Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above, and: Overworked police lack the resources, time and experience to investigate crimes properly, leading to victims being failed and an erosion in faith in law enforcement, an official report has found. The report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) says that the rate of positive outcomes – when police identify a suspect and they face justice – has crashed from 25% in England and Wales a decade ago to 11% in 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/27/police-too-overworked-to-investigate-crimes-properly-england-wales-northern-ireland Predictably, when I see that kind of thing, then like a tennis beginner frantically … Continue reading ‘Police in England, Wales and NI too overworked to investigate crimes properly’ – Any word on Scotland with 28% more officers?

BBC Fife, above have no time for this, below: The local press, The Courier, does but is keeping things low-key. You have to read on for this: A former Labour councillor in Fife has pled not guilty to allegations he groomed a teenage girl over a period of a year. David Graham, of Grieve Street in Methilhill, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court and denied the trio of charges he faces. The 42-year-old is alleged to have communicated indecently with the teenager and coerced her to view sexual images, to have engaged in unlawful sexual activity with her and to have … Continue reading Labour councillor to stand trial on grooming charges is not big news if your task is to protect Labour

By stewartb In an ideal world, actions could be taken which would lead to the elimination of all medical errors in hospital settings. This would of course deprive Mr Sarwar of one of his favoured political ploys  viz. the use of the ‘salient exemplar’. Unionist politicians commenting on Scotland favour a tactic that seeks to exploit the built-in tendency of the human brain to conflate the aberrant with the norm. Mr Sarwar – aided and abetted by a supportive mainstream media that favours the avoidance of context, perspective and positivity when reporting Scotland – is well practised at this.  From Psychology … Continue reading In Wales, 25 children were given 10 times the correct dose in just two years but they don’t seem to have an Anas Sarwar to creepily take advantage of the family

oversight of this hospital for a long period of time. Professor John Robertson OBA Above, Anas Sarwar trying to fabricate a wider hospital safety crisis out of a small number of incidents in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, with a view to attacking the SNP Government’s oversight. From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios October 2023 to September 2024, published on 11 February 2025, QEUH had a lower than average Standardised Mortality Ratio, at 0.93, than the Scottish average of 1.0. 15 hospitals had a worse ratio of more than 1.0.1 If an HSMR value for a hospital is less than one, … Continue reading This is a safer than average hospital being used by Anas Sarwar to gaslight you

Imasge – Sustrans Professor John Robertson OBA, former schoolteacher, Education lecturer, researcher and Associate Dean for Quality Assurance From Teacher census supplementary statistics1, published yesterday, the ratio of pupils to teachers in Scottish schools, in 2024, was: How does this compare with other parts of the UK? In Northern Ireland (17.4), England (18.1), and Wales (18.6).2 These are marked differences suggesting a very different experience for pupils and teachers in Scotland and it works. Don’t let the inexpert but loud tell you otherwise. Get some facts here: Sources: Footnote – Why don’t I defend these facts on the BBC or … Continue reading It’s a very different experience for pupils and teachers in Scotland and it works. Don’t let the inexpert but loud tell you otherwise. Get the facts here

Professor John Robertson OBA, former schoolteacher, Education lecturer and Associate Dean for Quality Assurance In February 2025, BBC Scotland platformed an Audit Scotland report which they characterised as a ‘Failure to plan’ over soaring pupil support needs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q1wyeevvgo Also, of course, they allowed the Conservative and Labour education spokespersons to use the report to accuse the Scottish Government of a ‘shameful failure.’ They did not offer any facts or figures such as these below, or the previous year’s version of them. From School support staff statistics, published yesterday, we can see that between 2018 and 2024, there was: Now, some … Continue reading As BBC and Audit Scotland accuse SNP Government of a ‘failure to plan’ for ‘soaring’ pupil support needs why didn’t they mention that there are now THREE TIMES as many Behaviour Support staff and 24% more Pupil Support Assistants?

Professor John Robertson OBA In the last 5 years of the Labour/Lib Dem government, from 2002 to 2007, only 371 homes for affordable rent were built. In the last 5 years of the SNP Government, 2019 to 2024, 18 215 were built. That’s an astonishing contrast, 49.1 times as many, revealing clearly that the SNP, on this as on so many matters, has replaced the Labour Party as the party of the people. Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-statistics-for-scotland-new-house-building/ Continue reading SNP now building nearly 50 times as many affordable homes as in last days of Labour