Talking-up Scotland costs nothing so donate to our friends at  https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/ or take out a subscription to the Scots Independent newspaper in which I have a column, at: https://scotsindependent.scot/FWShop/product-category/subscriptions/ Pollster Redcoat & Wilton have had 13 polls since January 2023, all have found a No majority. Their last Yes majority was in November 2022 in the middle of a run of 7 Yes majorities by other pollsters with leads of up to 11%. They got 4%. Among their 13, they had the biggest No leads. No other pollster compares. Political Betting seem not interested in only one major pollster, the one that pops … Continue reading 13 in a row! Pollster maintains record for never finding a Yes majority

Talking-up Scotland costs nothing so donate to our friends at  https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/ or take out a subscription to the Scots Independent newspaper in which I have a column, at: https://scotsindependent.scot/FWShop/product-category/subscriptions/ Central Ayrshire Labour Candidate, Alan Gemmell OBE, if elected, will do what Sir Keir Starmer tells him to do. Any suggestion of disloyalty and he’d be dumped quicker that guy in Rochdale for daring to criticise Israel. Yesterday, in the Ardrossan Herald, Gemmell is urging action on poverty. Last year End Child Poverty made clear the role of the Two Child Benefit Cap in pushing 1.5 million UK children into poverty. There are 1 … Continue reading Central Ayrshire Labour Candidate would not commit to helping 1 560 children out of poverty

From the ONS in July 2023, the average cost of a house in Scotland was 5.29 times the average household income. In Labour Wales, it was 6.38 times and in England, a shocking 8.44 times. Note how the Scottish trend [bottom] was climbing to follow that of the rUK then turned around in 2008? What could have caused that? More council-house building and affordable building under the SNP. Continue reading How Scottish Labour would have dragged Scotland into the UK’s unaffordable housing nightmare

Talking-up Scotland costs nothing so donate to our friends at  https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/ or take out a subscription to the Scots Independent newspaper in which I have a column, at: https://scotsindependent.scot/FWShop/product-category/subscriptions/ Thanks to Brian McGowan for alerting me to this. In the National yesterday: Inverness Airport won the Best Airport Under Two Million Passengers award in Europe for the fourth year running at the 2023 Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards. In addition to securing the Best Airport title, it also earned Airport With The Most Dedicated Staff in Europe. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24176690.scottish-airport-scoops-best-europe-award/ BBC Scotland Business today? Nope. BBC Highlands and Islands? Nope. Talking-up … Continue reading Inverness – best small airport in Europe is not reported

Talking-up Scotland costs nothing so donate to our friends at  https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/ or take out a subscription to the Scots Independent newspaper in which I have a column, at: https://scotsindependent.scot/FWShop/product-category/subscriptions/ From https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/our-areas-of-work/acute-and-emergency-services/urgent-and-unscheduled-care/accident-and-emergency/#section-3-2 I’ve produced the above graph from the downloaded data to reveal what has been happening in the weekly A&E figures for full emergency departments (ED) since the beginning of 2024. There is a clear trend of improvement here unreported by the Scottish media. Note that at the same time, demand went up significantly from 24 000 to 26 000 attendances per week. Talking-up Scotland costs nothing so donate to our friends at … Continue reading NHS Scotland’s improving A&E trend in 2024 revealed