Holyrood 422 / 8 April 2019
View e-Version
Interview: Scotland’s Mental Health Minister, Clare Haughey. Plus: MSPs on the abuse they receive, regional spotlight on the Highlands, and Scottish Parliament 20th Anniversary interview with former Labour MSP Malcolm Chisholm
3 Editor’s note
Brexit is taking a wrecking ball to the Tories and May’s move to bond with Corbyn – whether cynical or not – has just rubbed salt into very raw wounds
6 Roundup
Pictures and numbers from the past two weeks
7 Talking Point
Physical punishment impacts on mental and physical health
9 Digital Highlights
The best of Twitter and Holyrood’s online content
10 Political Spotlight
Brexit is like a TV series with an increasingly improbable plotline
12 Overview: Mental health
Human rights are at the centre of attempts to review mental health laws
16 Cover Story: Clare Haughey
The Minister for Mental Health on cultural change and her journey into politics
22 Focus: Suicide in the Highlands
People in remote places are further from support
24 Roundtable: MSPs at risk
Holyrood brings together five MSPs to talk about the mood surrounding politics
28 Regional Spotlight: Highlands
The latest in our series of features examining how devolution changed Scotland
33 Malcolm Chisholm
Interview with the former Leith MP and MSP
36 Getting to know you
Peter Chapman went to school on a bus
38 Comment
Laura Kelly on Brexit and the fragile peace in Northern Ireland
40 Diary
April Fools and a vegan sausage roll tree
41 Pets
Ged Killen’s Westie Molly comes on every holiday
42 Last Word
Sketch: Liam Kirkaldy on how UK politics got stuck in an endless loop