The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily, finishing on 28 February, to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS The Record today with another single case of supposed NHS failure then generalised and politicised to mislead readers and viewers. On January 21, BBC Scotland tried the same … Continue reading Daily Record’s putrid reporting to exploit one baby death to mislead on the country with the cleanest hospitals and the lowest stillbirth rate in the UK

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily, finishing in 10 days, to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS This is an old story now – the idea than Anas Sarwar would do better in the polls if it wasn’t for Sir Keir Starmer’s policies. It’s hard … Continue reading Sir Prof John Curtice – How can Anas Sarwar be more popular than the PM when Scottish Labour are far less popular than even UK Labour?

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS Getting lots of TV coverage and in the Times & Star today: Reintroducing wolves could expand woodland areas and reduce CO2 – study – A study led by researchers at the University … Continue reading University of Leeds researchers tell us one wild wolf for every 6 600 deer in Scotland would knock around 5% of England’s carbon removal target when more trees in Yorkshire might help more

By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS The Herald today is headlining – Anger at ‘obscene’ hike in bonuses at Scottish Water, up to £330 000 in 2023-2024. Who is angry? Labour’s Richard Leonard. Good to hear he’s still around. I’ve mentioned before that responding to the Herald on numbers is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. It took seconds to get the figure for England and Wales. 12 times as much, pro rata, per head of population? £3.96m? Nope, £9.1m.1 Two to three times as much. Do the English water bosses deserve bigger bonuses? From Policy Mogul, … Continue reading Water bosses in England and Wales get two to three times as much in bonuses as Scottish Water execs despite higher cost for dirty water

50% minus 39%, as a percentage of the population of Scotland is how many hundred thousand finding it easy to get a GP appointment in SNP Scotland? Not in my practice, if I have anything to do with it! The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor … Continue reading Between 400 000 and 600 000 more patients in Scotland find it ‘easy’ or ‘very easy’ to access a GP than they would if they lived in England or Wales

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS Keir Starmer has said he is prepared to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine if there is a deal to end the war with Russia – acknowledging it could put … Continue reading Labour and Scottish soldiers dying – Will Anas Sarwar agree to Scots soldiers being sent into a deadly war zone as Baron John Reid did in Helmand 2008 and to die in greater numbers as in WWI?

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS BBC Health and BBC 1 are today reporting: The government has met a key election pledge to deliver two million extra NHS appointments in England in its first year, the prime minister … Continue reading Even the BBC cannot stomach Sir Keir’s claim to have met his measly target of only 2.4% more NHS appointments than in a period hit by 23 days of strikes – it looks more like a decrease in the light of those

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS The Edinburgh Reporter, pretty much on their own, this morning have: The Scottish Government Public Finance Minister, Ivan McKee, will issue a call-to-action to deliver system-wide change to 150 delegates attending a … Continue reading Every public service in Scotland is performing better than those in other parts of the UK

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser [closing 28 February] primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS and Global Ferry Correspondent 2025 and 2025 In the Pompey News, last week: Tensions are flaring between rival transport companies over the ferry service between Portsmouth and Jersey – with the … Continue reading Channel Island ferry service in chaos and passengers suffer as private companies fight for the contract with a ‘war of words’ and a ‘smear campaign’

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser [closing 28 February] primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Chair Faculty Research Ethics Committee, UWS and Global Ferry Correspondent 2025 and 2025 From Shetland News two days ago: SHETLAND Islands Council could order a new ferry to add much needed resilience to its aging fleet. The … Continue reading Shetland Island’s Lib Dem Council has built no new ferries for more than 20 years and has no replacements planned for its aging fleet