As Ukraine and Iran wars mark the end of cheap oil and gas, Scotland transfers a record 21TWh of electricity in 2025, the highest ever and nearly 300TWh in total since 2000, to England, for no significant return
From Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2025 published today: Electricity transfers data show that Scotland exported 21.7 TWh of electricity and imported 0.9 TWh of electricity in 2025. This means that Scotland’s net exports of electricity (exports minus imports) in 2025 were 20.8 TWh. Scotland’s net electricity exports in 2025 had an indicative value of £1.7 billion based on the average wholesale day-ahead contracts price trend for 2025 https://www.gov.scot/publications/energy-statistics-for-scotland-q4-2025/pages/electricity-exports/ Looking back over the quarter century of electricity generated in Scotland then transferred to England to raise revenue the UK Treasury and the owners, none based in Scotland, the figures are huge. … Continue reading As Ukraine and Iran wars mark the end of cheap oil and gas, Scotland transfers a record 21TWh of electricity in 2025, the highest ever and nearly 300TWh in total since 2000, to England, for no significant return
BBC Scotland still acting as if it is an opposition party to the SNP in Scotland
By Liz S BBC Scotland website yesterday : Headline – “Labour drops election candidate after fraud charge” At 14.57pm that article , which was only added yesterday onto their site, was the 4th article on the Scotland main page, by 4pm above, gone and the 2nd article on the Scottish politics page. The top article yesterday on both the Scotland main page and politics page was this: “SNP candidate ditched over handling of Linden complaints” (Note that according to the BBC website headlines, the Labour candidate was “dropped” but the SNP candidate was “Ditched”). This morning it is still the top article on the Scottish politics page and now the 7th article … Continue reading BBC Scotland still acting as if it is an opposition party to the SNP in Scotland
Reposted as next week’s disability cuts in England & Wales will make people destitute
Reposted as ‘UK terror’ surge is forewarned by senior police officer in London
How UK Labour might follow the Trump Administration ‘doing something horrifying to workers at nuclear facilities’
In Futurism, yesterday: It isn’t just the guys handling plutonium who need to worry about radiation — every US nuclear worker, from the plumbers patching leaks to the janitors mopping floors, has a reason to be on guard. New reporting by High Country News detailed the startling impact the Trump administration is having on the safety of nuclear energy workers. As part of the administration’s “nuclear renaissance,” the US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun stripping back effective safety regulations that had previously limited workers’ exposure to deadly radiation. “They’re pulling away from what’s kept us safe all these years,” Bradley Clawson, a former nuclear … Continue reading How UK Labour might follow the Trump Administration ‘doing something horrifying to workers at nuclear facilities’
Open Letter to Lesley Riddoch of Politics from a Scottish Perspective podcast, on CalMac ferries
Open Letter to Lesley Riddoch of Politics from a Scottish Perspective podcast, episode 921: https://lesleyriddoch.com/podcast Dear Lesley With the greatest, genuine, respect, I must protest your recent, unnecessarily heated and, unusually, ill-informed, characterisation of my extensive, evidence-based research into ferry services across the developed world, without, it seems, much background research into the 50 plus reports on my blog, most well before AI help I should add. I must also protest your personal naming of me rather than the blog. I get more hate on this topic than any other, strangely, and wonder if I’d be safe on a bike … Continue reading Open Letter to Lesley Riddoch of Politics from a Scottish Perspective podcast, on CalMac ferries
Reform UK make the case, again, for Scottish Independence.
Above the utterly implausible hazardous routes by which small boats full of migrants would have to travel to come ashore in Berwick or in Stranraer but, hey, geography was never Reform UK’s strongpoint judging by their new campaign vans below. So, they’re not coming to Scotland by boats. They’re coming by bus, train or car, up the road from England? Easily solution full independence and border control. Continue reading Reform UK make the case, again, for Scottish Independence.
Scotland is first to recognise and to invest in research into Childhood Dementia but BBC Reporting Scotland shamefully hides this positive action within tragedy for FORTY paragraphs
to officially recognise childhood dementia and the Scottish Government has provided £118 000 to Alzheimers Scotland to employ two Childhood Dementia Development Officers but for Sophia that’s coming too late. BBC Reporting Scotland today at 1pm had a report on the above, featuring an interview with a father that had me in tears. So moved, I did not notice the above comment that came half-way through but amid the tragedy, surely that’s the news. In the fuller online report, that key news is not in the headline and only appears in the 40th out of 50 paragraphs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj634ml71o Shameful exploitation … Continue reading Scotland is first to recognise and to invest in research into Childhood Dementia but BBC Reporting Scotland shamefully hides this positive action within tragedy for FORTY paragraphs
A1 Edinburgh to Lamberton road deaths and overall accident rates plummet to counter to opposition party claims
Eight months ago, the Scotsman had the above, platforming some opposition politicians. It’s behind a paywall so who cares. Note the ‘alarming’ casualty toll. Finding the above report was triggered by seeing Transport Scotland number of collisions on the A83: FOI release, published today, which revealed: I wonder if this FOI was requested by those well-known figures, Edinburgh MSPs, Alex Cole-Hamilton (Lib Dem) and Daniel Johnson (Labour). If they did, they should be disappointed but, knowing their deep duplicity, they’ll just add them all up to get a big number and ignore the clearly improving trend they surely did not … Continue reading A1 Edinburgh to Lamberton road deaths and overall accident rates plummet to counter to opposition party claims
As gangs of youths run riot in Clapham for second night will Scotland’s plummeting anti-social behaviour figures cause a problem for media operating in ‘SNP soft touch on crime’ Scotland?
In the Telegraph and other media today, the above story and: Another day, another mini-riot, as gangs of marauding youths run amok – this time in Clapham, south London. A few days ago social media was full of footage of what seemed to be teenagers (they were all in hoodies so one can’t be sure how old they were) causing chaos in Wolverhampton, throwing eggs at anyone they could find. Video then emerged of hundreds of young men and women rushing a streetwear pop-up shop in Soho in central London. The footage was notable only for being not remotely notable; … Continue reading As gangs of youths run riot in Clapham for second night will Scotland’s plummeting anti-social behaviour figures cause a problem for media operating in ‘SNP soft touch on crime’ Scotland?
Talking-up Scotland 