scale of the SNP’s betrayal of the wider movement has been...

18.02.2025 60

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'There is no genocide happening in Gaza and John Swinney knows it'

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In era of Sandie Peggie, I met a brave woman who raised early alarm over gender 'war'

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Linking Christianity to the far right is plain lazy and wrong

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For Women Scotland is right - SNP must stop backsliding on Supreme Court judgment

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Scotland can’t let the poison of asylum hotel protests spread

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May there always be sunshine on Leith and glory to the Hibees

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Those trolls who tried to ruin young Skye's big football break make me sick

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There's a strain of delinquency at the heart of our public bodies A superannuated class of salon opportunists has insinuated itself into the Labour Party, the trade unions, the SNP and the Greens and rendered them impotent.

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Sandie Peggie's case against NHS Fife is more important than Supreme Court judgment

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How Scotland’s satnav socialists abandoned working-class people

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We are being softened up to dismiss the sanctity of life

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John Clark, the Lisbon Lion, was from when football was about more than money

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Welcome to our book festival. It's diverse, inclusive but don't forget your pronouns

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Does Labour have the guts to ditch the trans activism, climatism and Gaza-ology? 'The Left has lost its ability to communicate with everyday people. They are focused on identity politics and other issues that are of no concern to working people'

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Out of touch Holyrood has created the conditions for rise of the great Reform con

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Forget reducing takeaway portions - we need an East German style Comestible Commissar Kevin McKenna welcomes the news that the Scottish Government is going to 'dae sumthin' about the obesity crisis

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SNP leaders have betrayed voters - no wonder Reform is on the march in Scotland

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'Orange Order's enemies are not found in the Catholic Church - they are in Holyrood' As a Catholic growing up in the west of Scotland, the Orange Order and their walks loomed large for Herald writer Kevin McKenna as a child. So we asked him to spend a day with the Order. Here's how he got on

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I'm Kevin and I'm a Catholic so why do I feel a certain empathy for the Orange Lodge?

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Kevin McKenna: Fake liberals wage war on Scotland's poorest and most vulnerable folk

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Every single civic body in Scotland was complicit in 'The Great Silencing' of women TO Edinburgh, where a large contingent of feminists have gathered to hear the Supreme Court’s verdict on For Women Scotland versus Scottish ministers.

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