Kenny Farquharson ​​is a Scottish journalist and photographer. He has been a columnist for The Times since 2015, based in Edinburgh and writing about Scottish politics. 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 ran 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, interviewer of the year and arts & entertainment writer of the year.​ He is editor of The Jaggy Thistle, a Substack newsletter and podcast on Scottish politics and Scottish culture.