Author: Isobel Farrow

Isobel Farrow came to current affairs writing through think tank research. She studied politics at a Scottish university, spent four years at a Westminster policy institute producing briefings on devolution and constitutional reform, and did a stint in a minister's private office before deciding she preferred asking questions to drafting answers. She writes about elections, legislation, devolution, and the mechanics of how government actually works when the cameras leave. She has read enough statutory instruments to know that the boring ones matter most. Isobel lives in Edinburgh. She thinks most political commentary mistakes volume for insight, and that the phrase 'sources close to' does more heavy lifting than any backbencher.