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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 | Selling Scotland Short
It’s the stupid, stupid, economy, stupid…Bad timing for Iain Gray; wiped off the front pages by an imploding economy yet this was the week, of all weeks, that in accepting the mantle of leadership in Scotland he decides to quote Thomas Carlyle and take a swipe at Alex Salmond for studying that ‘dismal science’ of economics. As share prices collapse, banks merge, depression looms and government looks increasingly impotent at understanding why this is happening and what can be done about it, who...
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196 - 22 September 2008
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| Interview |
 | Gray Matter
Mandy Rhodes interviews Iain Gray, the new leader of the Scottish Labour MSPs
1980s Wester Hailes was a dismal example of a post-1960s stab at utopia which spectacularly failed. Houses designed for the temperate climate of North Africa and plopped down in an isolated patch of land to the south-west of Edinburgh, cut off from transport, shopping and the rest of city life was a fairly obvious recipe for disaster, creating a disparate population of Edinburgh which soon became cast adrift fro...
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| Focus |
A Curriculum for Excellence
Cera Murtagh examines what the most significant educational reform for a generation means for Scotland
It’s been billed as the most radical reform of the Scottish education system for a generation. After a process that has so far taken four years and spanned two political administrations, the brand spanking new Curriculum for Excellence should be finally set for take off. During the lead-in time, we have become accustomed to hearing its merits espoused by politicians and by now expectatio...
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| Insight |
 | Under Scrutiny
Kerry Lorimer examines the impact a year on from the publications of the Crerar Review
The Crerar Review heralded nothing less than a revolution for Scotland’s public sector. No more death by red tape. Public bodies freed to get on with the job without infestations of bureaucratic meddlers. No more exotically named quangos toiling away in brass-plaque offices in Edinburgh, churning out reports that no one reads.
In their place would be a sleek, streamlined system of external
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