Career
After graduating from university, Hamilton was admitted to the bar and became a practising lawyer.
He joined the Labour Party for a short while, but has spent most of his life in active politics as a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP). He was SNP candidate for the Strathclyde East seat at the 1994 election to the European Parliament, as well as a candidate for the SNP in the Greenock and Inverclyde seat at the 1999 election to the Scottish Parliament.
He was Rector of the University of Aberdeen from 1994–1996 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) in his final year. He was also chosen by the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association as their candidate for the Glasgow University Rectorial election in 1999 in which he came second to the actor, Ross Kemp.
Hamilton has written two autobiographical works, that are also in part polemical, A Touch of Treason (1990) and A Touch More Treason (1994). He has launched a blog, where he posts commentary on Scottish social and political life.
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