The Conservative’s Islands Campaign continued today with Chancellor Sunak avoiding those nasty urban Scots and following the PM’s strategy, to avoid getting shouted at by locals. Yes Bute were caught off-guard at first but rallied to send him back homeward to think again of becoming PM. In true nasty party style, his motorcade jumped the queue leaving locals stranded. A source told us that his car had a bumper sticker reading: ‘Eat my dust, peasants!‘ There is of course irony in his visiting Rothesay, a placed which welcomed more Syrian refugees than his constituents would have allowed. Continue reading Imperial Master Sunak jumps the queue leaving locals stranded!

Any wean can add up wee numbers to make a bigger one for a headline. Any wean doing Media Studies or not doing Media Studies will know that numbers add up to nothing unless you put them in context. They don’t, of course. Editor [92] to Conor [18]: 216? Is that a lot? Do you think the figure for England might be interesting? You’ve heard lots about Scotland not doing any better so how many infections did they have in the last 7 days? Cub Reporter, Conor [18]: The 7 day average was 832 cases last week and they’ve got … Continue reading Despite Aberdeen’s attempt to copy Bournemouth beach, infection rate in England still nearly THREE times higher than in Scotland

I haven’t read it. Why the..would I? I have enough worries of my own. Since his far from-convincing conversion from rabid British Nationalism to support for Scottish independence, many have watched him with a jaundiced eye. I’m taking pills for it. I haven’t written about him for over a year but it all stands: McKenna has been very active in the last few days [July 21] with today’s George Robertson/Gandalf-like suggestion, in the Observer, that a ‘dark presence has come to possess this [SNP] party.’ In the same piece we read: ‘Some of their [SNP] candyfloss policies can drive you round the twist.’ Leaving … Continue reading Kevin McKenna surfaces again to remind us where his priorities lie

In May, BBC Scotland, the MSM and opposition politicians were positively drooling over this: More than 2,000 coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if Scotland had locked down two weeks earlier, according to a new study. A team of epidemiological scientists at University of Edinburgh produced the findings, which feature in a BBC Disclosure investigation. They suggest the death rate in Scotland could have been reduced by about 80% with earlier action. Where is the Disclosure team now? Has this kind of image below been spotted by them? I feel sure they’re watching the Scotland row but have stopped at … Continue reading Coronavirus: Following a UK-wide strategy would have caused 200 more deaths in Scotland in last 30 days

From Alasdair Macdonald The SQA ‘Technical Report – National Qualifications 2020 Awarding — Methodology Report’ requires a fair bit of concentration and close examination of the data to comprehend it fully. My feeling is that in these unique and unprecedented circumstances, the SQA has done its job as fairly as it could and has erred slightly on the side of leniency. I think that they have explored all the possibilities in some depth and have settled on a methodology which is the best that could have been done in the circumstances. The SQA staff involved have faced up to a … Continue reading ‘The SQA has done its job as fairly as it could’

By ArtyHetty: If I were that age again I’d be absolutely bloody livid at the ‘injustice’ that is England’s Brexit being wrought on my country, most likely where my parents voted to remain so as to secure an internationalist, economically healthy, safe future, now being removed from right under my feet. In fact the chains won’t be because of the SNP, or the SQA or whoever they want to blame, but will be secured tight around their ankles due to having no opportunities, no prospects and definitely no chance of FOM therefore studying and/or working in 27 other countries available … Continue reading Weans’ World 3: Protest that, weans!!

By stewartb: I have now examined in some depth the SQA document ‘Technical Report – National Qualifications 2020 Awarding — Methodology Report’ (August 2020). I’m no expert but it seems to be very thorough. It also seems to be using principles and methods of standardisation in line with England and also those by the Labour-controlled government in Wales. (So class discrimination by Labour in Wales too?) The biggest difference is (still) between the permissive (open to all) appeals process in Scotland and the more restricted one being used in England. How many of those protesting – or stoking protest – … Continue reading Weans’ World 2: SNP/SQA methodology same as in Con England and Lab Wales

Less than 100 of the thousands supposedly mad-as-hell weans turned up in George Square today to demand that their favourite teachers’ affectionate estimates be counted at face value by the SQA The Tusker has decided not to make too much of the fact that the weans mis-spelled ‘weans’ as ‘wains’. It’s derived from ‘wee ane‘ (little-one). ‘Wain’ is Old English for a cart (the Haywain, constable?) or perhaps a bandwagon of the kind some are climbing on at the moment. Hopefully these weans will feel better after a bit of outdoor protest and be ready to go back and ask … Continue reading Scheme wains should be more appealing weans!

I don’t think we need those inverted commas do we? I think we’re all agreed that the Deputy Labour Leader in Scotland revealed a dark and dim nature. In the Times today: Scottish Labour’s deputy leader has been criticised for an “unbelievably out of touch” tweet suggesting Aberdeen’s lockdown was a deliberate diversion from controversy over exam results and Covid-19 deaths. Baillie is either clinically paranoid or is so desperate to gain ground by whatever means on the SNP, she thought this was a good idea. She has previous. In 2017, she imagined that Richard Leonard had been in a plot to … Continue reading Coronavirus in Scotland: Jackie Baillie should be ashamed for diversion claim

Writing in the Scotsman for the umpteenth time, Prof Pennington, bacteriologist and former expert in toxic spam sannies, drops the prof to seem like a different guy and, as ever, makes no mention of his membership of Scotland in Union‘s sneak covert writing group committed to retaining the Union by tricking letter editors and readers. He’s back on the care home deaths in the first phase of the epidemic when his beloved UK and it’s SAGE advisory group delayed lock-down, on advice that care homes had little to worry about, and so allowed the wave of death in April and … Continue reading Transparent Failure 2: The Scotland in Union covert writing group Prof pretends to be Joe Public again on care home deaths