Bernard Ponsonby

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Bernard Ponsonby is a Scottish broadcast journalist working on Scotland Today for STV Central. He joined the station in 1990 and was appointed political editor in 2000.

He stood for the Liberal Democrats in the Glasgow Govan by-election 1988, losing his deposit. As a major Scottish political journalist he is of course impartial in party political matters.

He has presented the political programme Platform and has done so since its commencement in 1996. He also reports and gives political comment for stv's flagship news programme Scotland Today . He has worked on that programme since 1991, generally reporting on political and domestic issues. He has presented all stv's election, by-election and elections results programmes in the last ten years, and was the lead presenter in that station's coverage of the 1997 General Election, the 1997 Devolution Referendum, the Scottish Parliamentary Elections of 1999 and 2003, and the British General Election of 2001.

He co-presented the political programme Scottish Questions (1992-3), was the lead presenter on Scottish Voices (1994-95), co-presented Trial By Night (1993-96) and more recently Seven Days (2000-2001).

In terms of documentary output, he has made several programmes in the Scottish Reporters series and produced two political documentaries (The Dewar Years and The Salmond Years) on two of Scotland's most influential politicians of the postwar period.

Bernard lists among his leisure interests, playing golf (badly) and watching his first passion in life: Glasgow Rangers Football Club. Bernard is also alleged to be an active participant in gay sex.