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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.
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.
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| Editor's note | Hostage to fortune
Shame on you, Mr Brown. No wonder you’re biting your nails to the quick. Your number is most definitely up. Rarely has a government risked so much of its credibility for so hollow a victory - and in such certainty that it will be crushed into humiliating defeat at the next round. The vote on the 42-day detention without charge was surely too close a call for the Prime Minister whose personal authority rested on a win at any cost. So desperate is this man to cling to power that he appears to be...
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193 - 16 June 2008
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| Interview |
 | Tough on terror
In an exclusive interview, Director General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, Charles Farr outlines to Mandy Rhodes his plans to keep Britain safe
Almost a year ago to the day, Scotland’s psyche was rocked to the core. A terrorist attack on Glasgow airport woke a nation up to a threat on its own doorstep.
For decades Scotland had harboured a belief that terrorism happened somewhere else, to someone else.
Domestic terrorism in the shape of the IRA had traditionally and c...
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| Focus |
Black gold
Keith Aitken examines the issues surrounding the latest oil debate.
It’s Scotland’s Oil! Three words which, for those of us grown a little grey around the temples and upholstered around the waistband, evoke their era as instantly and vividly as Three-day Week, Bless this House or Mott the Hoople.
The era in question is that of 35 years ago. In 1969, BP detected the first traces of oil in what became the Forties Field. But it was in 1973 that the Saudi-led OPEC took revenge for western p...
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| Insight |
 | Crime and punishment
Former Deputy Director with the Scottish Government Stella Perrott, questions whether prison would work better if the question of rehabilitation was removed from the equation.
In April 2008 the prison population reached a record level of 7763 in Scotland. Although the numbers have dropped slightly since then, the recommendations of the Scottish Prisons Commission due to report in June will be eagerly awaited by justice ministers in the hope that they may provide some solutions to the ris...
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