Labour’s Monica Lennon in cahoots with the Herald’s Tom Gordon attempt to undermine Scottish Government policy in the face of overwhelming support for both it, the First Minister and the SNP. The statistics they use do not indicate, crucially, whether or not these patients were infected before or after admission. The headlines are, as they stand, lies. Even if there was evidence for the claims, these deaths would make up, according to Gordon, only 5.6% of all coronavirus deaths. The figure for England is estimated at nearly 20%. The unreliability of the data make a call for an inquiry just … Continue reading Pathetic political opportunism to score points over SNP with unreliable death statistics

In Energy Voice today: We are seeing the first green shoots of the economic recovery we can make along Scotland’s east coast through new offshore wind projects. Seagreen will create around 400 jobs during construction and will deliver an estimated £1 billion-plus in economic benefits to Scotland and the UK. Much of that economic benefit as well as those jobs will be in Angus, including high quality, full-time jobs that will work out of Montrose Port to service the wind farm throughout its 25-year lifetime. Construction will start next year, and when it’s completed in 2022/23, Seagreen will be Scotland’s single … Continue reading Massive new Scottish offshore windfarm to create 400 jobs and power 1 million homes

In Insider today: Simon Capaldi, office agency partner at Knight Frank Edinburgh, puts it succinctly: “Edinburgh has fast become the best location for tech companies in the UK, with the exception of London and perhaps Cambridge. “That’s reflected in the high quality of businesses being set up or choosing to locate here, ranging from newly formed fintech start-ups to established businesses which are scaling rapidly. Many of them are emerging from Codebase or spinning out from the city’s eight universities and colleges.” Indeed, West Central Edinburgh boasts a remarkable collection of tech businesses and a now well-established ecosystem that supports … Continue reading ‘Edinburgh has fast become the best location for tech companies’

In the Herald today, based on Scottish Government figures released ‘after being pressed by the Herald’ (Don’t snigger): It also means six per cent of all of Scotland’s confirmed Covid cases first became ill in hospital after being admitted for a different reason. A quick search finds these NHS England figures in the Guardian on 17th May: Up to 20% of hospital patients with Covid-19 caught it at hospital. Up to a fifth of patients with Covid-19 in several hospitals contracted the disease over the course of the pandemic while already being treated there for another illness, NHS bosses have told senior doctors … Continue reading Herald’s Tom Gordon reveals hospital-acquired coronavirus cases in NHS England THREE TIMES higher than in NHS Scotland

There are times when I think why go like on this? All our readers are ‘woke’ to the lies, distortion and mere clickbait being generated by some Herald writers with a Unionist agenda. Then someone writes to say thanks for enabling them to see what’s going on, so I think, one new convert every week or so is still worth it. Today, Tom Gordon, who surely knows what he’s doing, employs the ‘after’ word to imply that Scottish hospitals have failed their patients and irresponsibly scare your granny before she’s admitted for that long-needed hip operation . Reporting Scotland loved … Continue reading Herald writer, sick ‘after’ years of moral corrosion-virus rampaging through his soul, undermines trust in hospitals

By stewartb: Coverage of coronavirus has dominated the news media for months. It’s important. However, almost hidden from view in Scotland – away from much public comment or scrutiny – there are important negotiations being conducted elsewhere to decide the relationship the UK (and by extension, Scotland) will have with the EU after the Brexit transition period. The issue of Brexit, once so controversial and so prominent, is now at best under camouflage in Scotland. And if we wait too long to expose it, will we discover too late that its former potency has evaporated? In a Scottish context, it … Continue reading BREXIT …. don’t let the camouflage fool you!

Leaving aside the YouGov/Hanbury poll in February, we have three Yes leads, two clear at 3%, two tied and one marginal No lead at 1%, in March. The latest poll from YouGov for James Kelly, with fieldwork between 28 May and 5 June gives Yes a 3 point lead of 52% to 48%, with the undecided removed. Detail and analysis at: http://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2020/06/scot-goes-pop-panelbase-poll-yes-storms.html Continue reading Only 1 in 6 Independence polls in 2020 gives No a lead (1%)

Referring to the SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) members failure to consider the findings of the exercise, Professor Sridhar, chair of public health at Edinburgh University , said: It feels like a lost opportunity…On the positive side it’s good that these exercises were conducted, because it meant that they were thinking beyond flu, they were thinking about coronaviruses. But on the negative side it’s surprising, it seems that SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) members were unaware or at least didn’t discuss this exercise in their thinking in January or February, which would have been crucial in making steps to actually … Continue reading English scientists’ Anglo-centrism as they ignore lessons from Scottish coronavirus simulation in 2018

Noting the dread prof’s appearance on Question Time, ‘Rosie Andrew’ sent me this from a Wings over Scotland source: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-green-ink-gang/ This letter-writing group organised by Scotland in Union is essentially a covert propaganda unit, clearly aware of the need to keep their existence secret. They are writing to journalists, hoping to influence them and readers, pretending to be simply members of the public, honest citizens, if you like. I don’t know about the legality of such practice but it’s clearly anti-democratic. Prof Pennington was the founder of Academics Together in the run-up to the the 2014 referendum, is a founding … Continue reading The BBC’s favourite bug scientist and the dirty tricks of his rarely-mentioned anti-independence activist group

I’m a long-term and genuine admirer of the work of Wings, especially in the years around 2014 when they were surely the major force in the online and paper-based, Yes campaign but it seems that they now share the view that the Scottish government has not done so well in handling the pandemic. This puts Wings in the same company as the FT, the Guardian, Common Weal, Tom Gordon, Iain Macwhirter and Jackson Carlaw! From 3rd June: Anyone, of course, is entitled to an opinion about anything they like. And it certainly seems to be the case that the Scottish … Continue reading More than a ‘minor confusion?’ Does Wings now share the opinions of the Herald’s Mark Smith?