Pat Kane

Pat Kane is a musician, journalist, political activist and one half of the pop duo Hue and Cry with his younger brother Greg. He writes on political and cultural topics, and was an activist for Scottish self-government in the 1980s and 1990s. He helped found the organization Artists for an Independent Scotland. In 1990, he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow for three years (defeating veteran Labour MP Tony Benn). He graduated from the university in 1985, earning an MA in English. Whilst Rector at Glasgow, Kane had a column at the Glasgow University Guardian.

During the 1990s, Pat began working as an arts journalist, presenting several live discussion shows for Channel 4 and BBC2, and came third in the Sony Awards with the BBC Radio Scotland series Kane Over America. In 1999, Kane was one of the founding editors of the Sunday Herald newspaper. He occasionally writes for The Guardian.^[4] He is a regular columnist for the sister paper to the Sunday Herald, The National.

In 2004, Kane published The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living. The author description says he "runs seminars, talks and runs a website reaching out to people living the Play Ethic".