A decade on from the election of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years, it's still uncomfortable to recall just how traumatic a birth it was. The new Scottish democracy arrived amid scandal, confusion, incompetence and tragedy.
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10 years of devolution
Scandal, sleaze, confusion, incompetence ... and that was just the first few months. It had been a long time coming, but when Scotland saw its own parliament open at Holyrood expectations were running high and some disappointments were inevitable. Iain Macwhirter looks back at a tumultuous and historic decade
