|
|
Home  Holyrood magazine
|
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.
We will be publishing selected articles from each magazine online in our new online format, see below for the current issue. Allternatively you can subscribe here to our full print version or sign up here for premium content and receive access to the electronic version of the magazine online.
Read more...
|
| Editor's note | Bread and butter issue
In March 1999 Tony Blair committed his government to eradicating child poverty by 2020. Wendy Alexander banged on the same drum and published her own initiative for Scotland with a pledge to stamp out the scourge in a generation. As grand political ambitions go, they didn’t come much bigger than this and for a relatively new Labour Government, it was simply an expression of ambitions embedded in the party’s founding principles. But ten years on, those targets have, so far, fallen well short an...
Read More >> |
|
|
189 - 21 April 2008
|
|
| Interview |
 | Change is what he does
Mandy Rhodes interviews Stephen Purcell, leader of Glasgow City Council and arguably, one of Labour's most powerful politicians in Scotland...
A very obviously new copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s seminal novel, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference is sitting on a chair at the door into Stephen Purcell’s grand office in the City Chambers. I raise my eyes skyward; firstly he comes out as the first gay leader of Scotland’s most macho stomping ground and then he goes...
Read More >> |
| |
|
|
| Insight |
The man behind the vision
Kerry Lorimer examines an American performance measurement model the SNP intends to adopt...
Bill Leighty is an evangelist. In the last week, he’s preached to close on a thousand of the most influential people in Scotland: national and local leaders, civil servants, chief executives, finance people. No one knows yet how many converts he’s won, but anecdotal evidence suggests the gospel is catching on fast.
“I’m a believer in what I do,” he says. “I’ve been working hard on it for six ye...
Read More >> |  |
| |
|
|
| Focus |
 | Power to change
A non-nuclear energy policy is not a gamble - it's a moral obligation, Scotland's Energy Minister tells William Peakin
It appears to be the Scottish Government’s biggest gamble. Not that the SNP regards as a gamble the idea of a nuclear-free Scotland and “the potential to generate as much as … ten times our peak electricity demand [from renewables],” as Alex Salmond told an audience at the National Geographic Society in Washington earlier this month. From its point of view, it wo...
Read More >> |
| |
|
|
|
|
