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Kenny Farquharson in Scotland: Politics. Culture. Essays. Photography. From an award-winning Times newspaper columnist.

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About Kenny Farquharson

Columnist with The Times 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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