A Tangled Web

A 'Rood' Awakening



Something is slowly emerging above the skyline of Britain's finest city (Edinburgh). It is the building shortly to become home to 129 of the most pampered and useless figures in British politics. Yes, ladies and gentleman, after falling two years behind schedule and costing 10 times the original estimate, the new Holyrood parliament building will finally be occupied on September 7th.



You would think that a building which has taken so long to construct (it has taken the same amount of time to build the parliament as it did to erect the Sears Tower in Chicago!!) would be all but atomic bomb-proof, wouldn't you? But no! Rain has been flooding into the basement area of the new folly, damaging a police office in the process. Like just about every other grandiose structure conceived and nurtured by New Labour (the Dome, the Diana Memorial Fountain and the Thames Walkway) the new Holyrood building has been marred by costly embellishments, poor craftsmanship and general unsuitability for the environment in which it is located. Nevertheless, in this case, the porosity of the building matches the permeability of principle of those who will be contained therein. How fitting!