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Kenny Farquharson

Edinburgh

Columnist at The Times

Editor at The Jaggy Thistle

Columnist with @thetimes in Scotland. Editor of The Jaggy Thistle substack. Orwell Fellow. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.

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Articles

  • Handing the Open to Trump's Turnberry would be grubby corruption

    2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Kenny Farquharson

    Perhaps this is the reason for my rising disgust as I watch the Open become the latest sacrificial offering to Donald Trump from a supplicant British nation. Trump is determined to bring the , the South Ayrshire links course he bought for £39.5 million in 2014. The championship last came to Turnberry in 2009. The US president is famously transactional.

  • My first newspaper splash

    2 weeks ago | thejaggythistle.substack.com | Kenny Farquharson

    Belfast in April 1985 felt tense. A few weeks earlier nine officers in the Royal Ulster Constabulary had been killed in an Irish Republican Army mortar attack on a police station in Newry. It was RUC’s highest loss of life in a single day in the whole of the Troubles. Anger was brewing in Portadown that would soon erupt into a summer of rioting by loyalists.

  • Swinney has been caught in his own Reform trap

    3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Kenny Farquharson

  • Notebook #13: Photo North, The Hepworth, Scotland Forever

    3 weeks ago | thejaggythistle.substack.com | Kenny Farquharson

    To Yorkshire, for a couple of days of cultural wandering in a part of England of which I know very little. I intend to go exploring far and wide with my Jaggy Thistle notebook in hand over the coming months and years. The Jaggy Thistle on the road. First stop on my Yorkshire tour was Photo North, a photography festival in Leeds now in its sixth year. Held over three days with 15 exhibitions and a dozen events, it puts Scotland’s arts world to shame. Where is our version of Photo North?

  • Promoting Scotland at Tartan Week needed a united front

    1 month ago | thetimes.com | Kenny Farquharson

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Kenny Farquharson
Kenny Farquharson @KennyFarq
5 May 25

Those corrupting unAmerican movies and genres, in full: Mr Bean Wallace and Gromit Films with Keira Knightly in a big frock All the James Bond films Billy Elliot Mary Poppins Etc etc

Kenny Farquharson
Kenny Farquharson @KennyFarq
5 May 25

Trump would have put a tariff on The Beatles.

Kenny Farquharson
Kenny Farquharson @KennyFarq
4 May 25

Zia Yusuf, the Reform chairman, is now the most influential Scot in British politics.