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Holyrood Magazine
Our aim is to report on the business of Parliament and the Government,
to stimulate debate within both institutions and to add to Scotland's
rich democratic culture.
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| Editor's Note | Transparently wrong
As the Labour Party north and south of the border implodes during a month of extraordinary events that has seen the Prime Minister reduced to a trembling wreck of a man, his loyal lieutenant in Scotland, Wendy Alexander, decides to bounce battered women around the Chamber during a gobsmacking exchange with the First Minister who had the cheek, while accepting her statement about the hardship suffered by victims of domestic violence, to congratulate her on dominating the newspaper headlines with various lurid tales about her secret financial donors. Alexander, despite all her supposed cleverness, rose to the bait and instead of making Salmond look a boorish fool for attempting to divert attention away from the plight of abused women by taking her to task over claims of financial impropriety, carried on the fight and even got her facts wrong. It made her look ridiculous. When one of her own handpicked frontbench team, Charles Gordon, resigned to the backbenches over his part in the donations affair, she looked even more so. Does the current Labour leadership have a future? There may ...
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180 - 3 December 2007
Justice in the spotlight: Interview with Kenny MacAskill, Cabinet Secretary for Justice
Focus: Calculating the value of universities
Insight: A new homelessness crisis looms
National Conversation: Bob Brannan on pride in being British
Plus: 30-page report on the environment
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Ordinary Jock
Mandy Rhodes interviews Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill about crime, punishment and black dugs
There must be something in the water of Linlithgow Loch that creates a political breeding ground. Tam Dalyell, Alex Salmond and Kenny MacAskill can all claim to be ‘Black Bitches’ because as natives of Lithgae, they are bestowed with that dubiously non-PC sounding title in honour of a black dog who swam repeatedly across the loch to carry food to its master who had been chained to...
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Rachel Hamada looks at what a virtual funding freeze will mean for Scottish universities
If the last few weeks’ feuding over the fate of Scotland’s university funding has revealed anything, it is that higher education is not much of a populist issue. This in itself says something about the lack of connection that many of the Scottish public feel for the institutions that have done so much to shape Scotland’s historical and economic development. Yet Scotland is so used to losing at everyth...
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 | Branding Scotland
Businessman, Bob Brannan, questions whether Scotland is being sold down the river
At a time when the Scottish economy faces the twin threat of a potentially deep recession along with intense competition from emerging nations and whilst the land that we inhabit is under siege from global terrorism and damage to our ecosystem from the excessive use of fossil fuels, not forgetting to mention that we are among the unhealthiest peoples in the civilised world, our politicians are consumed by a ...
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