Professor John Robertson OBA Police Scotland today, report: I refer to your recent request for crime data, made in accordance with the Clery Act. Unfortunately, Police Scotland is unable to assist with your request. Having reviewed the ‘Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting’ from the US Department of Education, it is noted that the Act has strict recording and counting criteria and we are unable to compile data that would be directly comparable or applicable to the requirements of the Act. https://www.scotland.police.uk/access-to-information/freedom-of-information/disclosure-log/disclosure-log-2025/april/25-0906-clery-act-request-usa-university/ This response is understandable but those making the request can, I feel sure, use this data to make the … Continue reading For the US party requesting the data on campus safety from Police Scotland – University students at far lower risk of violence in Scotland than in EVERY other campus in the UK

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: You might have seen their faces. Every few months nowadays, another woman appears in a British newspaper charged with a suspected illegal abortion. Often the woman looks pale and gaunt. Sometimes she hides behind sunglasses as she bows her head. The photographs of these women walking into court feel akin to a public shaming, where the stocks are replaced by a breaking news banner, but the judgment remains the same. The urge for decriminalisation has increased as the risk of arrest has. It is estimated that more than 100 … Continue reading 100 women prosecuted for suspected illegal abortion in England and Wales in last 10 years, none in Scotland for nearly 50 years

Professor John Robertson OBA, PhD, MEd and four other PG awards, BA Hons Dissertation on the integration of special needs pupils, former schoolteacher, education lecturer, senior lecturer, head of department, quality assurance associate dean, professor and research ethics chair, 1975-2016 See that cv list there? It didn’t come easy. It means that after 50 years, I know stuff, I really do. James McEnaney, ‘high school English teacher for unspecified time and nine years as an English and Communication lecturer in a Glasgow further education college‘, seems to think we don’t really know what’s happening in schools and that, like that … Continue reading Deluded nonsense – Scotland’s schools ARE demonstrably succeeding if you just read the statistics and the Herald is always deid in Schrödinger’s box

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks again to Dottie for this: From the Standard yesterday: A new front door at a main entrance to the House of Lords, that cost nearly £10 million, does not work, it has been disclosed. The project has been described as “a complete white elephant and a disaster”. Peers heard a member of parliamentary staff had to be permanently stationed at the door to press a button to open it. It also emerged that the price tag of the project spiralled by nearly 60% from the original estimate of £6.1 million. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/house-of-lords-parliament-westminster-conservative-b1232687.html What else could we … Continue reading £10 million ‘opens doors’ to the Isles for a year but is not enough for a working door in the Lords

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today: Rachel Reeves has effectively cut £2.5bn from the government’s national energy company by sharing the £8.3bn it was promised with a separate nuclear power body set up by the Conservatives. The Labour manifesto had pledged the full amount to Great British Energy to invest in clean power projects. However, the chancellor’s spending review said the company would share this funding with a separate body tasked with spearheading Britain’s nuclear renaissance. The Treasury’s spending plans said the “two allied publicly owned companies with a shared mission” would spend the £8.3bn on “homegrown clean power” including … Continue reading GB Energy budget raided to develop dangerous small nuclear reactors for England

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks once again to Dottie for alerting me to this. In Private Eye No 1651, this week, the above report on their Freedom of Information Request revealing millions of fines issued to often confused ands subsequently traumatised vulnerable people. The report goes on to quote a charity chief: Had the Scottish Government not maintained free prescriptions these last 18 years, based on these figures, we might expect around 280 000 such fines causing anxiety and distress here. This is not the first sign of the wider benefits of Scotland’s long-standing commitment to free prescriptions for all. … Continue reading How Scotland’s free prescriptions are protecting thousands of pregnant women and the vulnerable from NHS fines and being treated as criminals

Professor John Robertson OBA From Regional gross domestic product: all ITL regions published by the ONS in April 2025 but, of course, not reported by any of the so-called Scottish media, the above stunning figures revealing the success of the Scottish Government’s economic policies In February 2024, Anas Sarwar claimed – Scotland ‘closed for business’ under SNP and Greens as Anas Sarwar’s Labour economic policy branded ‘flimsy’ https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-closed-business-under-snp-32121060 Kind of makes you think that Anas is talking out of his…. Continue reading Edinburgh has overtaken London as the most productive city in the UK as SNP prove Sarwar wrong