The principals won’t like this report. So let’s …

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The principals won’t
like this report. So let’s
press ahead anyway


Life of George
An uncertain stream

Is Scotland to be
regarded as a feeble

child in the playground?


Angus Skinner
Boredom will win

Weekend SR

The weekend edition of the Scottish Review, normally published on Thursday, will appear this week on Friday

SR’s remarkable growth as an independent magazine is based largely on word of mouth. Here are examples of our journalism:

* SR played a leading role in the successful campaign to save St Margaret of Scotland Hospice

* SR campaigned for greater transparency in Scottish public life and won a landmark judgement from the Scottish information commissioner which has led to a transformation in the information available about executive salaries and pensions in public bodies

*  Having discovered elderly people still living in a near-derelict block of flats in Glasgow, sometimes without a water supply, SR campaigned to have them decently re-housed. With the help of Scotland’s housing minister, Alex Neil, we succeeded

* SR continues to campaign – so far without success – to broaden the range of appointments to national organisations beyond a self-perpetuating elite

Unlike many publications SR doesn’t have an online comment facility – we prefer a more considered approach. The Cafe is our readers’ forum. If you would like to contribute to it, please email islay@scottishreview.net

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Islay’s Scotland

The big smoke
Photograph by Islay McLeod

I thought I was
 
covered. The gas man

thought otherwise

Andrew Hook