Holyrood 517 / 13 Nov 2023

Having the last laugh: ‘The SNP won’t talk about independence and yet they think I’m the clown’
Exclusive interview with Angus Brendan MacNeil

3 Editor’s note: Lady Dorrian may have split the baby and in turn failed to fully please either side of this ferociously polarised debate
5 Roundup: Pictures and numbers from the past two weeks
6 Talking Point: The government has new fireworks laws so why doesn’t it use them?
8 In Context: The Circular Ecconomy Bill
9 GREEN PAGES: Heavy Weather - The Scottish Government is struggling to take the difficult decisions needed to achieve its climate change targets
12 GREEN PAGES: Offshore Wind - Scotland was meant to be the Saudi Arabia of renewables, but has this ambition been blown off course?
16 GREEN PAGES: Angus Brendan MacNeil - Now sitting as an independent, the former SNP MP says the party “has become very unthinking”
24 GREEN PAGES: Storms Ahead - The east of Scotland is engaged in an expensive clear up
after devasting flooding
27 GREEN PAGES: Driverless Buses - Scotland leads the way in creating transport of the future
31 Drugs: Safe-Consumption Rooms - With a Scottish pilot in the works, what can Glasgow learn from Copenhagen?
34 Political Interview: Paul O’Kane - Scottish Labour’s rising star could have been a priest.
How did he get from there to Holyrood?
40 Getting to know... Graham Simpson, Tory MSP for Central Scotland
42 Event spotlight: The Scottish Public Service Awards
46 Comment: A council tax freeze is anything but progressive, writes Professor James Mitchell
47 Local politics: Dundee councillor Heather Anderson puts her stamp on Coldside
48 Diary: Things turn nasty for the original Wee Dafty
49 Political spin: Kenneth Gibson on his love for Todd Rundgren
50 Last Word: Sketch - Shona Robison WhatsApps her latte order

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