Kenny Farquharson
senior writer
Kenny Farquharson has been a political columnist for The Times in Scotland since 2015. Career highs include being embedded with Scottish troops in Afghanistan and reporting on Barack Obama's presidential election campaign. A veteran of the politics of devolution, he was the first convener of the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists' Association. 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. He is editor of The Jaggy Thistle newsletter on Substack.