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THE Scottish Parliament proved an eerily empty space yesterday morning. I had arrived late thanks to a cancelled train and subsequent service delays. Just faulty points at Haymarket, apparently. Getting through the Gleneagles-style perimeter fencing around Holyrood, my hosts, the Scottish Greens, had warned, required my invitation, my passport and a recent letter bearing my home address.
Our seminar, in the week of G8, was about measuring what matters. GDP, our main speaker Alan AtKisson argued, had been "a beautiful invention". But it had become a statistic which "measures bad things and gives them good scores". We now need something "broader, deeper and wiser" than GDP, he told us, something which captures our sense of well-being, our commitment to sustainability and our feelings of life satisfaction.See the full content of this document
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Murky World Which Casually Eliminates Innocent Citizens
As I headed back to Glasgow I caught the first traumatic television images of the carnage in London.
Any irritation I might have felt at everyday transport delays or irksome security procedures evaporated. I can still sit at my keyboard and write what I choose. A lot of people boarded a bus and a...See the full content of this document
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