Oh, OK, I admit it, I only got a C2 for the infant stage in West Quarter Primary School (1980?) after the class accused me of cheating on caterpillar/butterfly metamorphosis, but I then got a B+ with the ‘big yins’ (11 year-olds) in Bantaskine, before going on to great success in Stirling, corrupting young minds in the school football team with the cynical Italian ‘Catennacio’ defensive system.
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That is he, who is a much favoured guest of the BBC Scotland news teams, as one whose (far too) many regular contributions into #SNPBAD education stories have now become a very nasty habit adopted by both him and BBC Scotland.
A nasty habit via him being constantly platformed as a supposed, but clearly not , ‘impartial expert’ on various BBC Scotland news platforms.
Mind you he is not alone as a BBC #SNPBAD ‘expert’ whose opinion is favoured by the BBC.
As apparently they, BBC Scotland news team, seem unable to find any alternate opposing ‘expert’ opinions from that of their usual guest ‘experts’ , that is the ones that they ALWAYS platform on their various BBC news outlets who love to declare #SNPBAD.
As it seems that (according to the BBC) all ‘experts’ within Scotland who work in different fields within Scotland , all seem to hate, berate, accuse, attack , berate , scold and mostly only target the SNP as the Scottish government, yet they as the ‘go to’ BBC ‘experts’ within Scotland appear to have no similar sentiments, emotions and opposition towards all other political parties, either as political parties or as governments within the UK State.
Mind you it is not restricted to just ‘Experts’ , as the BBC also loves to platform news stories via mostly pro UK newspapers who also seem to hate the SNP.
Today the BBC Scotland’s news X account posted this in reference to a headline in the Sunday Herald on 13 September 2026:
“Scotland’s papers: Salmond files ‘withheld‘ and Reform £72m ‘war chest’
This was in relation to the (SNP) Ministers being accused of “trying to block the release of the Salmond files”.
Yet the same BBC Scotland news failed to post, publish and so promote that the Labour UK government refused to release files (also known as “withholding” and so “blocking files“) in respect to “a Israeli firm accused of interfering in Scotland’s 2026 Holyrood election” .
See that is the BBC yet again being very selective in what they choose to promote and also choose to ignore (and also in the language that they choose to use within their articles and reports).
As that language that they , the BBC, use in their articles and reports is often actually intended to cast doubt on the validity of certain stories that would show the SNP as being the targets of partisan attacks and hostility.
So then the BBC regularly try to promote only certain opinions as being credible that they , the BBC, thinks would show the SNP in a bad light.
However the reality is that they are just opinions , all sourced from those who are well known as being vehemently opposed to the SNP.
They as individual , media and political opinions are also via those same people known to be vehemently opposed to Scottish independence as well .
So clearly as those who are against the SNP and against Scottish independence then one should expect the BBC to be challenging the honesty and validity of their (hostile) opinions , as in those opinions that constantly criticise and so oppose everything and anything done by the SNP as the Scottish government.
(However the BBC in Scotland are also included in those whose opinions are always seen to be those that criticise and so oppose the SNP upon everything and anything that they do as the Scottish government).
BBC Scotland news is not journalism not reporting but IMHO (Ha Ha) it is pure unadulterated propaganda.
Liz S
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Remembered that the charter renewal process is under way. I see the Labour Government are considering a shift to a smaller core of universally available licence‑fee content (news, current affairs, factual, children’s) with other genres moved to subscription.
In other words, they will keep the propaganda license fee funded to justify continuing to lock UK citizens out of having a TV without helping to pay for their propaganda and they can continue to pretend that it is the people’s news and impartial!
The BBC has a ‘Royal Charter’; time to call for the end to that bit of flim-flam for what is simply a state broadcaster. Given that the monarch is also titular head of the Armed Forces, of the Church of England, and the UK Judicial Systems, this places the BBC at the centre of the Westminster system of government. So, not independent at all.
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I came across this from Paterson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR8Zm4YFiHo
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Yesterday MSM Monitor posted this comment on ‘X’:
“If we had told you The Sunday Show wouldn’t have one single dedicated segment on Sarwar abandoning the branch office for the Lords, Labour’s resultant schisms or the contest to replace him few would have believed it. Yet here we are. BBC Scotland’s flagship weekly current affairs show never had a single dedicated item on the collapse of the Sarwar project. Not one“.
MSM Monitor is right.
Yet think back prior to the Scottish elections and so then recollect the amount of times that Sarwar was platformed by that same BBC programme to spout the same old same old #SNPBAD politically partisan nonsense.
It is indeed, as a political situation, one that is conspicuously absent in the fact that there has been no major scrutiny nor condemnation in this BBC Scotland’s Sunday political programme on this Labour farce of a situation by the BBC itself.
Sarwar lost the Scottish elections at Holyrood (as in he failed).
Sarwar was then rewarded with a peerage by the new Labour leader, Andy Burnham.
That is the same Andy Burnham who declared that he was going to do “politics differently” (from what was assumed to be that of his predecessor Keir Starmer).
Yet sadly this same kind of action is all too familiar as the very same type of action that Starmer was also guilty of doing.
(As Starmer awarded a peerage to Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire who lost her seat in the 2024 UK GE – that is she failed to be re-elected , so then she too was also rewarded for failure ).
However as a further reward (for failure) Sarwar was then also given a job in Burnham’s UK government.
The BBC Sunday show have filed this disgraceful situation , aka Labour farce , under ‘Nothing to see here’ , probably because they cannot frame it as yet another of their #SNPBAD stories.
Remember after the Scottish elections in May the same BBC reported on the 10 May that:
“Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says he will stay as leader to “hold the party together” after “hurtful” election results”.
“hurtful” as in he, Sarwar, and Labour were rejected by the majority of voters within Scotland.
“Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday Show, Sarwar says he takes his share of responsibility for the party’s performance and will not “recoil” from his call for UK leader Keir Starmer to resign”.
Fitting then is it not that just like Keir Starmer , we then saw Sarwar , yet again , do another U-turn on something that he previously said he would not do – also then clearly a case of both Sarwar and Starmer having previously LIED.
As Starmer had also said that he would stay on (as an MP ) until the next UK GE after being ousted as the Labour leader (then he resigned as an MP).
This farcical sorry state of a situation (together with other similar or worse farcical situations) is the Labour party in a nutshell , as it is also very much representative of the kind of farcical behaviour that we also get from the various news and debate programmes from the BBC in Scotland as well.
It will only desist as a repeated bad behaviour that we , in Scotland, are constantly subjected to when Scotland finally achieves it’s independence away from both Labour and the BBC.
Amen to that.
Liz S
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