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

Nemesis and After

Nemesis and after Alf Young Here are three things that happened in the United States in the past 48 hours. As predicted, President Obama was humbled in the mid-term elections,…

6 Nov 2010
News

Islay McLeod Launches an SR Competition

Islay McLeod launches an SR competition Also on this page: Rear Window James Shaw Grant on second sight Does anyone else find celebrity chefs mildly annoying? They appear omnipresent and omniscient on…

25 Sep 2010
Politics

The Final Curtain?

The final curtain? Kenneth Roy on the inexcusable performance of Creative Scotland Also on this page: The Cafe Readers’ views Going with the flow Alf Young on how best to…

11 Sep 2010
Politics

Scottish Review : Alf Young

The summing-up Alf Young The votes are almost all counted. The television exit poll, its findings widely derided in the early hours of this morning, was bang on the money….

10 May 2010
Politics

Scottish Review : Alf Young

Britain is guilty of a shameful attack on the free exchange of ideas Alf Young Alf Young is an award-winning Scottish journalist who writes regularly for the Scottish Review Get…

3 May 2010
Culture

Scottish Review : Alf Young

Alf Young We are creating a desert Get the Scottish Review in your inbox free of charge Check recent articles in the SR library [click here] 28.01.10 Issue no 200…

28 Jan 2010

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