Neil Mackay (born 1969 or 1970) is a Northern Irish, Glasgow-based journalist, author and film maker.
[3] Mackay worked as a journalist in Northern Ireland, but after receiving death threats he moved to Scotland in 1996.
[1][4] In 1999, he was part of the team that launched the Sunday Herald, where he became the editor in 2015 and served in that capacity until 2018.
[5][6] In 2003, after a long investigation, he named a British spy who had infiltrated the Irish Republican Army.
It focuses on the disinformation campaign of the British government and questions the existence of democracy in the UK.