Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to ArtyHetty for alerting me to this. From the Orkney Times, yesterday. Petrofac, one of Aberdeen’s largest employers has entered administration. A statement released by the company on 27 October stated: Having carefully assessed its options, and the impact of TenneT’s decision to terminate Petrofac’s scope of work on the 2GW programme in the Netherlands, the Directors of Petrofac Limited (the Group’s ultimate holding company) have applied to the High Court of England and Wales to appoint administrators to Petrofac Limited. Not in the MSM coverage, only in the Orkney Times and here, despite being … Continue reading Junior Minister, Michael Shanks’s lies fully exposed but only in the Orkney Times and here as 2 000 jobs in the North of Scotland are put at risk

of the UK’s busiest maternity units, claiming staff shortages and a culture of mistrust led to patients being harmed. Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland is headlining today: Damning report finds ‘culture of mistrust’ at maternity unit – Staffing shortages and a “culture of mistrust” led to delays and patients being harmed at one of the busiest maternity units in the UK, a review has found. Healthcare Improvement Scotland‘s report based on a one/two day visit to the maternity unit in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh does say the same things but among more positive statements and nowhere does it … Continue reading Police have investigated over 1 000 avoidable baby deaths in NHS England, none in Edinburgh and none in Scotland where ‘maternity failings’ pay-outs are tellingly less than half, per head, those in England

Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland’s top stories today, on their website and on their broadcast news, but there’s something missing. This, from the Scottish Government only yesterday afternoon: New figures show NHS waiting lists have fallen and waits of more than a year have reduced for the fourth month in a row. When compared with August 2025, September saw a 7.3% decrease in new outpatient waits longer than a year – this number has now fallen for four consecutive months. The total waiting list for outpatients has decreased by 2.0% on the same month last year, and the inpatient … Continue reading For BBC Scotland neither a falling murder rate nor falling NHS Scotland waiting times as the gap widens further with UK Labour’s climbing ones, are ‘news’ for you

Professor John Robertson OBA BC Ferries, based in archipelago around Vancouver in Canada operates 41 ferries to 47 locations. CalMac operates 36 vessels with another 5 being built to 50 locations. In Scotland, CalMac operates in stormier seas but otherwise they are similar. Today, the MV Hebridean Isles, 40 years-old, is off to the breakers yard. CalMac are often accused in the media of operating elderly, unreliable, vessels so how many older or the same age than the MV Hebridean Isles are BC Ferries still running? Just these: 14 older than or the same age as the 40 year-old CalMac … Continue reading To keep fleet young and reliable, CalMac scraps 40 year-old, younger or same age as 14 still in service in Canada’s milder seas

Professor John Roberson OBA The Herald once more sailing the putrid waters of disinformation on behalf of the trade unions they once despised, has the above outrageous claim based on research by the TUC. This is not snobbery but can we have something by trained impartial researchers on this? We already have? 5 of them? Even the Fraser of Allander? In 2023, 7.6 to 8.1 jobs per £1m GVA (Gross Valued Added).1 In 2020, in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol 119, 7-9 FTE jobs per £1m GVA.2 Also, in 2019, in Energy Economics, 5-15 temporary jobs,3 2016, in Renewable … Continue reading Herald headlines shoddy TUC research suggesting only 1 job for every £1m in wind energy, instead of 5 peer-reviewed research papers showing up to 9 times as many