In the Guardian today: Covid-19 death tolls at individual care homes are being kept secret by regulators in part to protect providers’ commercial interests before a possible second coronavirus surge, the Guardian can reveal. England’s Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Care Inspectorate in Scotland are refusing to make public which homes or providers recorded the most fatalities amid fears it could undermine the UK’s care system, which relies on private operators. In May, prompted by the coordinated attempts to blame the Scottish Government for alleged failures in guidance, hospital discharges and in PPE supply, by private care home owners with links … Continue reading Did more die in the private care homes?

Full story at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/08/27/gmb-labour-lie-about-scotlands-power-offered-up-unchallenged-by-reporting-scotlands-resident-labour-councillor/ Continue reading Complaint as Catriona Renton claims: ‘Scotland will be more dependent than ever on fossil fuels, largely imported gas.’

Though testing in Scotland has started to climb away from levels in the other 3 nations, the reported infection level per capita (below) is only half of that in England and only one-third of that in Northern Ireland, suggesting a very low underlying level. While the infection level is also low in Wales, the much lower testing level there may conceal the true scale. Not clear from the above one-day figures is the huge scale of infection building up in England where the 7 day average has been above 1 000 for two weeks now, on top of around 700 … Continue reading Despite much higher testing levels in Scotland, infections in England are running twice as high per capita

After two admittedly fair reports on testing of children and young people and the use of the Louisa Jordan hospital, Catriona Renton, former Labour Party councillor, in a strangely hesitant and amateurish manner, slipped in a small but important lie about the closure of Hunterston B nuclear power station: The announcement ensures that Scotland will be more dependent than ever on fossil fuels, largely imported gas. This is another frankly astonishing claim which the BBC charter and editorial guidelines require it to have checked for accuracy. BBC Scotland staff know well the true facts on any supposed dependence on fossils … Continue reading GMB/Labour lie about Scotland’s power offered up unchallenged by Reporting Scotland’s resident Labour councillor

Less than 3 weeks ago, Scotland’s MSM and their opposition party feeders were hopeful they might embarrass the Scottish Government on their contact tracing data. Sadly for them, last week, the FM was able to reveal 97% success. Today the figures for England were published and only 75.5% have been contacted, failing the 80% (only) target there: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/27/uk-coronavirus-live-people-on-low-pay-to-get-covid-isolation-payment?page=with:block-5f479b928f08767dd7f1044e#block-5f479b928f08767dd7f1044e The Scottish performance is thus (22% of 75%) 30% better. Continue reading Scotland’s contact tracing teams perform massive 30% better than those in England.

As with the contact tracing statistics (99.7%), the Scottish Government is obliged to wait until the statistics are shown to be reliable but in the preceding weeks or months the opposition parties and allies in the trade unions are regularly platformed (above) in Scotland’s NoMedia calling for the facts yesterday. Today, the First Minister was in a position to reveal the facts about testing of those of school age. As with the contact tracing statistics, the results cast serious doubt on the media frenzy (above) as it we find that 97.7% of 17 500 tests came back negative ie not … Continue reading As 97.7% of kids test negative, teachers’ fears of infection have been amplified by noise from opposition politicians and union pals

This has to be a first! In the world of Brian Monteith, John McClelland and Brian Wilson, near the letters pages saturated with the rancid lies of the likes of Professor Stevenson and Scotland in Union’s writing team, Professor Sridhar appears to put things into perspective as an academic should. Once in a red, white and blue moon, the Scotsman publishes something true. It’s not the top story of course. Celtic crashing out of Europe is clearly more important than our 700 000 school pupils in a time of pandemic. You’ll want to read the whole thing so only a … Continue reading ‘Scotland’s school children are among the world’s lucky ones’

In a stunning moment of clarity and honesty, on GMS yesterday, BBC Scotland’s Political Editor told listeners: The thing to bear in mind is they [GERS]were first published in 1992 in John Major as Prime Minister and [the vampiric] Ian Lang as Scottish Secretary and yes I covered that news conference. The point is that although they are statistical calculations, from the very outset they had a political purpose at that time. It was designed to undermine what was seen as a drive toward Scottish self-government. It’s long been apparent that Taylor’s intellectual vanity might one day betray BBC Scotland’s … Continue reading SHOCK: BBC’s Brian Taylor tells listeners that GERS is anti-Independence propaganda. It is too

Sixteen people died in the last 24 hours, in England, from coronavirus infection. At the beginning of August around 13 people were dying directly from coronavirus infection every day. By today the 7 day average has dropped to 10. Over the last 30 days more than 300 have died. The BBC in England does not report this. Indeed, they rarely report the pandemic at all. In Scotland, below, and almost every day in recent weeks, rising infection levels and especially any ‘linked to‘ schools have been in the headlines. Yesterday, the first deaths for six weeks headlined in Scotland. The … Continue reading The 300 deaths BBC England dare not report

In an letter published as clickbait in the Herald, retired Edinburgh University professor and member of the Scotland in Union covert letter writing group suggests: Now even the kids know that the money used to furlough Scottish workers was borrowed and did not come from taxpayers in any part of the UK. Scottish taxation will be used to pay back our share. Like Ireland or Denmark, an independent Scotland could have borrowed too. Had Scotland been independent over a longer period, of course, she would not have needed to borrow at all, safe in the massive savings from oil wealth … Continue reading Professor of German History says English taxpayers saved Scotland