Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland continues to give firework offences daily reporting in anticipation of serious problems, which last year’s huge decline and Police Scotland activity for this year, suggest that more reductions are likely. Some BBC Reporting Scotland reporting so far has deliberately ignored the lower 2024 data and even stated that the higher 2023 data was ‘last year!’ Here are the facts, from Police Scotland, that BBC Scotland chooses not to tell you. Assistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, Gold Commander for Operation Moonbeam, said: “Last year, following Bonfire Night, I reflected on what was a successful policing … Continue reading Fireworks-related incidents – the falling trend and police confidence information being denied Reporting Scotland’s older, sensible viewers

Professor John Robertson OBA I know, I know – small sample, self-selecting and open to abuse but, nevertheless, a useful counter to the media reporting even the inspection report, based on interviews in the unit over the space of only two days then reported with no measure of how many held different views or reported different experiences on the day. I make no great claims for this survey but I insist it is superior to the evidently very small-scale survey carried out by the inspectors over just two days and which has been used as the basis for high profile … Continue reading Maternity care experience at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – 90% felt it was very good or good

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to ArtyHetty for alerting me to this. From the Orkney Times, yesterday. Petrofac, one of Aberdeen’s largest employers has entered administration. A statement released by the company on 27 October stated: Having carefully assessed its options, and the impact of TenneT’s decision to terminate Petrofac’s scope of work on the 2GW programme in the Netherlands, the Directors of Petrofac Limited (the Group’s ultimate holding company) have applied to the High Court of England and Wales to appoint administrators to Petrofac Limited. Not in the MSM coverage, only in the Orkney Times and here, despite being … Continue reading Junior Minister, Michael Shanks’s lies fully exposed but only in the Orkney Times and here as 2 000 jobs in the North of Scotland are put at risk

of the UK’s busiest maternity units, claiming staff shortages and a culture of mistrust led to patients being harmed. Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland is headlining today: Damning report finds ‘culture of mistrust’ at maternity unit – Staffing shortages and a “culture of mistrust” led to delays and patients being harmed at one of the busiest maternity units in the UK, a review has found. Healthcare Improvement Scotland‘s report based on a one/two day visit to the maternity unit in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh does say the same things but among more positive statements and nowhere does it … Continue reading Police have investigated over 1 000 avoidable baby deaths in NHS England, none in Edinburgh and none in Scotland where ‘maternity failings’ pay-outs are tellingly less than half, per head, those in England

Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland’s top stories today, on their website and on their broadcast news, but there’s something missing. This, from the Scottish Government only yesterday afternoon: New figures show NHS waiting lists have fallen and waits of more than a year have reduced for the fourth month in a row. When compared with August 2025, September saw a 7.3% decrease in new outpatient waits longer than a year – this number has now fallen for four consecutive months. The total waiting list for outpatients has decreased by 2.0% on the same month last year, and the inpatient … Continue reading For BBC Scotland neither a falling murder rate nor falling NHS Scotland waiting times as the gap widens further with UK Labour’s climbing ones, are ‘news’ for you