The presenter of chart-topping The News Agents podcast Jon Sopel will appear at Aye Write to discuss his new book Strangeland.

The book is his personal exploration of post-Brexit Britain and what it now means to British and he’ll appear at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow on Saturday, October 5 for the event between 6.30pm and 7.30pm.

The best-selling author and political insider will be in conversation with The Herald editor Catherine Salmond to speak about the book. 

Mr Sopel moved back to the UK in 2022 after eight years in the US and during that time, Britain had left the European Union after the Brexit vote and he found the country very different to the one he had moved away from.

In Strangeland, he examines post-Brexit Britain with analysis of the politics, policy and people that have shaped and shaken the country.

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Tickets for the event will cost £13.44 and is one of a number of events to take place during the Aye Write festival as part of their Autumn programme.

A week later, on Satuday October 15, Sir Ian Rankin will also be interviewed at the Old Fruitmarket about his latest John Rebus thriller Midnight and Blue.

In August, Alastair Campbell and Tom Baldwin also appeared at another Aye Write event that was hosted by the Herald’s editor and discussed Keir Starmer and the Labour Party.

Mr Campbell, the former strategist and spokesperson for Tony Blair, admitted his concerns about the current Prime Minister’s plans to tell the public that things were going to get worse.

Speaking on stage, he said: “I think people get very negative, much more quickly than they used to.

“And I think if you're not giving people a sense of the journey that they're on, I think it becomes hard to take people with you through very difficult times.

“I slightly had a bit of twitch over the weekend with the briefing of this speech, things can only get worse before they get better.

“You've got to give people that sense of this is where we're going. I don't think we can ever just be a kind of managerial, technocratic, as the politicians who've done that recently intend not to last very long.”