Dani Garavelli

LEGACIES are complex, contested things. The greater the influence a politician has wielded, the more likely they are to have made enemies along the way. The longer they have maintained that position of influence, the more likely they are to have errors of judgment mingled in with their achievements.

Dani Garavelli recalls her own days at University and hopes current students have similar experiences

NOT long after Sarah Everard’s abduction and murder by a serving police officer - when angry women were being told to get a grip by rape apologists - I came across a post which said: “We KNOW it’s not all men; we just don’t know which men it is.” That has been my mantra ever since.

IN THE week the rest of the world was fighting for Oasis tickets, our young team had their eyes on a different prize. When the clock struck 7pm on Monday, they each clicked on the link in the hopes of securing a place at the last-ever night at Glasgow southside clubbing institution The Shed, which is closing next weekend.

William’s death sent shock waves through the criminal justice system and kick-started a campaign to outlaw the jailing of under-18s

GETTING emotional over my work is not something I’m prone to, but I did shed a tear when the Scottish government confirmed all the remaining children detained in Polmont had finally been transferred to secure care.

FOR more than a decade, Jim Murphy was racked with guilt over his efforts to help those injured when a police helicopter plummeted into the Clutha bar, killing the three people on board and seven customers.

ON FRIDAY morning, in preparation for writing this column, I started jotting down all the catastrophic decisions, announcements and events the SNP had presided over in the last seven days.

WHEN she was 16, and just out of the care system, Jenni Fagan watched a film about Shiva, the god/goddess of creation and destruction. “It was about how [creation and destruction] are the same energy flipped and how we all came out of a burst of light,” she says. “To be drawn to that light, to be drawn to strengthening it, that’s a radical act, a political act in a world where we are told we are meant to be miserable and to stand quietly.”

Justice Secretary Angela Constance on the importance of reducing Scotland’s prison population and the measures her government is taking to achieve it.