Journalism and Politics - Alan Cochrane

Wed, Mar 8th 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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From Dundee to Westminster and many places in between!

Many thanks to BiteBack Publishing https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/authors/alan-cochrane for Alan’s biography - much better than I could have written and more reliable than wikipedia (hopefully!)

“Alan Cochrane is Scottish editor and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was born in Dundee and began work as a journalist with the DC Thomson newspaper group.
In London he covered politics for, variously, the Daily Express, the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday – where he was political editor and assistant editor under Stewart Steven – and the Sunday Express. He returned to Scotland in 1994 as editor of the Scottish Daily Express and was subsequently deputy editor of Scotland on Sunday. He covered the years leading up to the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament for The Scotsman and, latterly, the Daily Telegraph, for which he ran the coverage of the independence referendum. He has four children and lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two youngest daughters.”
Alan entertained the members with his thoughts and reminisences from what has been a colourful and interesting career. He told us stories, some difficult to reproduce here for fear of accusations we, as a Rotary club, might not like to have to address. Stories of pigeons and parliamentarians (of various stature), of having a boss like Andrew Neil and of being banned from news rooms by ‘assertive’ politicians – some still thriving today! He regaled us with insights from working ‘alongside’ Donald Dewar and David Cameron, Neil Kinnock and Alistair Darling – a very mixed past – and he gave us his perspective on the political future we might expect.  A fascinating insight told in both an amusing and thoughtful way and he only once mentioned his book “Alex Salmond – My part in his downfall” – interesting indeed











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