Pat Kane

Patrick Mark "Pat" Kane (born 10 March 1964) is a Scottish musician, journalist, political activist and one half of the pop duo Hue and Cry with his younger brother Greg.

Kane is a writer on political and cultural topics, and was an activist for Scottish self-government in the 1980s and 1990s. He helped found the organisation "Artists for an Independent Scotland".

During the 1990s, he began working as an arts journalist, 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".

Kane was formerly married to Joan McAlpine, an SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region.