From National quarterly report of tuberculosis in Scotland Provisional data for quarter 2, 2026, the above graph and: There were 125 TB notifications. TB notifications decreased by 21.9% when compared with quarters 1–2 2025 when there were 160 TB notifications. The percentage of TB notifications that were male was 65.6% compared with 59.4% in quarters 1–2 2025.  Source: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/national-quarterly-report-of-tuberculosis-in-scotland/national-quarterly-report-of-tuberculosis-in-scotland-quarter-2-2026/ TB is far more common in England than in Scotland: Using the most recent full-year rates as a baseline (provisional 2025/2024 data, as 2026 annual rates are not yet published): England’s rate is approximately 1.8–2.0 times Scotland’s rate. Early 2026 case numbers are … Continue reading Better resourced NHS Scotland sees only half the TB numbers

By Liz S “The Scotsman today quotes a Labour MSP saying ‘Our islands have been let down, time and again, by the SNP “. Well when I read this I automatically thought this: Scotland , as a nation, has been “let down time and time again” by the Labour party (that is the Labour party at all political levels). Mind you Scotland has also been “let down time and time again” by the so called (but clearly not) ‘Scotsman’ newspaper as well. (Other rags that are also distributed within Scotland, who have the audacity to add “Scottish” before the titles of their papers names, are also guilty … Continue reading Scotland, as a nation, has been “let down time and time again” by the Labour party in Scotland

As the Herald today, campaigns on behalf of private landlords desiring socialism (government-aid) for them but capitalism for their customers, here’s what the Scottish Government is doing, sensibly and ethically, with your taxes: Full text at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=build+to+rent Continue reading Herald campaigns on behalf of private landlords desiring socialism for them but capitalism for you

Once more, many thanks to the several readers who have sent us ‘inside info‘ on this. Briefly, I should note a repeated claim by several readers that the unusual decision to locate next to a sewage works and to reject the Cowglen site, popular with campaigners, was due to Labour’s favouring of business interests, donors perhaps, who wanted to build houses and make a lot of money on the Cowglen site. AI can find no evidence for this. We have previously presented extracts from the expert witness Allan Bennett, initially shocked by the decision to locate the new Southern General … Continue reading The bacterial infections linked by media to cancer deaths at ‘troubled Glasgow super-hospital’ were due to Labour’s ‘astonishing’ decision to build it near a raw sewage works