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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 | Shooting the messenger
Labour has been moaning on for weeks that it’s not getting the media coverage it deserves. There have been whispers of a conspiracy plotted by a coven of journalists waiting to whip off their smiley masks and reveal their real SNP credentials. Some have been taken to the side by Labour MSPs and offered heartfelt but only too obviously, collectively rehearsed support for what was, until the end of last week their embattled leader, Wendy Alexander. Others, like this particular organ, have been subject to a tirade of accusations of political bias from parliamentarians and their researchers and questioned on why we would be running a series of interviews on SNP Cabinet Secretaries and key play...
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184 - 11th February 2008
Interview: Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
Insight: Health boards
Focus: Consumer bodies
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| Insight |
Finding their voice
The public has a second chance to have a more direct say in healthcare provision, reports Katie Mackintosh
“Greater public and patient involvement in the planning and delivery of local NHS services in Scotland.” On the face of it, this is a goal that few would argue against. Nor would most dispute that attempting to extend the arms of democracy and increase public confidence in statutory bodies is sound in principle. However, in the case of the Local Healthcare Bill consultation, it is n...
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| Focus |
 | Are you being served
Kerry Lorimer navigates through the maze of organisations out there to help
Today’s consumer is more demanding, better informed, and far less reticent about having a gripe than ever before. But the chances are, we are also more baffled, not least because of the proliferation of bodies that exist to help us out – if only we knew who they were.
Google ‘consumer advice Scotland’ and up pops a dazzling array of
organisations: Scottish Consumer Council, Consumer Direct, Citizens
Advice Scot...
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 | Learning curve
In the last of her series of interviews with the new SNP Cabinet Secretaries, Mandy Rhodes interviews Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop
If the difficulties in trying to arrange a date to interview Fiona Hyslop are indicative of her workload then this woman needs a break. Arranged dates came and went as university funding, class sizes, school funding, religious education and charitable status of independent schools, among others all hit the headlines and became yesterday’s chip paper. Event...
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| National Conversation |
Changing from the inside
Piper Lindsay Davidson wonders whether Scotland is in need of the assistance of a self-help guru when it comes to independence
Anyone who has read Stephen Covey’s The seven habits of highly effective people will be familiar with his diagram illustrating these habits and how they relate to each other. Right or wrong, his suggestions may have something to offer even an entire nation when considering the issue of independence.
As Covey continually emphasises, change must happen from the ins...
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