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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 | Oil on troubled waters
If it is a mark of mature political leadership when you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then the spat at First Minister’s Questions two weeks ago was Alex Salmond’s most public coming of age. With emergency measures in place to deal with a threatened fuel shortage, the First Minister delivered a measured but altogether grandstanding statement which smacked of a man in control. He acknowledged the pivotal role of the UK Government, refused to be dr...
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190 - 5 May 2008
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| Interview |
 | Coming of age
Mandy Rhodes interviews First Minister, Alex Salmond, as he celebrates a year of leading the SNP Government
Alex Salmond’s first year as leader of an historic SNP Government at Holyrood began and ended with a national emergency.
This latest crisis at Grangemouth has ironically seen him thrown into bed with the UK Government over oil, of all things and emerge unruffled and characteristically, satisfied with his own performance.
So what has happened during the last year for Salmond to go...
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| Insight |
 | One year on
Fraser Nelson says it could be England, not Scotland that makes the final cut
Slip some truth serum into Alex Salmond’s whisky and he may admit that the five people who matter the most to his independence campaign are English. There is Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail. Then David Cameron, now the bookies’ favourite to become the next Prime Minister, George Osborne, his Shadow Chancellor – who is looking carefully at fiscal autonomy and David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, who is ac...
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| Focus |
 | Finding security
Following lurid headlines about rioting, absconsions and violence in one of Scotland’s seven secure care homes, Rory Cahill is given exclusive access to one of the units that houses some of Scotland’s most troubled young people
Tamara was eight years old when her father took her to Amsterdam’s red-light district. Officially, he abandoned her, but in reality, he almost certainly sold her to a pimp. Nobody knows exactly what happened to Tamara over the next six years but it woul...
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