Jackie Kemp - freelance journalist and writer - Edinburgh, Scotland

Albie Sachs Interview

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Life sentences -  GUARDIAN SOCIETY 

The celebrated South African judge is still setting liberal precedents with a ruling that parents should not be sent to jail, because of their children's rights - which, he tells Jackie Kemp, has important lessons for the UK.

Albie Sachs, South African writer and judge. 

Albie Sachs: 'Judges are the storytellers of the 21st century'. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

 

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Football is generation game for Hibs Family

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Evening News October 4 20010. by Jackie Kemp.


THERE have been good times and bad over the years but, up or down, win or lose, there are few games that John Rudden has missed at Easter Road since he first walked onto the terraces holding his dad's hand on a Saturday afternoon in 1936.

Not many of the familiar faces he first saw at games are still there, but the 79-year-old lifelong Leith resident is now joined by a new crew of fellow season ticket holders - two of his grandsons and two great-grandsons.

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Asylum Seekers in Glasgow Face Eviction

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Asylum Seekers Akokpe Kangnisoukpe and his 3 year old daughter Rose

Akakpo Kangni-Soukpe and his three-year-old daughter Rose, from Togo, are among more than 1,000 asylum seekers in Glasgow being moved on. Photograph: Murdo Macleod.

A similar article appeared in the Guardian on November 24. All reference to the housing group 'Angel' was removed after a polite request for a comment was greeted with a letter from libel lawyers Carter Ruck.

“There is no way around the letter. I think about it all the time – it is the last thing I think about each evening and the first when I wake in the morning.”

 The letter said that Akakpo Kangni-Soukpe and his family must be ready to leave the home they have known for three years at any time - taking just two bags, and without knowing where they are going except that it will be “somewhere within the Scotland region”.

 “We do not want to go anywhere. We are enjoying Glasgow. Our neighbours have been so kind. Now we have to leave again – our home and the people we love and who love us.”


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Professor John Orr, teacher and writer

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Published Date: 29 October 2010
By JACKIE KEMP
Professor John Mackinney Orr, teacher and writer.

Born: 26 July, 1943, in Gillingham,  Kent.
Died: 8 September, 2010, in Dirleton, East Lothian, aged 67.
 
A thinker, a talker and an intellectual free spirit, as well as a teacher and a prolific writer, professor John Orr, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social and Political Studies at Edinburgh University, leaves many gaps with his sudden death at the age of 67.

One of those will be in the cafe of the Edinburgh Filmhouse where the internationally known film theorist often sat in lively discussion with students or fellow cineophiles, chewing the fat over what they had just seen. On 13 November, the Filmhouse is to show a tribute screening of one of his favourite films - Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light.


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New £5 million contracts for three public sector 'tsars'

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Millions of pounds per year is to be spent on new long-term contracts for three Scottish public sector ‘tsars’ despite deep spending cuts and criticism over some of their work.

By Simon Johnson and Jackie Kemp Daily Telegraph Feb 09 2011
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