Articles by Tommy Mackay

My Favourite Dictators

  Would you like to blow on some hot potatoes? And cuddle up to history’s best debaters My aye aye aye My favourite dictators… from the album Imagine There’s No Album by The Sensational Alex…


Ophelia

  Ophelia, you’re breaking the sky You’re making John Redwood more scary Oh, Ophelia, you made the sun red Wood John be more dead than alive if he tried The weather bods are getting uptight…


Positively Forth Bridge

  You got a lotta cables to keep you in suspense You span the Forth from Fife to South Queensferry You used to have a toll when that used to make sense But now that…


Whisky Galore In The Jar

  The late, great bobble hatted Tom Weir gives his account of the grounding of the whisky-laden SS Politician which sank off the coast of Eriskay in 1941. Accompanied by Thin Lizzy, naturally.



Colonel Gadaftie

  Who’s the gal when things get rough Sitting on a tank and stuff? You’re havin a laugh eh? It’s Colonel Gadaftie! from the album Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard by Half Bam Half Whisky….


Crazy Boris

There’s an arsehole with floppy hair Yes, it’s Boris Johnston – London Mayor He’s a pillock, but those cockernees Think it’s funny they’ve elected him big cheese What a show, there he goes befriending Merseyside,…


Nick Robinson

(words by @Tucker5law)   And here’s to you, Mr Robinson Kuensberg loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo God bless you please, Mr Robinson Newsnight likes to stay above the fray? hey…


Biscuit Tinnitus

  Kenny came from East Ayrshire With one overriding desire To see Half Man Half Biscuit play And his dream came true one day He went to see them in Bournemouth But afterwards he felt…


Coment On The Latest Jackie Baillie Pish

  Give a man a fishing rod and he can fish Give the Scottish Labour Party one wee wish That their emails were worth seeing Without the subject being Coment on the latest Jackie Baillie…