Alf Young

Alf Young is one of Scotland's most experienced business and economics journalists, with a career spanning more than four decades. He served 22 years at the Herald in various executive roles including deputy editor, before writing a weekly business column for The Sunday Times. A visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and a member of the group that devised the financial arrangements for Scottish devolution, he contributed authoritative economic commentary to the Scottish Review.

20 articles

Articles by Alf Young

Politics

Scottish Review : Alf Young

In his Budget speech George Osborne made a claim for much-needed transparency in spelling out the grim options that lay ahead. ‘I am not going to hide hard choices from…

3 Nov 2011
Culture

Scottish Review : Alf Young

Alf Young Michael Get the Scottish Review in your inbox free of charge We need your help to maintain our inquiring journalism. Become a Friend of SR [click here] The…

2 Nov 2011
Politics

John Cameron It’s a Gas

John Cameron It’s a gas The football manager who had ‘no comment’ to make – even about the weather Joyce Gunn Cairns A portrait of A L Kennedy The survivors…

24 May 2011
News

It Used to Be a Cult

It used to be a cult. But now it’s a full- blown religion The Cafe 2 Colin Stewart and John Cameron The Cafe I can tell you why there is…

10 Apr 2011
News

World commentary Alan Fisher Wrong moves in…

World commentary Alan Fisher Wrong moves in Afghanistan Norman Fenton The frog and the scorpion Thinkpiece Jill Stephenson The myth about university education Life of George George Chalmers Paris daze…

13 Mar 2011
Politics

The Unkindest Cut of All

Economy The unkindest cut of all Alf Young Greenock Photograph by Islay McLeod For nearly five years I’ve been trying to put something back into the communities of Inverclyde where…

28 Jan 2011

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