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Article: Dire, oh dear, at the Hub of politics
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- March 10, 2006
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AT LAST, I have been to the new parliament at Holyrood. And, lo,
they had moved up the road to the Hub. I'm glad really. I've
developed a phobia about the place. My visit this week was just to
pick up a security pass, for which I was led down Kafkaesque
corridors, past torture chambers and mysterious doors marked
"Catering".
After initial trouble getting into the building - the various bits
of bamboo I was hauling on turned out to be windows rather than doors
- I was cheerily greeted by the people who love me most in
parliament: the security guards. What lovely folk they are.
We stood swapping anecdotes and reminiscences, though I did not
understand one particular thing that had made them ...