by the size of another prison.’ Professor John Robertson OBA According to Reporting Scotland, tonight there are 8 430 inmates in Scottish prisons and the system was ‘designed‘ to hold only 7 800, thus suggesting ‘the system is in overcapacity by the size of another prison,‘ From Audit Scotland in 2023: SPS has advised that as at November 2023 the extended operating capacity that the prison estate can accommodate is 8,475. This is the level at which prisons go above their target operating capacity but can still provide a ‘restricted regime’. The target operating capacity, currently 8,007, is agreed between … Continue reading Contrary to another BBC Scotland lie, Scotland’s prisons may be near to full capacity but still have room for another 45

Professor John Robertson OBA You can buy a poster of Donald Trump as the messiah on Amazon. Seriously, many on the Christian right in the USA actually think he is. He may do too. Nigel Farage, if you’ve heard him speak and read of his actions, you’ll know, is not the messiah but a very nasty man. The MSM has been accused for some time of undemocratically enabling the Reform UK campaign with undue space and oxygen such as 38 BBC Question Time appearances despite 0 MPs until 2024. Does Damien Shields, above, know what he is doing? Why is … Continue reading Good God! First, Trump is the messiah, now it’s Farage as a dodgy pollster puts his followers in second place in Scotland and the Herald harkens to his angels of death

and Wales were released when they should not have been. Former prison governors say it’s the manifestation of a broken system Professor John Robertson OBA As UK media focus today on the one case of an asylum seeker accused of sex offences against a minor, BBC UK tell us the above. In Scotland, these last few months, the MSM have had tales of crisis-hit prisons, breaching prisoners’ human rights and a level of overcrowding that cannot be ignored. In these alleged circumstances, you have to think mistakes like those above will have been made in Scotland too. No specific, documented … Continue reading In 2024 there were 262 mistaken prisoner releases in England & Wales but NONE in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA There’s no point filling in a BBC Complaints form which goes to Darlington and comes back essentially unanswered. Write to this man directly, copied to your MSP, on paper preferably. Howard Simpson is the current Head of News and Current Affairs at BBC Scotland, overseeing the editorial direction for Reporting Scotland. He took on this role in May 2025, succeeding Gary Smith. As head, he leads the news teams producing the programme, including reporters, producers, and output editors. While specific programme editors handle day-to-day production, Simpson’s position makes him the key editorial figure for Reporting Scotland … Continue reading After today’s Turkish ferry crew fake news and all the other s**t we have to take write to this guy

Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland has the above this morning. Soon after, Murray Foote and others hade exposed their dirty tricks: BBC Scotland had essentially ‘double-counted’ the salary and other costs of the crew members already needed to run the ferries as if they were new additional costs because of building in Turkey. In May 2023, they tried a similar, smelly, trick with this: I wrote then: Ferry operator Calmac has run up a £1.6 million bill for crewing cost for the Glen Sannox, which is still under construction. Calmac has hired 14 staff to date and they’re all … Continue reading BBC Scotland repeat their new ferry crew costs fake news trick from 2023 to widespread disgust and righteous sneering

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to gavinochiltree for alerting us to this. Earlier posts here have drawn attention to Scottish Labour’s complicity with the idea of reintroducing nuclear power stations into Scotland and their implicit acceptance of consequent cancer risks from their emissions directly and indirectly from the poorly stored waste in places like Sellafield, close to the Scottish border. I had not known, until reader Gavin wrote that he had seen research suggesting that these northern igneous/granite locations are actually less safe than deep clay beds. I did a quick AI search and he’s correct: Are deep clay beds … Continue reading Research – the safest place by far to bury high-level nuclear waste is in the deep clay beds of the South-East around London