In the new issue of Holyrood magazine editor Mandy Rhodes interviews Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy on why he thinks PM Gordon Brown is “rubbish” on tape and TV and why the SNP is irrelevant to Labour in the oncoming general election battle.

 

Deputy editor Will Peakin reports back from a recent trip to Gaza and takes a look at the situation one year on from Israel’s armed assault.  

 

In this fortnight’s Insight, Katie Mackintosh takes an in depth look at the way ahead for general practice while Rory Cahill’s Focus examines the 2020 climate change targets. We also have interviews with Labour’s new shadow Community Safety Minister James Kelly and their new local government spokesperson Michael McMahon.

 

Meanwhile, regular columnist and former First Minister Henry McLeish calls for a Number 10-style policy unit to be set up at Bute House, while Jim Sillars says Tony Blair should be tried for the “aggressive” war in Iraq.