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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 | In the rough
Scotland has been well and truly trumped; shown up for what it can be at its parochial worst. Revealed as a petty little country that says it welcomes inward investment but then rejects it, simply because it doesn’t like the cut of someone’s jib. Donald Trump may not be everyone’s cup of tea. He may be a little crass and he may ride roughshod over some people, like the salty old fisherman Michael Forbes who refused to sell his family farm to trump and was then hailed by the media as a local hero for knocking the developer’s plan to build a $2 billion golf resort off kilter. But this is not a scene from some sepia-coloured film about quaint old Scotchland. this is not about poor old, socialist Scotland standing up to the mighty force of corporate America. this is about global credibility and it is about economic reality. Yes, it’s hard being genuinely Scottish and having to kowtow to some rich American dude that uses his Scottish ancestry to give him some credibility in a country that...
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181 - 17 December 2007
Interview: Linda Fabiani, Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture
Focus: Alcohol
Insight: Violence against women
National Conversation: Angie Zelter
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| Interview |
 | Time for reflection
Mandy Rhodes interviews Linda Fabiani, Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture
What makes us who we are?
It’s a question that forensic psychologists pick over as they dissect every facet of a troubled soul attempting to work out what act, what moment, what external force influenced a particular change in a person’s character.
On the face of it, Linda Fabiani, list SNP MSP for Central Scotland, is a straightforward sort of woman. The ever smiling, salt of the earth kind who...
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| Focus |
 | Drinking ourselves to death
Rory Cahill and Katie Mackintosh look at what the Scottish Government can do to reverse a culture of alcohol abuse
All of us will attend at least one Christmas party in the coming fortnight and nearly all of us will drink alcohol while we are there. And more than a few of us will drink more than we should. We might not end up vomiting in the street, or in the police cells after getting into a drunken fight. But most of us will end up with a throbbing hangover that leaves us barely able to f...
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| The national conversation |
 | Big debate
Angie Zelter says Scotland needs to engage the rest of the world in its plans for the future
Scotland has a chance, through this national conversation, to try to define itself in a new way, not to be trapped in the mistakes and tragedies of the past. and it needs to extend this conversation into the other parts of the UK and to other parts of the planet. The global community needs to move together. Scotland cannot fulfil its potential alone. But, however difficult, I believe that there is...
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