Our extended featured interview with Professor Nigel Seaton marks what could be a major turning point for Dundee University.

One year after the financial crisis hit the headlines, is the university safe? What happens next? And does he regret taking that call to take on the difficult job?

The Courier editor David Clegg joins political journalists Alasdair Clark and Andy Philip to look at the institutional failures, how the city has responded to the crisis and how this saga is a warning for the entire country.

Scottish prisons are creaking at the seams with inmates, and staff are bearing the brunt.

Some prisoners are being released in a third “emergency” pressure release.

Phil Fairlie of the Scottish Prison Officers Association joins us to explain what it’s like on the front line.

We also look at the latest stories behind the headlines, including a glimmer of good news for people caught up in the crumbling concrete housing crisis in Aberdeen.

And we look at an update on disgraced NHS Tayside surgeon Sam Eljamel as the public inquiry gets closer.

From Russian aggression, to culture wars in the aisles of a Dundee Hobbycraft, this week’s Stooshie covers ground.

We start with a catch up after Scottish Parliament recess and what we gleaned from a few days in Whitehall and Westminster.

Defence is a hot topic, with German planes using RAF Lossiemouth and big questions about the threat from Russia off Scotland’s coasts.

The team gets into the new plan to use an Inverness barracks as migrant accommodation – how are locals reacting?

And we look at toxic culture wars on gender and freedom of speech, including a Tory “joke” about Rangers, and a gender rights row in a craft shop.