Education
He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Fettes College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read modern history.
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His first book, Dear Country: A Quest for England, was published in 1991. On leaving Oxford in 1969 he went to Newcastle upon Tyne, where he trained as a journalist. He then worked on The Scotsman in Edinburgh from 1970 till 1981.
In 1973 he was the paper"s first full-time education correspondent and in 1977 he became The Scotsman"s features and literary editors
In 1981 he moved to Glasgow to be sports and leisure editor on the short-lived Sunday Standard. In 1982 he switched to The Herald as an executive editors
He was appointed deputy editor in 1984. In 1997 he was appointed editor, a position he held through 2000.
From 1999 to 2001 he chaired the Scottish Editors" Committee.
To help with the research he was given a visiting fellowship by the Faculty of Divinity, New College, Edinburgh. The resultant book, Outside Verdict: An Old Church in the New Scotland was published by Saint Andrew Press
Other books include: Dear Country: A Quest for England (Mainstream Publishing, 1991). The Final Whistle: Scottish Football - The Best and Worst of Times (Birlinn Limited, 2005).
Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press (Saint Andrew Press in association with the British Broadcasting Corporation, 2006) and Reformation: The Dangerous Birth of the Modern World (Saint Andrew Press, 2009).
