Jackie Kemp - freelance journalist and writer - Edinburgh, Scotland

'Confusion To Our Enemies'

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The work that I started when creating the 'Arnold Kemp archive' has become a book - a selection of Arnold Kemp's best writing. The book is coming out this year on September 10 and will be available from all good bookshops.

 

My father Arnold Kemp and the Leveson Inquiry

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from the Scottish Review March 21, 2012


What would Arnold Kemp have thought of the Leveson inquiry? My father,  journalist and editor of this parish, will have been dead 10 years this September. So it was something of a surprise to his nearest and dearest to be called by the Guardian and told that his name had been raised at the Leveson inquiry in connection with a tragic and distressing case surrounding his columnist Jack McLean in the early 90s, a case touched on by Kenneth Roy in his SR column (13 March).


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The agenda behind the bill: feminisation of Scotland

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From the Scottish Review, Dec 2011. 


This piece is also in the Scottish Review anthology, Scottish Review 2012, available from www.scottsihreview.net.


It seems bizarre that the Scottish Government has forced through such a wide-ranging set of laws as the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill in the name of anti-sectarianism.


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Holidaying with teens in Sutherland

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Herald, Saturday magazine 30 May 2011

To say our teenagers were not keen on a week in a cottage in the far north of Scotland would be like saying Ryan Giggs is not a fan of Twitter. It was not, apparently, their idea of a holiday. The word they used in fact was “nightmare”. But I closed my ears to their girning – second nature now – and insisted they pack plenty of warm clothes and borrow some holiday reading from the school library.

Of course, I told myself, no self-respecting teenager would welcome a week in the Highlands with their parents. I am sure I made the same kind of extravagant complaints myself – but I did enjoy it once I was there.

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Competition for places at Scottish universities will be fierce in 2012

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Could Scottish students lose out as university places are offered to English school-leavers with lower A-level grades?

    Edinburgh university
    The McEwan Hall and Bristo Square at Edinburgh university. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian
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    Tiny school wants one for the roll

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    • "One more pupil please!" reads the appeal sent out by Rebecca Ridgway, desperate to find a young family prepared to move to one of the emptiest places in Europe to stop the school roll falling below 20 at her children's primary.

      Ridgway – who runs the adventure holiday company founded by her father, the yachtsman John Ridgway – takes her two children, Hughie, eight, and Molly, 10, to school each morning in an open boat with an outboard motor from their home in Ardmore, in Sutherland.

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