Glad to see award outside the SDNS mafia. We put up Darren McGarvey for an award a few years back for his cols on Sceptical Scot that formed a basis for Poverty Safari. Zero response but he won the Orwell Prize a year later with same/similar material…
Well done Kenny. A wee bit of journalistic history being made. Oh and my sub is well worth the money to keep you employed. Hopefully this award doesn’t mean your rates are increasing!!
Many congratulations, Kenny! One of your old primary school teachers, known well to me (you know who I mean!), will be smiling down proudly on you and, no doubt, claiming much credit!
Congratulations!
Well deserved too, I should add.
Thank you, LS!
Well done Kenny. Thoroughly deserved.
Cheers, Michael, that's very kind of you.
A great First! Hearty congrats: well-deserved
Thanks, David. Very pleased.
Glad to see award outside the SDNS mafia. We put up Darren McGarvey for an award a few years back for his cols on Sceptical Scot that formed a basis for Poverty Safari. Zero response but he won the Orwell Prize a year later with same/similar material…
Darren should have won a whole clutch of awards at that time but was blocked, sometimes blatantly, by folk within the literary establishment.
Congratulations, greatly deserved
Thank you, Roger! Most kind.
Brilliant news. Really well done and thoroughly deserved
That is very kind of you to say, Stuart.
Congratulations Kenny.
Thanks John!
Many congratulations Kenny!
Cheers, Charlie!
Congratulations, Kenny! Well deserved.
Cheers, Stuart, you're a gent.
Many congratulations! A real and important first!
Thank you, Fiona!
Congratulations!
Thank you, Juliet!
Very many congratulations, Kenny. A well-deserved award.
Many Kenny congratulations Kenny. I am delighted for you. Hope your Substack goes from strength to strength.
Thank you, Marian!
Excellent news - many congratulations Kenny.
Cheers, Donald, much appreciated.
Very well done, Kenny! Ruth
Thank you, Ruth. Very kind of you.
Well done Kenny. A wee bit of journalistic history being made. Oh and my sub is well worth the money to keep you employed. Hopefully this award doesn’t mean your rates are increasing!!
Cheers, David. Dinnae gie me ideas!
Many congratulations, Kenny! One of your old primary school teachers, known well to me (you know who I mean!), will be smiling down proudly on you and, no doubt, claiming much credit!
Ah, thanks Gerry, I owe Maisie everything.
Close! It’s Rachel, but Maisie was my aunt.
Damn! Sorry! So many McLaughlins! Your mum was a marvellous teacher. To use a modern term, she made me feel “seen”.