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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 | Tagging along
In terms of justice, things can always get worse. The mid to late 1980s witnessed a near collapse into anarchy for the penal system, a period when prison roofs burned, hostages were taken, prisoners covered themselves in excrement and the SAS flew into a field near Peterhead in unmarked black helicopters to storm the occupied establishment. It wasn’t too far from the truth to say that the lunatics had taken over the asylum. The reasons for the prison riots were complex and many changes in penal thought and practice resulted but one factor stood out – overcrowding. In those dark days of priso...
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186 - 10th March 2008
Interview: John McFall MP, chair of the Treasury Select Commitee
Focus: Apprentices
Insight: Politics and sport
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Mandy Rhodes interviews Labour MP for West Dumbartonshire John McFall about the power of money
Ironically, it is the Thatcher Room of the House of Commons which is more often than not the place where two political worlds collide; where the rich/poor divide dissolves into an analysis of greed and where John McFall, an Old Labour warhorse and chair of the powerful Treasury Select Committee gets to interrogate the arch arbiters of capitalism. How sweet…
An appearance before the committee ha...
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Sporting chance
Sport's journalist Neil Drysdale examines the relationship between sport and politics
Gordon Strachan, the Celtic manager, is a master of the trenchant soundbite. Shortly before he accepted the Parkhead job, the former Scotland internationalist was asked for a summation of his country’s abilities in team pursuits. “The truth is that we are not very good at them. Cricket has always been rotten, rugby’s not very good, football’s not very good, anything healthy, we don’t seem to be good ...
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Rachel Hamada looks at the case for a massive overhaul of apprenticeships in Scotland
Thinking big isn’t always a Scottish characteristic. But it doesn’t get much bigger than the contract that looks set to be landed at the Rosyth dockyards, and the scale of the work that is going to be carried out there.
That job is to do the final assembly and fit the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales – the largest ships that will ever have been built for the Royal Navy. Gigantic aircraft car...
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