Holyrood Magazine issue 392 / 20 November 2017
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Scotland’s transport agenda including interview with Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf, and a look at the new low emission zones; Interview with Roseanna Cunningham, cabinet secretary for the environment, land reform and climate change, on Brexit; also, industry response to Scotland’s new diet and obesity strategy.
3 Editor’s note
Salmond, typically, is unrepentant and displays all the two-fingered hubris that so enrages his critics and affords him little grace. But, regardless of how he spins it, it is an own goal
6 Roundup
Pictures and numbers from the past two weeks
7 Talking Point
Fears over income tax rises have been overplayed
9 Digital Highlights
The best of Twitter and Holyrood’s online content
10 Political Spotlight
The so-called Westminster ‘power-grab’ is starting to look a bit limp-fisted
12 Cover Story: Transport infrastructure
Scotland’s transport agenda is big, bold, and ambitious, but things don’t always go to plan
16 Transport Interview: Humza Yousaf
The Transport Minister reflects on his first year in the job, with expletives deleted
24 Transport Focus: Low Emission Zone
Is Scotland ready for the roll out of low emission zones?
28 Political Interview: Roseanna Cunningham
The cabinet secretary for the environment, land reform and climate change on her concerns over Brexit
33 Feature: Obesity strategy
The diet and obesity strategy has kicked off, but will industry play ball?
38 Comment: Bosnia needs our love
Duncan Dunlop on the 40-year cycle of war in the Balkans
40 Event Report
Innovation and embracing failure were key themes of SOCITM Scotland 2017
44 Getting To Know You
Tom Arthur on music, shrunken ties and offal
46 Comment
Henry McLeish: the failure to devolve power is at the heart of the current crisis
48 Diary
Mhairi Black fans, auto-generated Holyrood text and champagne socialists
49 Politicians & Their Pets
Holyrood heads north to find a pet ferret
50 Last Word
Parliamentary sketch: A debate on immigration sees some very strange pudding-based insults thrown around