By Professor John Robertson OBA The Scottish Cons have been drooling at the above but it’s, no surprise, based on the inability to understand, or a nasty tendency to lie about, statistics. From official data reported today: and, crucially: Comparing recent public service data – crime, health, whatever – with those in the pandemic period 2020/2021, is frankly stupid, maybe dishonest, but many of our ratty media folk love to do it. We can, meaningfully, compare 2018/2019 data with recent data and what we get on this matter is, absolute discharges have fallen from 430 to 383, a 10.9% fall … Continue reading Evidence reveals justice system tough on crime under SNP as absolute discharges fall by massive 11%