Professor John Robertson OBA UK Labour‘s electricity-demanding creature Ed Milliband has clearly seen this: Roughly half of the SNP’s voters believe nuclear power should be part of Scotland’s mix of clean energy generation, a poll suggests, despite the party’s longstanding opposition to it. Polling for the campaign group Britain Remade, founded by a former energy and climate adviser to Boris Johnson, found 52% of those who voted for the party in 2021 believe nuclear power should be included in Scotland’s energy mix to meet the 2045 net zero target. Meanwhile, 57% of those who voted for the party in last year’s general election felt the same way, … Continue reading Nuclear energy in Ayrshire – How many more avoidable cases of childhood leukaemia do the Monstrous Ed Milliband and Anas Sarwar think is acceptable for us?

Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald has the above today and: A small number? Two? It’s never mentioned but Sandesh Gulhane is. Also, never mentioned, ever, this kind of thing: From Public Health Scotland Cancelled planned operations Month Ending 31 August 2025, we can see While 7.8% of operations in GG&C were cancelled, only 1.3% were cancelled to to unavailability of staff or operating theatres, compared to 2.2% for NHS Scotland as a whole. NHS GG&C had a lower cancellation rate of this kind than all bar Shetland, Tayside and the Golden Jubilee in Clydebank. The Herald has never reported … Continue reading NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has one of the lowest operation cancellation rates in Scotland with nearly 99% completion rates

as libraries and gyms isn’t keeping up with rising costs, according to the public spending watchdog. It’s up to each council to decide what to spend and what to provide and services vary significantly across the country. According to research by the Accounts Commission, the value of their spending nationally is down 3% since 2018. Professor John Robertson OBA 3% over 7 years? Is that not pretty much sustained funding? Anyhow, how much does Scotland spend, per head on this kind of thing? £140. England? £120. Scotland thus spends 16% more, £20 more per person, per year That’s quite a … Continue reading Scotland spends 17% more on culture and leisure

Professor John Robertson OBA Today, try searching for Scotland and ferries and you’ll be flooded, unlike the MV Glen Sannox‘s slightly damp steering gear, with a surge of reports, several directly ‘accusing’ or ‘shaming’, the SNP for the kind of minor repair that is often required in the teething stages of new ship. Try narrowing your search to the period from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007, Labour and the Lib Dem’s time in power, and you’ll find very little indeed. You will find one (only) story of delays, due to repairs lasting 6 months, on 22 April 2003, in the Herald, … Continue reading How ferries under Labour from 1997 to 2007 were never bad news and never politicised