EWAN GURR: Old pal who ‘came back from the dead’ after drug-related attack
Seven years ago, while walking over a crossing at the Westport roundabout, I found my friend John bleeding profusely having been stabbed in a drug-related attack.
EWAN GURR: My dilemma over who to vote for on December 12
Last week was a peculiar one – a melting pot of bipolar conversations with people I either do not know calling me a Tory or people I do know laughing at me.
EWAN GURR: The beautiful side of the game
I don’t think I have ever shared in this column that I am a big football fan.
EWAN GURR: My election prediction is for Conservative majority
On the 12th day of December my true love gave to me... an election win for Boris Johnson.
EWAN GURR: Timex documentary a difficult watch
I found it difficult to watch the recent BBC Scotland documentary The Rise and Fall of Timex Dundee, despite the admirable stoicism and good humour of the largely female workforce.
EWAN GURR: Day Foodbank Mum met Universal Credit director
Milly Graham has had a tumultuous three years, having survived domestic violence, sexual assault and a suicide attempt while fighting back against anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress.
EWAN GURR: Desperate circumstances result in suicidal thoughts
I remember the first time I ever contemplated suicide.
EWAN GURR: My enduring love affair with the medium of print
It is 10.05am on a mild weekday and I have just spent 45 minutes foraging through five different newsagents from one end of Dundee city centre to the other in search of three newspapers and two magazines.
EWAN GURR: Unplugging from life at Pluscarden Abbey is the ultimate in relaxation
I have just arrived back from a beautiful place where it felt as if time stood still.
EWAN GURR: Decisions on future must put people before profit
Exactly 10 years ago, I visited India for the first time.
EWAN GURR: Voluntary sector on brink of breakdown
I attended a conference in Glasgow organised by A Menu for Change, a coalition of four charities including Poverty Alliance, Oxfam Scotland, CPAG Scotland and Nourish Scotland.
EWAN GURR: ‘People in Dundee are paying too high a price for dying’
German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, once said: “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
EWAN GURR: ‘We must come together to beat food poverty’
One of the welcome announcements to emerge from the Labour conference last week was the aspiration to halve foodbank use in the first year of a Labour Government.
EWAN GURR: Don’t reform Universal Credit – scrap it altogether
It is healthy for society when politics is at its best and that is only the case when opposition parties are effectively holding the democratically-elected government of the day to account.
EWAN GURR: Despite Yellowhammer, I still think we must leave EU
I read “Operation Yellowhammer” last week – the UK Government’s worst-case scenario planning in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
EWAN GURR: The children we nourish are those who will flourish
Having reached the middle of September, the true scale of the numbers using many charities over the summer months is only beginning to become clear.
EWAN GURR: Amber Rudd’s legacy overseeing Universal Credit is nothing to be proud of
The latest high-ranking resignation to pass through the revolving door at Westminster is Amber Rudd, the now former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
EWAN GURR: Universal Credit has exchanged social security for sexual slavery
I recently came across the story of a mother-of-two who had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy while applying for Universal Credit.
EWAN GURR: Radical drugs approach is needed for Dundee, city of recovery
What makes a 27-year-old woman take heroin for the first time?
Ewan Gurr: Indy support reaction to Westminster governance
The tectonic plates of the political landscape are shifting.