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Journalist, Glaswegian, Celtic man … He/Tim

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Kevin McKenna
7 years
Looks like Jeremy Corbyn has single-handedly rescued a Scottish Labour Party which has been slaughtering him for the last two years #GE2017
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Nicola Sturgeon leaves Boris Johnson needing snookers: ‘It would be catastrophic for me to drop the stay-at-home message which is why I am not prepared to do it. And I’m particularly not prepared to do it in favour of a message that is vague and imprecise’
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
I’ve got to say this: the mocking contempt of ‘clever’ Remainers at ‘stupid’ Leavers being interviewed on tv last night and whom they obviously consider to be their intellectual inferiors is nauseating. It’s one of the reasons Brexit happened
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
My column tomorrow in The Herald is asking why Nicola Sturgeon has gone full Donald Trump by gas-lighting her own people …
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
Joanna Cherry: I’ve been getting death threats and abuse. Police Scotland: We’ll give you 24hr protection. SNP: You’re fired
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
My friend, Joan McAlpine is one of the most intelligent people I know. She wrote this today
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Kevin McKenna
7 months
The SNP have become obsolete. To vote for them now is simply to maintain the lifestyles of a nasty and vindictive cast of impostors who’ve been laughing at us for the last eight years: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
‘If Kate Forbes or Ash Regan were to win, a very large and serpentine gravy train would grind to a halt and a lot of professional spongers would be invited to hop off’: my column in The National
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Six years ago it wasn’t the actual result that got to me badly: I could live with that; it was Labour people who’d stolen a wage from their communities dancing with the Tories, the eternal foes of those communities
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Kevin McKenna
3 months
Humza Yousaf's decision to deny Jews any mention of their name in his Holocaust Remembrance message was utterly shameful: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Scottish Independence is no longer a nice idea, it's a necessity: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
The SNP careerists and troughers breathe a massive sigh of relief. As do Unionists across the UK …
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
There was one election today and it returned two separate countries
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Rangers might just have done us a favour here: a real 2016 Scottish Cup semi final moment of truth for Celtic. Lawwell and Desmond need to get tooled up and serious
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Kevin McKenna
6 months
The contempt these impostors have for the people of Scotland is breathtaking
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Joanna Cherry is the pure cat’s whiskers: an outstanding politician ... just thought I’d say
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Kevin McKenna
10 years
If foodbanks keep growing at this rate the Tories will privatise them
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
The orchestrated campaign to intimidate Joanna Cherry has started again. It’s time some of her supporters at Holyrood and Westminster came out publicly and nailed this wickedness: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
Don’t think I’ve been prouder of a Scotland performance than that. Simply magnificent. Take a bow Steve Clarke
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
As the SNP leader prepares to respond to an historic defeat for the UK government ... it’s back to Andrew Neil: stay in your box Scotland
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Joanna Cherry is one of the SNP’s most talented politicians and a potential future leader of the party. She’s clearly made some influential people jealous
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Joanna Cherry KC
5 years
Important thread in my support from one of @EdinCentralSNP most respected activists. As I said I’m not yet in a position to fully tell my side of the story but be in no doubt these are politically motivated smears arising from @theSNP infighting
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Kevin McKenna
5 months
Massive error of judgment by Celtic
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Celtic Football Club
5 months
🏳️‍🌈 We're proud to support @StonewallScot 's #RainbowLaces campaign. Our Club captains will wear the rainbow armband during this weekend's fixtures 🌈 Lace up to #KeepItUp 💚 #CelticFC 🍀
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
My column in The Herald ...
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Kevin McKenna
9 years
Lib Dens rule out deal with SNP. In other news Stenhousemuir say they would never agree to a player swap agreement with Barcelona
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Kevin McKenna
2 years
‘A Police Scotland initiative forcing all employees to use personal pronouns has been scrapped. A staff survey revealed 73% of police officers didn’t know what a pronoun was ...’
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Kevin McKenna
7 years
Amazing that Corbyn now within a few points of May after sustained onslaught from Tories, media and Labour back-stabbers like Ian Murray
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Kevin McKenna
2 years
I wouldn’t trust this mob to use the census data properly anyway: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
7 years
That was a paranoid and rambling speech by a clearly weak and unstable Prime Minister who is miles out of her depth
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
This is my beautiful niece, Ciara. I couldn’t be more proud of her
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DownSyndromeSwimmingGB
4 years
Ciara McKenna was @UniofHerts today to speak to trainee midwives about her fantastic life. The key objective of @DSAinfo #TellitRight training is to ensure that health professionals have up to date, accurate & balanced info about living with #DownSyndrome
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Kevin McKenna
8 years
When the story of Scotland's journey to independence comes to be written several chapters will be devoted to the 2016 Tory party conference
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Scotland’s unwritten constitution, page 99: if you don’t want to be called baroness don’t ever say you don’t want to be called baroness
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Immense sadness at the death of Billy McNeill but pride in a life well-lived. Generations of Celtic supporters walked a little taller every day because he played for us and represented us. God rest him
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
The UK Government has ceased to function; the next 24 hours will show if the Opposition has too
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
The 'anti-TERF' misogyny that has hollowed out the SNP: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
I was privileged to witness the unveiling today of the An Gorta Mor memorial. And to honour the memory of all the generations of my family who came before me. This was their day too
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Kevin McKenna
12 days
No ‘Cis Women’: Real Women …
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Biology Rules Ok
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The SNP & Greens need to stop claiming Scotland is overflowing with rivers of hate.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It took Scotland centuries to earn its reputation as one of the most friendliest countries in the world, and it has taken the SNP & Greens less than a year to run it. 🏳️‍⚧️ #ScotlandDeservesBetter
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
What is it with Ruth Davidson and her curious obsession with Scottish independence? She is stealing a wage from the public purse: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
7 years
Theresa May's right on indyref2. Let's at least wait until police finish their inquiry into 20 or so Tory MPs for alleged electoral fraud
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
So it looks like the SNP’s long, dark night of the woke is coming to an end
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
We denounce the Tories for ‘talking down Scotland’ yet no-one portrays this country more negatively than the SNP: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Devastated about the death of my friend, Kevin McCarra. He was a good, kind and gentle man and the finest football writer Scotland has produced since Hugh McIlvanney and John Rafferty. God rest him
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Kevin McKenna
9 months
Here's what happened when employees of The Stand Comedy Club were confronted by their worst nightmare: an adult human female speaking the truth freely ... my despatch from the trenches at the Joanna Cherry event
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
The exploitation by Celtic and other affluent football clubs of the Government’s coronavirus bailout scheme is depressing: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Eye-watering handouts for the royals and the rule of the private school elites: the UK is a third-rate, pirate state: my column in The National
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Kevin McKenna
6 years
Celtic have known since January they'd win the title and face four qualifiers yet tonight they played the third of these without a single new face: strictly small-time mentality
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Returning from Ulva to Mull this afternoon. Sometimes Scotland takes your breath away
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
We all need to be patriotic and make sacrifices during this time of national crisis. So I’m sure the queen, most patriotic of us all, will understand if we requisition her ten palaces and castles
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Kevin McKenna
10 months
I just happened to bump into @AngusMacNeilSNP last night. 'It's been some day,' says he. ‘Come and tell your uncle Kev all about it,' say I. So he did. And it'll be in your @heraldscotland this Saturday
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
‘Lennon defended Celtic and bore the pain. He’s been doing that since he made his debut at Dens Park more than 20 years ago. He’s earned a free pass into Parkhead for life, and our eternal gratitude’
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
Bursting bubbles Glasgow style ... Shop asst: ‘Do I know you?’ Me (stifling delight): ‘I do a bit of writing’ She: ‘Got it: you did a speech at our Clare’s school’ Me (affecting modesty): ‘oh aye; I went on a bit long’ She: ‘You didnae half; Clare had to keep nudging me awake’
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
Scotland's indolent political classes have eagerly participated in the lie that men can become women. But it's a convenient lie: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
At its time of greatest peacetime peril it’s the UK’s bad luck to be landed with its most inept government. There will never be a better time to reach for an independent Scotland: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
7 years
The once-good ship Scottish Labour finally goes down with all hands singing from a Tory hymn-sheet
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
A civil war inside the SNP is raging - but only in the febrile imaginations of the usual suspects: my column in The National
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
100 days without a manager. No imminent second choice. No captain. No new players. New CEO invisible... Could the club provide us with a helpline number?
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Down's children like my beautiful niece Ciara are a gift – not a burden: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
1 month
I witnessed this anger in the raw at Alloa Women’s Festival on Saturday. Sturgeon and Yousaf, unwittingly, have reinvigorated the real women’s movement across Scotland
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J.K. Rowling
2 years
I don’t think our politicians have the slightest idea how much anger is building among women from all walks of life at the attempts to threaten and intimidate them out of speaking publicly about their own rights, their own bodies and their own lives. 1/3
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Remembrance Sunday is being twisted into a poppy witch-hunt: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
This won’t be beaten for Front Page of the Year
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Nicola McAlley
4 years
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Kevin McKenna
10 years
I voted Yes today. Hope over fear; enablement over entitlement
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
Regal deportment in Glasgow
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Kevin McKenna
4 months
As the Scottish Government seeks to endanger vulnerable young people and women in prison the work and wisdom of these three women have never seemed so vital …
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Kevin McKenna
7 years
Watching this makes you realise our National Stadium is a bike shed compared with the Welsh National Stadium
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Kevin McKenna
11 months
In the political league table of attempts at deflecting the voters’ attention, passing your driving test is hovering near the relegation zone
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Shelley Kerr there: praising the opposition; refusing to blame referee; answering the questions ... this’ll never catch on either
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Kevin McKenna
9 years
So Ed is saying he'd rather hand keys to No10 to a right wing party than do a deal with a socially progressive party?
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Kevin McKenna
12 days
On a challenging day for the SNP, finally some light …
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LGBT Greens say party could leave government in protest of NHS pause on puberty blockers.
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
My column in The Herald about the latest failed attempt to silence Joanna Cherry …
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1 year
'The SNP has betrayed the people of Scotland and we’re long past the stage when they could reasonably deemed fit to govern. A period in opposition is long overdue' | @kmckenna63
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
Why is Nicola Sturgeon acting like a poundland Donald Trump? My column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
11 months
If you care about the steady erosion of basic civil liberties and free speech and how the police have been weaponised to enable it then this should chill you …
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Caroline Farrow
11 months
I’m going to do a thread and limit replies. You’ll see why. Please do not speculate with names. But I think what is happening to me is important. I am not prohibited from talking about things in general terms.
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
In Glasgow the authentic independence March sets off
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
In 2014 Gordon Brown urged Scots to stay in the UK to safeguard their pensions
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AnotherGreen
4 years
#Tory plan to raise pension age to 75 "It proposes raising the eligible age to 70 by 2028 and 75 by 2035. The first people likely to be affected by such a change are those born between March 6, 1961 and April 5, 1977."
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Kevin McKenna
9 months
Bob’s on the money with this one … again. The Scottish Greens should be nowhere near the government of our country
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Bonnie Prince Bob
9 months
Should there be a private contract between your children and the state?
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Kevin McKenna
10 years
News just in: old red telephone boxes to be re-deployed to host Scottish Labour constituency meetings
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Kevin McKenna
1 year
The reality of Yousaf’s leadership is that we can forget about independence in this generation. For him and the mediocrities who’ll join his cabinet it’s only ever been about gaining power: my column in The National
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Kevin McKenna
8 years
Good to see @WingsScotland back on here. We've had our moments but his ban was a joke. Love him or loathe him he is essential reading
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Kevin McKenna
29 days
My interview with Bernard Ponsonby: ‘In 25 years of Holyrood nothing has changed in our poorest places. The people who live in them have no real connection with the institution that governs them’
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
After several years of political cowardice and cultural hostility a memorial to An Gorta Mor, Ireland’s Great Famine, was unveiled at St Mary’s Catholic Church in the Calton: my column in The Herald on a great day for the Irish
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Kevin McKenna
9 years
My sources tell me that The Telegraph's Sturgeon tale was based on documents discovered in the rubble of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
Scotland back in Europe
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Kevin McKenna
3 years
As the First Minister panders to the trans warriors real social inequality continues to rage among our most vulnerable: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Under Neil Lennon, Celtic have gone five successive away games in Europe unbeaten. This has only been equalled once in our European history, between 2011 and 2012. Guess who was the manager then? Brendan Rodgers was a good manager, but Neil is better
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Britain has been exposed as a gangster state. A growing majority of Scots know this: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Decent and tolerant England’s been abducted and won’t be coming back any time soon, so now is the time for Scotland to say ‘Enough’: my column in The Observer
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Kevin McKenna
5 years
Private schools exist for no reason other than to maintain power of the UK elite. We need to lose them; the sooner the better: my column in The Herald
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Kevin McKenna
9 years
Lib Dems have been waiting 100 years to rule out a deal with someone. Delighted for them
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Kevin McKenna
4 years
Congratulations to Neil Lennon on being officially recognised as the best football manager in Scotland. This man makes me proud that I was born, raised and continue to be a Celtic supporter
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