Opening with an attempt to seem erudite but coming across as more Araldite, Wilson just repeats the same old fibs about the responsibility for the Covid-19 deaths and tries as Miles Briggs did earlier to pin it on the SNP. The stuff about Marshal McLuhan could not be more dated and revealing. Using that old right-wing moralist and late convert to Catholicism, like Wilson’s old boss, Tony Blair, tells you just where Wilson’s mind is these days. So, apologies to those who’ve seen this already but here’s them facts again: Responsibility for the ‘failure to protect care home residents‘ can … Continue reading SHOCK: Brian Wilson pretends his fake new is not fake news

Tory MP Anthony Higginbotham has come out ….as a Tory!…..no as a member of the Conservative Union Research Group! Just as the European Research Group promoted the European Union, so they will promote the strength of Great Britain. What the ERG was against the EU but the CURG is in favour of the UK? Why? Anyhoo as Higginbottom often says, here’s a grand idea to do just that: Let’s teach the history of each nation in schools! Too late! In my time in teacher education (84 to 04), I saw weans in Cumnock learning about Henry 8th, heard of bairns … Continue reading Forward to 1968! Tory MP applauds the history education I suffered half a century ago

When I saw that headline, I naturally assumed that, as in the New South Wales / Victoria border control arrangements, North-West England politicians had told their people not to go infecting Scotland and that the Scottish First Minister had offered to police the border so as to allow English forces to concentrate their resources in their own communities. Not so. Risking another Tory rebuke, the FM has said: I strongly advise anyone planning to travel to areas affected in the north of England, or anyone planning to travel to Scotland from those same areas, to cancel their plans. Locals have … Continue reading Tensions inflamed as Scots politician tries to tell English what they can and cannot do

They rebuked her here, they rebuked her there, they rebuked her everywhere. Hell hath no fury like a Unionist able to join in a pile-on to rebuke the First Minister. Had she used the stats she used, in an essay for me, I’d have advised a qualifying statement or two to explain their provenance but rebuking? No. No rebuking here. However, since then, the Tusker’s own statistician, Dr Mark Mycard has rebuked her, before I could stop him, because she has seriously understated the extend to which the infection level in other parts of the UK is higher than that … Continue reading Updated: Cybernat statistician ‘rebukes’ Sturgeon for understating Covid-19 gap with ‘England’

Maybe it does not pay to disrespect the status quo? I didn’t fully understand the surge in readers to 400 000 plus in May and remain unsure as to why they have fallen in number over the last two months, to not quite 300 000. What do you think, team? We’re still in the pink, imperial pink, with a global presence or ‘world service’ to please the uncritical eye. Barrhead Travel, Good Morning Scotland and a Spook attracted readers. If you wrote something for us and want to know how many you got, let me know. Will we consolidate at … Continue reading Down down deeper and down? The July Statistics

Foreword: I have invited this report from Jane Lax after I wrongly accused her of being a member of the undemocratic Scotland in Union letter-writing group and of having shared her letter with a known member of the group so that he could copy it and send it to a different newspaper. I have apologised unreservedly for any damage I may have done to her reputation. Jane has taken up my offer to write a piece for the Tusker defending the Union. Readers are of course invited to respond but to focus entirely on the issues raised and to use … Continue reading Has Covid-19 ended the SNP dream of independence?

Only the members of the current extreme right Conservative Government have the sociopathic gall to try to blame others for their every sin. Responsibility for the ‘failure to protect care home residents‘ can be laid at three ‘doors’ and none are in Edinburgh. First, the UK Conservative Government with it’s callous ideological attachment to a herd immunity strategy, later denied but then replaced with a willingness to let the virus circulate in the community, to let the elderly, the sick and the poor be culled or after Boris, to ‘take it on the chin’, to protect the economy, and the … Continue reading Miles Brigg’s party, their not-so-immune herd of SAGE advisers and private care home donors and owners should be charged over the avoidable deaths

Today in one of his typically shambolic briefings, the PM announced that the ONS estimates that there are now 4 900 new infections each day in England. The 7 day average in Scotland is now 13.9 new cases per day. I’m not aware of any NRS estimates doubting that: https://spice-spotlight.scot/2020/07/29/coronavirus-covid-19-in-scotland/ Scotland has one tenth of the population so scaling the rate here up you might expect 140 for England but it’s 4 500, 35 times higher! Continue reading PM reports infection rate in England is 35 times higher than in Scotland

From Insider, today: Sentiment amongst Scottish businesses is showing signs of improvement as lockdown restrictions begin to ease, according to a survey of Scottish companies. The Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Business Monitor, produced with the Fraser of Allander Institute, also found that the volume of business activity is expected to recover significantly over the rest of the year, despite the economic uncertainty. and: However, there is encouragement to be found in the survey data. Nearly half of companies say they expect no change to their workforces and 61% of companies described their cashflow position as secure or very secure for the … Continue reading Business activity expected to recover significantly