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Jim SpenceThe Courier |
"The ongoing farrago over the new ground and the assorted elements which will accompany it would have tried the patience of a saint."
"With the SNP’s soft-on-crime stance, such youngsters feel invincible and untouchable when it comes to their behaviour."
"Freedom of expression is a vital component in any society but it’s not a licence for the unsavoury to display out of context and dangerous material."
"John Davidson’s neurological disability comes down the pecking order it seems."
In an increasingly violent world, a stick and a spray can are insufficient tools to protect the public from the mad, bad and dangerous.
"We all see our hometown through our own narrow vision."
"Such a decision is clearly at risk of being viewed through the lens of personal bias and partisanship given her personal circumstances."
"Has the museum squandered an opportunity which may never come around again?"
"In so many areas of public life, but also sadly among ordinary folk, an increasing lack of good manners and respect has been in evidence."
"They are restoring a bit of dignity to the battered and bruised reputation of our political system in Scotland."
"What’s happened in Scotland, and in plain sight, has been much more insidious and creeping, but equally effective."
Aberdeen Football Club chairman Dave Cormack suggested that he thinks that Dundee is on the up while Aberdeen is in a downward spiral - including its...
"Men are treated like second-class citizens when it comes to being tested for a disease which often has no symptoms."
Council chief executives across the country are in line for a pay rise after a national salary review.
"A university’s job is to educate and challenge students, promote and improve knowledge and further their learning," writes former law lecturer Jim...
"The respective states of the Overgate and Wellgate shopping centres reminds me of Dundee’s two senior football teams."
"With Christmas approaching, the workforce deserves to know the truth no matter how grim."
"This all appears to be part of the recently fashionable idea that folk should bring their 'whole selves to work'."
'Our local SNP politicians should be shouting from the rooftops about the threat to the Ninewells unit, but if they have, I haven’t heard them do so.'
'We need to make the town centre a desirable place to live and one which caters for the needs of inhabitants.'
"If anything they should be looking to increase investment and jobs in this area, because good journalism requires proper staffing and not shoestring...
'His strong and principled stance on the matter evaporated like sna aff a dyke.'
'This debate isn’t as clear cut as those on the extremities of politics would have us believe.'
"Persuading of the joys of a potentially sweaty, windy, wet, and possibly dangerous ride up the incline of the Lochee road in January after a day’s...
'Hoping to pressure planners in any public spat is inevitably doomed to failure.'
'It was her inability to tell the difference between a man and a woman which has largely led to her calamitous fall from grace.'
"Forbes may have decided that the prospects for independence under John Swinney are so distant that there’s little point in pursuing a lost cause."
'This is a council which doesn’t like to answer difficult questions.'
"Communities in Dundee and elsewhere are under increasing threat from organised criminals without scruples or common humanity."
'I already detect a sea change in attitudes from some people who are generally supportive of the institution.'
"Old commonly held notions of dignity, decency, and respect, have been slowly disappearing from our increasingly angry society."
There is a definitive size trend developing in Scottish football.
"I fear without stronger legal means the rot is now so deep in our public institutions that many within them feel untouchable."
'They’ve been kept in the dark by a management which has treated them very shabbily.'
'I wrote here last July that Reform had proved Scotland wasn’t immune to Farage’s charms, and the polls are proving that to be true.'
'Imagine facing sanctions for not buying The Courier,' writes former Beeb journalist Jim Spence.
'Cairdy v Campy has only one winner in my view.'
'The recently elected Dundee University rector cannot continue in the role if the Scottish Parliament is to retain any shred of credibility.'
"It seems that there’s something stirring in the souls of many of our young people as they question whether there is more to life."
'It’s highly unusual for any government agency to offer a public rebuke, but that’s exactly what happened to Dundee.'
'They have the solutions for all the ills of the world, except the ones ailing us here at home.'
'Glasgow has made more of its heritage than we have simply by shouting about it more loudly.'
'With MPs' pay set to rise to three times that of the average worker, I’m starting to think I should've accepted Alex Salmond's offer.'
The former first minister is culpable in the ongoing battles over gender and sex which continue to afflict and divide Scottish society.
Former University of Dundee rector Jim Spence reacts to the devastating job cuts at the institution.
'Teachers are at the sharp end of giving our children and grandchildren the best possible start in life.'
'In our increasingly fractured society, we’re too often herded towards the view that we should tow rigid party lines.'
"With almost everyone in the country talking about the case, the Scottish Parliament is refusing to allow questions from some MSPs to discuss the...
Bosses behind the institution's crisis make Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses look like a financial wizard. writes former rector Jim Spence.
Ordinary staff members are powerless as management try to renegotiate the terms of a multi-million-pound drawdown facility.
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