Holyrood 543 / 10 February 2025

DRILL BABY DRILL
Big orange balloon: How Trump’s hot air offers an opportunity for Scottish renewables

3 Editor’s note
My revulsion is for all those that perpetrate sexual atrocities against the most vulnerable in our society

5 Roundup
Pictures and numbers from the past two weeks

7 Talking Point
Assisted dying bill age raises the question of what we mean by ‘child’

8 In Context
(Prisoners) Early Release (Scotland) Bill

9 Spotlight: Bed Bound
The chronic problem of delayed discharges is constraining efforts across the NHS

12 Green Pages overview: Drill, Baby, Drill
With Donald Trump promising to up US oil production, are there opportunities for Scottish renewables?

15 Green Pages Interview: Professor Jim Skea
The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on why he doesn’t do despair

19 Green Pages: Biodiversity Crisis
Work is underway to tackle Scotland’s biodiversity crisis, but we are yet to see it at scale

22 Interview: Harriet Cross
The MP for Gordon and Buchan is seen as a rising star in the Conservatives

26 Local Politics
Labour’s Soryia Siddique wants MSPs to roll up their sleeves

27 Comment
The fine detail of legislation should not be a secondary consideration

28 Event Report
Roundtable in association with AstraZeneca

32 Diary
Bannockburn does strange things to the nationalists

33 Political Spin
David Torrance on being an SNP ‘hero’ – just for one day