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I was a teenage Nat

I was a teenage Nat

My political education, Part 1

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Kenny Farquharson
Feb 23, 2025
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Kenny Farquharson, centre in tartan tammy, with mother Nancy and brother Gerry, at Loch Ness, circa 1974. Picture: Jim Farquharson

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NOTE FROM KENNY: This is the first in a three-part series in which I chart my political education: first as a child, then as a young man and finally as a journalist.

“Perhaps what one wants to say is formed in childhood…

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