Summary
If a man were permitted to make all the ballads," wrote Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, "he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." His words read like a charter for those agin the government or, at the very least, profoundly scunnered with it. Yet they are engraved on the wall of the new Parliament at Holyrood, as firmly embedded in Miralles's vision as its fretwork of girders.
Are they displayed as a reminder to politicians that there are voices beyond Holyrood that are as important as their own? Or are they meant as a solace and encouragement to passers-by who despair over legislation, or the lack of it?See the full content of this document
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No, It's Not Fiction: Holyrood Gets a Writer-in-Residence
It cuts both ways, probably, but as the Parliament welcomed its first writer in residence last week - the first such post in the UK, if not further afield - it would seem that our governors are open, in theory at...
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