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Kenny MacAskill
COMMON TOUCH: ommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan, meets members of the Saskatoon Light Infantry at Barneveld, Netherlands, in April 1945 Pic: G. Barry Gilroy/CC
Features / 31 January 2026
31 January 2026

One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story

NOT FORGOTTEN: The Monument to International Brigades on the site of the Brigades HQ at the site of the Battle of Jarama in 2014 / Pic: Dennisbluie/CC
Features / 3 January 2026
3 January 2026

KENNY MacASKILL pays tribute to Alex McDade, the International Brigader who fell at Brunete but wrote one of the most famous songs to emerge from the Spanish Civil War

A pint being pulled at a pub in London, Dcember 2024
Society / 17 December 2025
17 December 2025

Alba party leader KENNY MacASKILL makes some suggestions on how to save our pubs and reduce irresponsible drinking

John Wheatley. Photo: wellcomeimages.org/CC
Features / 22 November 2025
22 November 2025

Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL

David Speedie
Features / 9 November 2025
9 November 2025

Kenny MacAskill remembers a ‘Sovietologist’ and voice for peace and reconciliation at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

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Book Review / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

KENNY MACASKILL recommends an informative and highly readable exposure of the asbestos industry

Gwynt y Mor, the world's 2nd largest offshore wind farm loca
Features / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

To deepen the wound of closing Grangemouth, the wind power boom off our shores is going to corporations from France, Japan, China, Ireland — jobs and money going everywhere, it seems, except Scotland, writes KENNY MACASKILL

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Books / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025

KENNY MACASKILL welcomes an outstanding biography that gives full context to the life of Scotland’s greatest early 20th century novelist

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Books / 29 August 2025
29 August 2025

KENNY MACASKILL delivers his assessment of Nicloa Sturgeon’s account of her political career

FOREIGN CASH COWS: Forth Port’s bid to be a new green free
Opinion / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
KENNY MacASKILL argues that ports are a local community assets and as such should be governed by corresponding municipalities or even nationalised
PROFITS AT ANY COST: Energy cost protesters outside the Pala
Features / 4 May 2024
4 May 2024
Dire times ahead as the collective energy debt in the UK now amounts to £3.1 billion, writes KENNY MACASKILL
WHOSE POWER: The first of two electricity substations built
Features / 20 April 2024
20 April 2024
The wind energy boom in Scotland is not going to Scotland — why are we allowing both the jobs and the energy being produced go to foreign companies, asks KENNY MACASKILL MP