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Jim SpenceThe Courier |
It’s amazing how much of our lives are tied up in what we carry around with us, as I discovered when I lost my shoulder bag on Sunday. Fortunately...
The possibility of three other independence candidates standing against the SNP’s Pete Wishart for his Perthshire seat at Westminster indicates the...
Having given birth to a Hate Crime Law which has divided the nation, the Scottish Parliament will soon be asked to breathe life into another...
Frontline officers have been put under intolerable pressure by the new hate crime law which appropriately came into force on April Fool’s Day....
I foresee an outbreak of absolute apathy at the next election. You don’t need a crystal ball to recognise great numbers of folk are fed up with...
Has devolution been a success or a failure? Would you vote for a Scottish Parliament tomorrow if you were asked again? Is it time to return real power...
April Fools’ Day this year could be the day JK Rowling ends up not in Hogwarts, but in the nick. That’s the day Scotland brings in a law so...
Victims of violent crime should always be more important than those guilty of committing the crime. When it comes to deciding whether parole should be...
Can those whose lives have been ruined by the disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel trust anything the Scottish Government and NHS Tayside say? It appears...
Have we produced a generation of softies? Are we cultivating a marshmallow-centred citizenry who would take fright at the flapping of butterfly wings?...
The news that my fellow Courier columnist Kezia Dugdale voted SNP while she was a Labour MSP, over her anger at Brexit, has caused some gnashing of...
Just when you think the shenanigans in Scottish public life can no longer surprise you, another electric revelation stuns you. The bolt from the blue...
I’ve just watched the Netflix series Fool Me Once. It’s a tale of double dealing and duplicity; an edge of the seat affair with an unexpected...
Dundee and Dundee United sharing a stadium is a “no brainer” according to a local businessman who knows both clubs well. He has a point – the...
Sitting not far from me at midnight mass recently was Humza Yousaf. A few pews away was local politician Michael Marra, Labour MSP for North East...
“If you accept mediocrity that’s almost certainly what you’ll get.” That was the football mantra of the late Dundee United chairman and...
It’s often said that ‘sorry’ is the hardest word. If that’s true then it has an inseparable twin in ‘forgiveness’. Many of us, including...
The NHS is perhaps our most treasured national institution, and one which almost everyone has had reason to thank at some stage. Increasingly though,...
It may be the time of the season for goodwill to all men and women but some folk sadly don’t share that sentiment. Anti-social tenants don’t...
Is it time for the BBC to stand on its own two feet? Should the TV licence – a form of compulsory poll tax on viewing – be scrapped? These are...
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”...
Being a cop and putting yourself in harm’s way to protect the public is an increasingly thankless task. And the men and women who tackle the violent...
The company we keep can say a lot about us. That’s why the majority of well-meaning folk on the pro-Palestine marches should be paying closer...
I spent Saturday morning giving a Glasgow journalist a tour of my boyhood neighbourhood Kirkton. That’s where the police were attacked on Bonfire...
As a boy, my Saturday mornings were spent taking the bus to town to the arcade in Shore Terrace. It was there I’d buy Superman comics and generally...
Dundee and other Scottish cities need freedom from the financial shackles of Holyrood and real power to decide which services are important for the...
Nicola Sturgeon should really have handed in her equity card and left the stage to Humza Yousaf as he prepared for his first national conference...
Nicola Sturgeon should really have handed in her equity card and left the stage to Humza Yousaf as he prepared for his first national conference...
My opinion last week that the SNP were heading for the political rocks came true in Rutherglen. Labour wiped the floor, with the Nats soundly rejected...
Both the SNP and the Conservatives have run adrift and are heading for the political rocks. And all Labour under Sir Keir Starmer has to do, as both...
I’m wondering if SNP voters in Dundee are suffering from a kind of Stockholm syndrome – that’s the condition where hostages form a sympathetic...
There’s no justice, just us, goes the old gag. But the state of justice at the moment, and the battle that some folk face to achieve it, is no...
As Dundee’s V&A museum celebrates its fifth birthday, has it lost its way? Is the flagship design museum drifting from public consciousness? Is it...