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Kevin Mckenna

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Sorry, Alan, but the tide has turned on the nonsensical gender ideology era

Sorry, Alan, but the tide has turned on the nonsensical gender ideology era

I am tempted to view recent developments around sex and gender as a turning of the tide. It’s as though a secret signal had been received warning...

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Kevin Mckenna

'Insidious woke culture' is putting the future of the crisis-hit BBC at risk

'Insidious woke culture' is putting the future of the crisis-hit BBC at risk

Those campaigning for the BBC licence fee to be scrapped should be careful what they wish for, says Herald writer Kevin McKenna At present,...

11.11.2025 6

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It's no wonder the world is raising an eyebrow at this naughty BBC newsreader

It's no wonder the world is raising an eyebrow at this naughty BBC newsreader

The hysterical, hyper-ventilated response to the recent on-air conduct of Martine Croxall beggars belief. The BBC journalist and newsreader had...

10.11.2025 5

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So Scotland is getting happier, is it? Aye, right

So Scotland is getting happier, is it? Aye, right

Scotland, it seems, is a bit happier than it was a couple of years ago. The Carnegie’s Life in the UK index 2025 tells us that more of us can heat...

05.11.2025 3

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A generation of golfers is being lost forever as much-loved courses forced to close

A generation of golfers is being lost forever as much-loved courses forced to close

My dreadful attempts at playing golf ended after six years when I turned 18. This was mainly because my attempts at hitting the ball evoked the banjo,...

02.11.2025 2

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Celtic’s breathtaking mini-apocalypse is a Netflix series in the making

Celtic’s breathtaking mini-apocalypse is a Netflix series in the making

Brendan Rodgers ’ sudden and acrimonious departure from Celtic has occurred at the worst possible time for them. Hearts may never have a better...

29.10.2025 3

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Reform are set to be Scotland’s second biggest party – and the SNP are to blame

Reform are set to be Scotland’s second biggest party – and the SNP are to blame

Once dismissed as fringe, Reform UK is now surging in Scotland — fuelled by anger, betrayal, and a political class that stopped listening, says...

29.10.2025 3

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Want rid of the royals? Then get ready to welcome President Farage

Prince Andrew has given up his Duke of York title following the release of Virginia Giuffre's memoir, in which she claimed that the disgraced royal...

27.10.2025 10

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SNP and Greens' drugs policies are a class-based attack on the poor

Less than two weeks ago, the SNP voted down the Right to Recovery Bill. The Scottish Greens who voted with them announced at their annual conference...

22.10.2025 8

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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...

15.10.2025 7

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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...

13.10.2025 3

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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...

13.10.2025 20

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'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

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'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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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

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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...

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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