In the Herald today: Many parents whose children were treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have lost faith in it as a safe place for them to be cared for and want answers over what went wrong, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry began hearing evidence on Monday into problems at two flagship Scottish hospitals that contributed to the deaths of two children. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19591832.hospital-inquiry-scotland-parents-lost-faith-inquiry-hears/ How many parents will give evidence to the public inquiry into safety of children at the Glasgow hospital? According to BBC Scotland, two deaths have been linked to the the Queen Elizabeth University … Continue reading 99.9% of parents have faith in Glasgow Hospital

There were 2 917 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the lowest level for any day, including Sundays, since the 18th August. The 7 day average has now been falling for two weeks. The Herald is not excited and BBC Scotland is saying nothing as they’re too busy making up scare stories about hospitals. Continue reading Fewest new infections for more than a month

Transmission charging is penalising Scotland From SNP Media: Responding to SSEN Transmission’s latest TNUoS analysis paper, the SNP’s BEIS spokesperson, Stephen Flynn MP said: “Report after report confirms that the current system of transmission charging is penalising Scotland, and this is the latest. “Scottish renewables projects are paying huge sums to access the grid while equivalent projects in England are actually paid to connect to the very same ‘national’ grid. This is quite simply renewables robbery. “Scotland has the potential to lead Europe in renewable energy, but we are being held back by a Tory Government with no interest in our net zero … Continue reading Transmission charging is penalising Scotland

Any issue, no matter how single, from a suicide to a hospital build delay to advice on thinking about calling out an ambulance, and Scotland’s SNP health secretaries are subjected to an hysterical, politicised, media pile-on with calls for their heads. Today, the Herald suggests that Yousaf is absent in some way. I’d say he’s more the victim of stalking these days. How do I know it’s hysterical and politicised in Scotland? Easy. It doesn’t happen in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, for even the most dramatic of failures in health care. Remember Matt Hancock, England’s Health Secretary? Remember these … Continue reading Where’s Javid or, eh, Morgan or, eh, Pengelly?

That headline claim from our public service broadcaster, an institution with a royal charter to inform us and a set of published editorial guidelines, on accuracy and the reliability of sources, must be true, mustn’t it? No, it’s made up as a scare story to make you think that SNP Government is incompetent and to, of course, make you ‘think twice‘ about attending. How many GPs did they ask? Two. Out of more than 5 000. Who are they? After hearing ‘Surgeries are said to be under pressure as never before‘, we see one just walk fast along his corridor … Continue reading Well, 2 out of 5 134 say so

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Demand for GPs is double what it was before the pandemic and the situation is likely to worsen, a doctor-turned-MSP has told BBC Scotland. Dr Sandesh Gulhane, a Scottish Conservative MSP and GP, said he had 80 “patient contacts” on Monday. Pre-Covid he would see about 40 in one day. The current levels are “not safe, not sustainable”, he said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58611645 Is that all you need for a BBC Scotland headline? One opposition politician? One day? BBC Editorial Guidelines on reporting statistics: 3.3.8 We should reserve the same scepticism for statistics as we do for facts or quotes and not necessarily … Continue reading Just rubbish from a Tory MSP who seems to have time for two big well-paid jobs plus media appearances

Scotland produces THREE times as much energy as UK from renewables! On the Marr show this morning, Alok Sharma, COP 26 president, boasts of the UK’s achievements in renewable energy production. Neither he nor Uncle Tam Marr note that 25% of the UK’s production comes from Scotland despite only having 8% of the population. At the start of 2020, Scotland had 11.8 gigawatts (GW) of installed renewable electricity capacity, which produced approximately 25% of total UK renewable generation (119,000 GWh). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland: “BEIS Energy Trends – Renewables”. UK Government. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020. Will that get a mention at COP 26? Will … Continue reading On the back of Scotland again

Rumours of Macwhirter’s demise are clearly only mostly true. The cantankerous one, on this occasion, does ask the obvious question of Brown’s plain daft suggestion that England is progressive. Boy do they prefer the Tories, even under the wholly dysfunctional neo-BNP Johnson regime: I’ve often wondered how we/they got to this point where working-class English folk in the South vote against their economic interests. I’ve just finished: In it, he makes an interesting suggestion based on these two maps: The Church of England and its affluent middle-class, business-oriented, individualist, ‘superior’ (to the Northerners and Celts) emerged in the same area … Continue reading Why do the English vote Tory? Blame the Romans and the Church of England?