Events
23 May 18:00
Until 23 May
Kenny Farquharson - A Blank Page and a Deadline
A BLANK PAGE AND A DEADLINEWhat's it like writing a weekly column for a national newspaper? Kenny Farquharson of The Times, a new member of the club, will describe the pressures and pleasures of being a political columnist. Kenny will read from his Times journalism, answer questions, and introduce us to The Jaggy Thistle, his Substack newsletter, where he writes long-form narrative nonfiction.
Kenny Farquharson is a political columnist with The Times, based in Edinburgh. Career highs include being embedded with Scottish troops in Afghanistan and reporting on Barack Obama's presidential election campaign. One of Scotland’s most seasoned political commentators, he was the first convenor of the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists' Association at the birth of devolution. As a newspaper editor he helmed Scotland on Sunday and was deputy editor of The Scotsman. He is an Orwell Fellow, having been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. In the Scottish Press Awards he has won political journalist of the year, columnist of the year and interviewer of the year. His weekly Times column on Scottish politics has been running since 2015.
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