Professor Thomas Hale – Associate Professor in Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government; Fellow of St Antony’s College https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-thomas-hale 20 per 100 000 fewer deaths during the pandemic is more than 1 000 lives saved by Nicola Sturgeon and her team. Continue reading Oxford Professor confirms that Scotland had significantly lower Covid death rate due to Scot Gov ‘different’ approach and saved 1 000 lives

If the bigger picture doesn’t fit your agenda, maybe just ignoring that for a wee bit that does will get you bad headline. The Herald today, as it does with health outcomes, crime, roads and all sorts of stuff, ignores the facts and goes all Highland Clearances again, on the way no doubt to blaming Nicola and putting the case for a Forbesian putsch. They’ve carefully picked out Sutherland. Why? Well this: The population in the Highlands has increased by between 10% and 15% in the 20 years from 2001 and 2021. Notably it is declining fast in Dame Jackie … Continue reading Never ones to let facts get in the way of a bad story, the Herald fakes another Highland Clearance

A Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland, has revealed: Police Scotland, may keep limited records for investigations, which record overtime costs and non-pay costs.   These costs do not provide an accurate reflection of the total number of hours spent on an investigation nor do they provide, for the reasons stated above, an accurate cost for an investigation. The costs do not include, for example, officer hours where that officer would have been on duty anyway and as such are not recorded as a specific expense to a particular investigation. However, to be of assistance, I can confirm the recorded … Continue reading £1 MILLION plus and not one ‘SNP fraudster’ jailed – Sarwar’s dad recommends Punjabi judge to get results