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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 | Vision on
As the Labour Party in Scotland gathers in Aviemore this weekend, it would do well to reflect on why it is not in power north of the border. It’s not enough to say that the electorate simply wanted a change and therefore they got it. If they had simply wanted a change, they could have voted the Tories or the Lib Dems or even the Greens in. They wanted change for specific reasons; war in Iraq, disillusion with New Labour, irritation with Blair, an irrational annoyance with England and a sneakin...
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187 - 24th March 2008
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| Interview |
Making the connections
Mandy Rhodes interviews Wendy Alexander as she prepares for her first Scottish Labour Party conference as leader under the banner of Reform, Renew and Reconnect
You know you’re in trouble when a politician tells you they’ve been speaking to ‘normal people’ about ‘real issues’ on the bus. It’s akin to Baroness Jay of Paddington saying she understood the needs of rural communities because she owned a weekend cottage in Buckinghamshire. Let’s face it, only weird people and country folk talk...
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Seeds of change
Rachel Hamada finds out why the state needs to support children from the moment they are conceived
Easter in Muirhouse. The golden sun shines down the avenues of dilapidated Edinburgh council housing. With daffodils and crocuses peppering the green grass of Pennywell Road, everything suddenly looks much more beautiful and hopeful than it might have done even weeks ago. Walk into the local primary school and meet some of the local five-year-olds – Amy, Ethan, Joanne and Martine.
They ar...
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 | Joining up Scotland
Richard Johnstone examines the nightmare of Scotland’s transport network
The M74 extension, approved by the Scottish Government in February, neatly illustrates the problems with the Scottish transport system.
First proposed as a ring road in 1945, the completion of the road by 2011 encapsulates the difficulties in getting transport projects off the ground.
It is indicative of what Tavish Scott, the former transport minister, says was the difficulty with pre-devolution transport planni...
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