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Calum Steele: Old Firm disgrace showed us why police numbers really matter

Thirteen years ago Glasgow was overrun with folk desperate to catch sight of the carnage coursing through its city centre. Helicopters were in the...

18.12.2024 30

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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 ago...

04.12.2024 10

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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 and...

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 7

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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, habitually...

30.10.2024 4

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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 10

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Calum Steele: Police Scotland chief is not accountable to public. That must change

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...

03.10.2024 8

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Calum Steele: The madness of Police Scotland bosses knows no bounds

Petitions are usually dreary things. Habitually thought up by those with an over-inflated sense of importance, they stand alongside “pledges” as a...

18.09.2024 5

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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 10

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Calum Steele: Sheer hypocrisy of the liberal left in their response to English riots

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?...

20.08.2024 6

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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 every...

07.08.2024 5

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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 30

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Calum Steele: Will the SNP listen and will justice finally be served?

Last week the nation followed the red brick road to the Emerald City, pulled back the curtain and revealed the vacuousness that stood behind it. The...

10.07.2024 10

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Calum Steele: So, what is behind Chief Constable's latest apology?

We all have at least one friend who when out for an Indian or Chinese meal would struggle to pick from a single choice menu. They always insist on...

26.06.2024 10

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My heart broke for woman who was raped – but we can't jail innocent men

Last week nine High Court judges sat to hear the Lord Advocate argue an 87-year-old ruling on how the law of corroboration is interpreted acts as a...

12.06.2024 10

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Calum Steele: 'Use it or lose it' should not apply to our police service

“Use it or lose it”, those of us of a certain vintage will recall, was the slogan to save hundreds of local post office branches in the 1980s....

28.05.2024 10

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Calum Steele: Chief Constable Jo Farrell inherited many problems then made them worse

Despite being appointed as Chief Constable in June last year Jo Farrell has been something of an elusive figure in Scottish public life. Last week,...

16.05.2024 30

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