Articles by Tommy Mackay


Free Fallon

He’s a bad boy, loves his mummy Loves Theresa and Brexit too He’s a bad boy, who’s got no defence now Free falling below his own high standards oooh And it’s a long day lyin’…


A Frightfully Posh Halloween

  Hello old bean How is Jocasta? We’re having a frightfully posh soiree It’s Halloween, we’re having pasta Shaped like the bats in our belfry We’ve invited all the locals Tarquin is getting rather tipsy…


Rack And Ruin

Well, I don’t care about this tory. Rack, rack, rack and ruin – I is cool Gonna shake my magic money tree Rack, rack, rack and ruin- I is cool I’m so tired of all…


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….