scottish parliament

Members of the Scottish Parliament were sent home after a “significant Microsoft outage” knocked Holyrood’s electronic voting system offline during a marathon sitting, exposing the brittle intersection of modern parliamentary procedure and cloud-dependent infrastructure. Background The...

The Scottish Parliament was forced to suspend and ultimately cancel an evening of votes after a global Microsoft Azure outage knocked Holyrood’s electronic voting system offline on October 29, 2025, leaving lawmakers unable to cast ballots on nearly 400 amendments to the Land Reform Bill and...