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Calum SteeleHerald Scotland |
Anyone born and raised in the Hebrides raised more than an eyebrow as Storm Eowyn and its 100mph winds was labelled a once in a generation weather...
It would be nice to believe the names of Katie Allan and William Brown will be indelibly etched into our collective consciousness forever more. The...
My dear friend, former parliamentarian and all-round good guy John Finnie used to tell me: if the police service was a restaurant and you complained...
I‘ve no doubt there will be lots of talk of reform in 2025. As an appetiser and with the New Year a mere five days old Elon Musk has decreed...
As dawn breaks on a new year and an increasingly feverish countdown to the inauguration of one Donald J Trump, it is tempting to look back on 2024...
This time last year as Jo Farrell was knocking back the snowballs and tucking her piggies into their blankets I wonder if she turned her attention...
Thirteen years ago Glasgow was overrun with folk desperate to catch sight of the carnage coursing through its city centre. Helicopters were in the...
The conviction of Finlay MacDonald last week for murder and attempted murder as a result of his knife and gun rampage in and around Skye two years...
William Hague’s spontaneous and self-deprecating tribute to John Prescott was the most perfect example of how far behind the Scottish Parliament...
I may have lived in six different houses in the past 30-odd years but as an emigrant son of South Uist, I and many like me will always refer to the...
In one of those where were you JFK moments I remember almost every word that was spoken and how a room of 20 hard-nosed blokes and lassies,...
One of my most vivid childhood memories growing up in South Uist was our school’s annual fundraising for “the black babies”. Even in primary...
In a world of infinite viewing and entertainment options it ranks as one of the worst things to watch on a screen. Quite how it managed to secure a...
Petitions are usually dreary things. Habitually thought up by those with an over-inflated sense of importance, they stand alongside “pledges” as...
Sarah (not her real name) was 15 when I first met her. A stunningly beautiful, popular young woman, succeeding in school, and who from outward...
As Scotland continues to boast the riots that hit much of the wider UK didn’t materialise here, it’s worth asking ourselves not why, but what if?...
During one of many debates I had on the importance of police numbers, I was asked if I wanted to live in a society that has a police officer on...
A chorus of condemnation rang out across the political world following the attempted assassination of the son of Mary Anne Macleod from the Isle of...