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Jackie Kemp

About Jackie Kemp

Jackie Kemp is a journalist and commentator based in Scotland. She has a Huffington Post blog and a website www.jackiekemp.scot. Follow her on Twitter @jackiekemp. In 2012, she created an anthology of her father Arnold Kemp's journalism Confusion to Our Enemies: Selected Journalism of Arnold Kemp 1939-2001 (NWP).

A letter on Ukraine from Berlin Hbf

March 6, 2022 by Jackie Kemp 1 Comment

‘The current conflict seems one from an anachronous, imperial past. There is little to separate a Ukrainian and a Russian – this is not an ethnic conflict but one over territory.’

From Big Oil to Big Wind

January 30, 2022 by Jackie Kemp 1 Comment

“Challenges lie ahead. But one major difference between Big Oil and Big Wind is that the latter has the potential to help rescue the planet from the climate emergency.”

A hundred years of selling

December 14, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

“The Barras is a historic spot. But could it benefit, if not from gentrifiction, from some fresh blood – perhaps the kind of vintage clothing and upcycling operation which seems to bring the young and the tourists to Brick Lane or Portobello Road in London?”

From poor house to empty hotel

November 27, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

“Most people in the sector I speak to agree – this system wasn’t broken before Brexit. Now it is. But who will answer the pleas of Highland hospitality business owners? They are desperate for the mitigation of seasonal visas. But the Scottish Government has no control over immigration, just as it had no say over Brexit itself.”

COP26 and Africa’s development needs

November 17, 2021 by Jackie Kemp 1 Comment

“Are we in the developed world prepared to accept that it would be fair for Africa’s C02 emissions to rise even as ours fall? Or are we prepared to fund a transfer of resources to enable solar, tidal, wind and so on, to supply their needs? At the end of COP26, more money was promised – but it fell far short of what African negotiators wanted.”

Garb-Age in the Highlands

November 15, 2021 by Jackie Kemp 1 Comment

“They filled a boat with 15 bags of plastic waste. By weight, 90% of the waste was from the area’s salmon farms, which regularly discard long black snakes of feeding tubes into the sea.”

Regenerative farming could cut methane emissions

November 3, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

Food production will have to change to deliver the methane emissions reductions agreed at COP26. How will this work?  Last week, I interviewed a “regenerative farmer” in Fife who may have some answers. Claire Pollock has a mixed farm of animals and arable – she doesn’t plough but sows cereal straight onto harvest stubble. Cows […]

Saltire in the sky

May 6, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

‘It is perhaps under-recognised by many in the independence camp just how much support there was for the Union in 1707 among middle-class Scots. That support was based on a hunger for opportunity. But Brexit has reversed that – it means a big reduction in the degree of opportunity that Union with the rest of the UK once offered.’

Highland homes for whom?

April 30, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

This tiny village (Diabaig), nestled at the foot of the Torridon mountains in Wester Ross, makes an interesting case study for the second homes issue that concerns many voters in the Highlands in the run-up to May 6. Should we regulate 2nd homes ownership?

Confiné en France

November 14, 2020 by Jackie Kemp 2 Comments

‘Working and living here has always been a dream of mine – but my French was never good enough to get a job. So, it seems ironic that, just as this has become a reality because of completely remote working, the possibility is being taken away.’

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