By Jim I’m going to hazard a guess here that drug deaths in England and Wales are every bit as bad as here in Scotland, but we can’t have mother England looking bad now can we. look at the recent BBC reporting of riots ‘Across the UK’. They cannot even own up to the racist English Nationalist problem that exists in their own backyard. They have to make out that it is the whole of the UK and not just England, the OO in Belfast who love to look for any excuse to cause trouble. The English Government, and that’s … Continue reading We can’t have mother England looking bad now can we?

Bob Lamont “Scotland’s drug deaths still worst in Europe after 12% rise” by Jonathan Geddes BBC Scotland News, and James Cook, Scotland Editor, the pivot being ” But the latest figures remain far higher than the 244 deaths in 1996 when comparable records began ” – Now just ponder that ” when comparable records began ” left hanging without reference, the art of the grifter, privy to Spanish ambassadorial emails since 2014….. Yes, Scotland has a drug problem, County Lines and BBC Scotland, both do your head in, you can’t shake off either, yet the latter appears to be protecting … Continue reading Scotland’s drug deaths and the absence of ‘comparable records’ in England

By Anonymous Sarwar’s (negligible amount of) credibility is left in tatters as a former Labour First Minister, Henry McLeish, says they, Labour at Holyrood, have no control over anything they do in Holyrood. As a former Labour First Minister he, McLeish, said that if Labour win power again at Holyrood, they will have no say over what the (Scottish) government does, and that what laws it passed would be decided by the UK Labour Prime Minister. Henry McLeish, who was First Minister for just over a year , said this in an exclusive interview on BBC Radio 4. “When I was First Minister, as … Continue reading Sarwar’s (negligible amount of) credibility is left in tatters

By Professor John Robertson OBA From 2018 to 2023, the NRS overall drug death rate trend in Scotland (above) is down after decades of increasing steadily before that. Though up on the 2022 figure, the 2023 figure is still down from 1 187 in 2018, to 1 172 in 2023, a 1.3% fall. Not much you might say but have a look at the situation across England and Wales for the same period: From 2018 to 2022, up 12%. The death rate in Scotland remains significantly higher [277 per million] but the long-term trend is down and the gap is closing, … Continue reading Scotland’s drug death trend is down but it’s soaring across the rest of the UK

BBC Scotland today is delighting in an increase in drug deaths for 2023, after a big fall in 2022 and the opportunity once more to remind us: It means Scotland continues to have a far higher rate of recorded drugs deaths than other European nations, including England and Wales. Not mentioned, this in the Sunday Mail in February 2024: Scotland is seeing an explosion of ‘county lines’ gangs forcing children and vulnerable adults to smuggle drugs to every corner of the country. The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal at least 55 gangs have been identified operating north of the … Continue reading English gangs flooding Scotland with stronger but cheaper drugs to keep drug deaths high

Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture and is one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Toronto is an international centre for business and finance. Generally considered the financial and industrial capital of Canada, Toronto has a high concentration of banks and brokerage firms. From CP24, today: An investigation into a 2022 Toronto ferry boat crash has uncovered a number of safety deficiencies that could have led to a dire situation in other circumstances. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says its investigation found a number of issues, particularly around passenger safety and emergency preparedness. The … Continue reading Affluent Toronto’s ferry sails with half the crew CalMac requires on a vessel half the size and 20 are hurt in collision but had there been a fire…..

Imagine any of this happened on a CalMac ferry. Today, from https://www.ekathimerini.com/: A fight broke out on a Greek passenger ferry travelling from Crete to Athens, state-run broadcaster ERT reported on Monday.  The brawl is thought to have erupted when a passenger complained to a crew member about the on-board toilet facilities during the eight-hour journey from Hania to Piraeus port. The report did not clarify if the facilities were shut or not working.  The crew member attempted to calm down the passenger but the argument soon spiralled out of control and the two men came to blows. A second … Continue reading Greek ferries – one passenger pushed off to his death, fourteen arrested over a fight, another fight over the toilets and a car full of passengers nearly in the soup as captain fails to dock properly

Anonymous Pre the General Election, Keir Starmer was never away from Scotland, same Scotland that he said was at the heart of his government, so since the GE how many times has he, Keir Starmer, been up to visit Scotland ? More than before the UK GE or far far less ? Well he came up on the 8th July , just after the GE, but he only came up to Edinburgh to tell us Scots and others who live in Scotland that “”This is part one (as in Labour’s win in the UK GE)” but he then added that “part two comes in 2026.” (Holyrood election). However sourced from the … Continue reading Since the Election, how many times has Keir Starmer been up to visit Scotland ?