Kenneth Roy

Kenneth Roy was born and brought up in Falkirk, Scotland. After ten years working as an anchorman in BBC TV News and Current Affairs he became a critic and columnist in the print media, notably Scotland on Sunday and the Observer. He founded the Institute of Contemporary Scotland in 2000; is editor and columnist of online campaigning journal the Scottish Review; and is chair of the Young Scotland Programme, which encourages debate and exchange of ideas among young adults in Scotland. He is the author of several books, including Travels in a Small Country, The Closing Headlines and Both Sides of the Border. The first volume of his history of modern Scotland, The Invisible Spirit: A Life of Post-War Scotland 1945–75, came out in 2013.