Douglas Beattie

DOUGLAS BEATTIE grew up in Dumfriesshire, studied politics at Glasgow University and is an award-winning former BBC journalist, author and Labour insider. He has written for the New Statesman on politics and worked for Scottish Television, the Press Association and Reuters. Douglas has first-hand experience of elections having stood for Parliament in the 2017 General Election and also been a Labour councillor. He now lives in London and works as a trade union media and political director. He is fascinated by tribal divisions and one of his previous book is an acclaimed history of British football derbies, The Rivals Game, Inside the British Derby.