Here’s the evidence that the New Southern General is ‘sick’: Molly told BBC Reporting Scotland: “That building itself is sick.” No one doubts the sincerity of Molly but we must doubt the validity of one person’s opinion in the judgement of the performance of a complex massive system. BBC Scotland, had they any journalistic principles, should share those doubts and refrain from this kind of trashy headlining. Sadly, this is a preference, a sickness in Pacific Quay, to use single cases based on one person’s subjective experience and often the all-too-natural suspicions of parents that more might have been done to … Continue reading BBC Scotland is morbidly relying on single cases using mere opinion to harm NHS Scotland BEFORE an inquiry

Readers will the remember this kind of reporting and the faux-empathy shouted by the likes of Carlaw and Leonard. In Scotland, this evidence of it’s rebuttal by reliable evidence did not appear in ‘our’ media though it had in England: I think it’s very difficult not to see that the only real way that this can have come into our homes is through staff picking it up, just through the community contacts they would have had. Absent from BBC Scotland’s coverage but covered by BBC UK where the Conservative Party leadership is preferred but feared target, this report clarifies the role … Continue reading Why were hospital discharges into care homes only dangerous in Scotland?

In the wake of BBC Scotland’s Disclosure series misrepresenting the deaths in Scotland’s care homes: [https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/07/28/alert-bbc-scotland-disclosure-tonight-on-care-homes-likely-to-miss-the-point/], the excellent MSM_Monitor has drawn attention to the clearly different agendas of BBC Wales under Labour and BBC Scotland under the SNP. I was reminded of previous examples and the value of building up a portfolio of the evidence to counter the defence of it being accidental. So, working backward, see this from April 1st 2020 and note the choice of image they have chosen to associate with the covid-19 deaths: Depoliticised in Labour Wales. Politicised and demonising in SNP Scotland. On the 30th … Continue reading How BBC Wales offers us clear evidence of BBC Scotland’s anti-Scottish bias

With new infections in England stalling at around 700 per day, 20 times higher per capita than in Scotland and only just below the average in Spain, and with deaths stalling at more than 60 per day, compared to zero in Scotland, the Conservative Government has recognised defeat and has jumped at the Scottish First Minister’s offer of a ‘shared approach.’ Though the BBC Scotland report is not on the UK or England websites, the UK Government’s feelings are protected by the headline and opening sentences but it soon becomes clear what is happening here: Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon … Continue reading Sturgeon persuades failed UK Government to U-turn on Covid strategy

By Brenda Steele: Many of those who come to this site are probably regular viewers of the ScotGov Coronavirus briefings and have watched the FM handle a hostile press. Quite clearly the objective of many questions is fodder for shrieking Sturgeon/SNPBaaad headlines. Nicola Sturgeon is not the only target. WHO also has press briefings. WHO officials are subjected to very similar treatment for the same tawdry motives. The briefings can be found at: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/media-resources/press-briefings I only began watching recently, but at each one I have detected what can only be described as fishing expeditions.  The briefing of 27 July is … Continue reading UK press goes fishing in Edinburgh and Geneva – catches crab in both locations

The UK 7 day average infection level is 677, so around 625 for England but climbing. The 7 day average for Scotland is 14.6 and falling to 3 in the last 24 hours. England, population is 10 times larger than Scotland so, all things being equal would have 30 cases but has, today 616! Professor Sridhar explains what we must do now to preserve this achievement Continue reading Covid infection level in England more than 200 times higher than Scotland and 20 times higher per head of population

In marked contrast with Professor Sridhar helping to shape and to disseminate Scotland’s zero tolerance approach to the virus, Professor Bobby Duffy and PA Director, Kelly Beaver of King’s College London are conspicuously silent on the diverging strategies in the four parts of the ‘UK’ that for them is just England. My attention was drawn to this in an email today: Bill makes the points clearly and has promised to share any response with us. When you see the latest data, you feel sure Prof Duffy must know of this: Continue reading Are King’s College researchers uncomfortable with Scotland’s covid-19 success?

On tonight at 10.45pm, BBC Scotland’s troubled Disclosure series investigates the deaths in Scottish care homes. Based on this quite extensive (1 400 words) taster on the website it seems there will be several fundamental flaws. First, the methodology is a big problem. Only 3 out of Scotland’s more than 1 100 care homes feature in a study based heavily on anecdotal evidence from only 3 relatives. We are not told how these 3 were selected. The shadow of Labour’s Monica Lennon is there in the background as a likely source. Second, all 3 care homes were privately owned yet … Continue reading ALERT: BBC Scotland Disclosure tonight on care homes likely to miss the point

I wrote yesterday, to Donalda MacKinnon, outgoing but still in Director of BBC Scotland, to complain about the Good Morning Scotland [GMS] broadcasts of 25th and 26th July 2020: Tuesday 27th July 2020 I write directly, to make three complaints of serious breaches of the BBC editorial guidelines, in two broadcasts. The BBC online complaints system allows neither the capacity nor the speed of response required by these serious and extensive matters. a) GMS 25th July The programme on 25th July featured an interview with Ben Nimmo of ‘Graphica’ at approximately 9.40am presented as an authority on Russian “interference” in … Continue reading From Russia with Leask: Good Morning Scotland and Interference after 2014

As Scotland’s 7 day average for new covid infections per day falls to 14.6 and England’s sits stubbornly at more than 700 [5 times higher per head of population], Professor Sridhar has drawn our attention to the appalling official acceptance, on 20th May, of a figure of 1 000, approved by the UK Government’s Joint Biosecurity Centre. She tweeted today: The willingness to accept this level of infection with the death, trauma and longer-term suffering it brings, reveals the callous indifference of a ruling elite confident that the poor, the weak, and the disabled will suffer most. The contrast with … Continue reading SHOCK: UK Government comfortable with 1 000 new covid cases per day