Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Graham (?) for this comment: In the case of Faslane as the crow flies from there to Glasgow city centre it would be the equivalent distance of a Nuclear base being situated at Tilbury docks London. It’s always the same. Keep anything remotely hazardous as far away as possible from London and the Home Counties. But they want to control it though and reap the benefits from it. Everyone else is expendable. Especially us uppity Jocks. I’ve checked, roughly, with just one Scottish crow available in Scotland and a taxi driver in London, but … Continue reading After independence could they base the Trident subs in London’s Tilbury docks?

Professor John Robertson OBA The Scottish Tories are in the Scotsman front page again today to try to undermine the Scottish government with some very carefully selected statistics on the A1 road deaths. I saw the Reported collisions on the A1 between Edinburgh and Lamberton: FOI release when it was published without revealing who had requested it, on July 10th 2025 and wondered then if the response had been a disappointment to the Border Tories and their local media pals. It had and so, three months later, they’ve decided just to fiddle it and get the ever-willing Scotsman to publish it. … Continue reading Major safety improvements in Scottish section of the A1 with zero deaths compared to nearly 20 in just one English section to disappoint the Border Tories

Professor John Robertson OBA From the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health, three days ago: HARRISBURG, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) is coordinating the statewide distribution of free potassium iodide (KI) tablets on August 14 for all Pennsylvanians who live, work, or study within 10 miles of the four active nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth. The KI tablet distribution events are part of emergency preparedness planning and are only to be used in the unlikely event of a radiological release from a nuclear power plant. “The distribution of the KI tablets, which reduce the risk of thyroid cancer from … Continue reading US state authority issues second supply of iodine tablets to those living further away from nuclear plants than the Scots around Hunterston B or Torness to protect against thyroid cancer more common in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA Hospital Stats and Facts activist Dr Steve Taylor (https://x.com/DrSteveTaylor) posted the above today to draw attention the correlation between falling bed numbers and worsening A&E in NHS England. The contrast with Scotland, which of course, has far better A&E performance could not be more stark: The most recent data available on hospital beds per head of population for England, Scotland, and Wales comes from a mix of sources, primarily from 2023 and 2024. Below are the figures based on the best available information: Scotland has, per head of population almost twice as many hospital beds as … Continue reading Scotland has almost TWICE as many hospital beds per head of population than England to keep longer A&E waits at far lower levels

Professor John Robertson OBA From: Two days ago, in the Independent: A terrifying discovery was made at a nuclear facility in South Carolina: radioactive wasps. Radiological Control Operations found a wasp nest on a post close to a tank at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy I’m terrified. I’ve been out there. I’ve had the bites. Even several of my father-in-law’s Senior Service fags could not deter them. There are up to 200 trillion midges in Scotland: https://outaboutscotland.com/midges-in-scotland/ That’s more than 300 000 for each of us! Even if only a fraction get … Continue reading Terrifying prospect of Scotland’s 200 TRILLION midges spreading radioactivity from Labour’s new wee reactors