Hugh Reilly: Charity gets message across as it says hello to Holyrood

LAST week, I managed to slip under the wire and swap the tedium of school for the excitement of attending a parliamentary reception for Mindroom, a Scottish charity.

Arriving at Holyrood, a fitting monument to pre-credit crunch decadence, I joined the line of other losers waiting to enter perhaps the only Edinburgh attraction offering free admission.

Security was tight – a primary class of 30 kids was thoro...