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Calum Steele

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Calum Steele: Yes, we need reform of public services – but are our leaders up to it?

Calum Steele: Yes, we need reform of public services – but are our leaders up to it?

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...

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Calum Steele: How the first line of defence against the mad and the bad has been lost

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...

04.12.2024 3

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Calum Steele: Sad to say, but Holyrood is so small-minded compared to Westminster

William Hague’s spontaneous and self-deprecating tribute to John Prescott was the most perfect example of how far behind the Scottish Parliament...

27.11.2024 20

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It's time the Highlands and Islands got reparations for the sins of the clearances

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...

13.11.2024 3

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British authorities care more about gun-toting gangsters than our police officers

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,...

30.10.2024 2

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Calum Steele: Why do death and destruction no longer shock us to the core?

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...

16.10.2024 2

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Calum Steele: Memo to the Government: the key to the drugs fight is beating addiction

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...

04.09.2024 8

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Calum Steele: Politicians have betrayed the police. Now we are reaping the whirlwind

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...

07.08.2024 1

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Calum Steele: Why condemn the attack on Trump but stay silent about the rest of us?

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...

24.07.2024 20

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