A star columnist for 35 years, he won the Orwell prize for political journalism
The death of Ian Bell at the age of 59 has deprived Scotland and the UK of one of their finest journalists and literary critics. He died at his home in the Scottish Borders shortly after becoming ill.
In a career that spanned more than 35 years, he was a star columnist for the Glasgow Herald, the Scotsman, the Sunday Herald, the Daily Record and Scotland on Sunday.
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