The Guardian

Here is the building and some of the interiors, newly unveiled, that the Queen will see when she opens the Scottish parliament building in October. It is, quite simply, a triumph. A month or so before the Queen visits Edinburgh, however, the Fraser Report, an inquiry into the way in which the £431m building was procured, is due to be published. Having listened to 43 days of evidence and sifted his way through some million and more words, Lord Fraser is likely to declare, although in more measured terms than this, that the greatest building project in recent Scottish history has been a cockup, and on an epic scale. It is ironic that, before the building's 800% budget inflation was apparent, members of the Scottish parliament scoffed at the £230m bill for Portcullis House, the office block that would house some of their Westminster counterparts