Onwards, then, to the second glorious decade of Scottish devolution. Here's Iain Gray, Labour's Scottish leader (Gray, Brown - they're all named after boring colours), extolling the virtues of the pretendy Parly: "Has it [the Scottish Parliament] made a difference?" he asked rhetorically. "Yes it has. When the Parliament started one in five children in this country lived in poverty. That's now one...

Julia Unwin CBE, chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, will today lead a conference to assess the work of the Scottish Parliament in reducing poverty and inequalities. The conference will be held in the Debating Chamber and is part of the programme of activities to mark the 10th anniversary of devolution.

The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010 has been tabled in Parliament this week bringing about changes in the law for the Scottish Parliament election

A swathe of new powers, including control over income tax, would be transferred from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament, under plans unveiled by the Government.

The Scottish and UK governments must work together to tackle the issue of child poverty, according to a report published today by the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee.

A ONE-DAY conference at the Scottish Parliament will assess how Holyrood has helped reduce poverty and inequality.

There are nearly sixty Westminster Members of Parliament sitting for Scottish seats. Far too many when so much decision-taking has been devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Almost every aspect of every day life in Scotland, where there is any government intervention, is a matter for their own Government and their own Parliament. The intervention of those sitting for Scottish seats in matters that ...

On Tuesday I wrote a post in the local government blogs section about the Scottish Labour and Liberal Democrat leadership campaigns. Yesterday I received this email from a reader:Much as I enjoyed your ‘A Super Scottish Summer' blog I felt its placement in the Local Government Blog section an insult to the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Parliament is not a local council. Scotland has loca...

In the Guardian's A woman's place series, Lesley Abdela laments the paucity of women in parliament. Eighty years on, the UK parliament rates 69th in the world league of women in parliament, one ignoble place below Cambodia. Women's representation in politics is not linked to whether a country is rich or poor. The US has 16.8%

I am in the process of being formally denounced by the Scottish Parliament for remarks I made on CoffeeHouse last week - that Castlehouse and Easterhouse were "beautiful names, but scummy estates". An MSP named Charlie Gordon has found time in his busy schedule to table a motion against what he read on the blog. So far, it has 11 signatures. It reads as follows: That the Parliament notes...