You can choose either the Zero Tolerance for Covid Gang, above or the Take it on the Chin, Grandad Herd, below: What will it be? Five Alpha males or one guy with four women – easy? Continue reading Choose one of these teams to trust with your life

By Contrary: After watching an analysis by Professor John Robertson (full title because this is his profession) of the media coverage of the 2014 Independence Referendum again, I was reflecting on how interesting the bit about how the BBC and other media personified the independence movement: by constantly referring to ‘Alex Salmond’s referendum’ so they could attack the person, not the group or the idea. Interesting that that’s what a lot of the independence movement seem to be doing to themselves now with Nicola Sturgeon. I just wonder if that’s through choice, copying behaviour or through malign influence, that is, are … Continue reading On the personification of the Independence Movement

On Good Morning Scotland this morning at 9.40, Ben Nimmo was interviewed as Director of Investigations, @Graphika_NYC. This is no doubt accurate, but Nimmo is also known widely to be active in the undemocratic sometimes covert groups working to undermine the SNP and the Yes movement. Nimmo was listed as a senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft on 25 November 2018: http://archive.ph/Df5eb and of the related Integrity Initiative, responsible for wrongly identifying SNP supporters as acting on behalf of Russia. I’m not competent to write more on this but Craig Murray has done so fully: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/12/cui-bono-david-leask-ben-nimmo-and-the-attack-on-ordinary-scottish-nationalists/ My concerns here, once more, … Continue reading Good Morning Scotland interviews an anti-SNP ‘spook’ presented as an honest researcher

After plummeting to around 12 000, in the early days of the outbreak, attendances at Scotland’s A&E departments have climbed back toward the former average level, around 25 000 per week. Unsurprisingly, performance at the start of the outbreak began to hit the 95% target but, though attendance has since doubled, that performance is holding. NHS England, though experiencing similar decreases and a recent recovery in demand, has not managed to hit the target with, at best, 91.2% in May 2020: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2020-21/ Continue reading Emergency attendances double but performance holds at 95% target

SiU regular David Bone, third row down and three from the right, appears in the Herald yesterday to praise the Union: It’s not the content that matters so much, given its quality. It’s the fact that Bone is a member of an activist group writing to the media but pretending to be honest citizens and with an explicit commitment to deceive both journalists and readers. Bone and another regular, Allan Sutherland were together in the Herald only two weeks ago. The letter editor knows who and what they are. Sutherland was a caller to Kaye Adams on the same day. … Continue reading Scotland in Union’s secret letter writing group in the Herald again posing as honest citizens

It’s there, down a bit. The Herald speaks truth to power! There it is, at the bottom, in the middle. I suppose it’s not ‘SNP MSP’s PA accuses him of masturbating in Holyrood toilets‘ is it? England seems ‘content’ with certain level of deaths everyday, Professor Devi Sridhar suggests It’s a headline story if ever there was one but it’s a bit too ‘strong’ for the editor. Carlaw and Fraser would make his life hell at the golf club. In the Herald yesterday, if out of the way there, the kind of brutally honest assessment you tend only to get … Continue reading An American in the UK telling it like it is and it is bloody but she’s pushed well down the page

This morning and repeated every 30 minutes on BBC Breakfast: There are worries that the system being used ot work out this years exam results could leave pupils at a disadvantage. End of year exams were cancelled for the first time in history because of the pandemic. Instead grades will be made up of teachers’ predictions checked by the Scottish Qualifications authority. There are also concerns that the usual backup plan of appeals will not be as effective. The SQA has said that it will only moderate estimates where necessary to make sure results are fair across the country. Then … Continue reading Worries over BBC Scotland’s lack of evidence of worries in schools

Desperately clinging on to memories of Scotland’s trauma in the early days of the outbreak and using that to lie every day in an effort to cover the blood on his hands, a Prime Minister is content with a 634 to 1 disadvantage in death. I know it’s ‘only’ 63.4 to 1 when you take England’s 10 times larger population into account but that is not done in comparisons with the USA or Brazil and, in the context of mass deaths, does the per capita calculation make things OK? Continue reading 634 more deaths every day is superficial only if you’re contented and superficial yourself

All day yesterday, all across the UK and Scottish media, we heard the question ‘Yes, but has Scotland really handled the outbreak better?‘ with doubts about the reality, based on evidence of the total death level due to the 4 Nations approach and not the more recent levels due to the three months of Scottish Government and popular actions. YouGov’s poll yesterday, suggests the media misinformation has been less influential than many of us feared. In every part of the UK, a majority believe that Scotland has done better. Is that because they can access the actual data in social … Continue reading Every part of UK believes Scotland has handled outbreak better despite media spin suggesting it’s just SNP spin