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Only YouGov can dig out a big NO prediction regardless of surrounding events and only Survation can never ever find a YES lead

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Professor John Robertson OBA YouGov, two days ago, published their latest poll of support for Scottish independence and found a 3% No lead, the first NO lead since June and the first major lead for NO since, again, their own two polls in March 2025, at a time where other pollsters find steady and increasing YES leads in the context of increasing frustration with Westminster governments. YouGov have not found a YES lead since April 2024. Survation have not found on since March 2021. How does this happen? Surely they all use the same methods to ensure reliability? Nope. In … Continue reading Only YouGov can dig out a big NO prediction regardless of surrounding events and only Survation can never ever find a YES lead

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Scotland has 3 322 district nurses and England has shockingly only 4 000 for more than TEN TIMES the population

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UK Government plans to move more NHS England care into the community and out of hospitals won’t be achievable with far fewer district nurses than in Scotland By stewartb Another contrast in favour of Scotland’s healthcare system which will receive no MSM media attention and candidly, little or acknowledgement either from the relevant trade union, concerns District Nursing. Source: Nufffield Trust (May 31, 2025) 1 in 4 district nurses leave NHS – fix district nursing or risk jeopardising plans to shift care closer to home, warns think tank.‘ (Typical of England-based health think tanks, one has to read into their reports … Continue reading Scotland has 3 322 district nurses and England has shockingly only 4 000 for more than TEN TIMES the population

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War of the Labour Roses! Can the mutual admiration of Jackie Baillie and Wes Streeting survive his savage attack on her pals and supporters in the BMA?

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Professor and Agony Aunt, John Robertson OBA On 7 August 2023, we could read in the National: Wes Streeting: Jackie Baillie ‘one of sharpest political minds in UK’ Today, in the Guardian, we see: British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike – Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands She’s not going to like it. Why? In the last two years, just as Labour’s health spokesperson, not shadow health secretary as it seems from media coverage (That’s Sandy Gullane), she has several times … Continue reading War of the Labour Roses! Can the mutual admiration of Jackie Baillie and Wes Streeting survive his savage attack on her pals and supporters in the BMA?

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How can midwives be at ‘breaking point’ with 15% more than NHS England and far fewer (zero) maternity units in crisis

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Professor John Robertson OBA Remember the days, less than 20 years ago, when corporate media like the Herald would only have trade unions on the front page to suggest they were selfish, overpaid, dishonest, a threat to the economy, the nation even. These days, they’re ‘useful idiots‘ to be exploited in the campaign for Labour in the next Holyrood election. I have 1 bairn (born in Falkirk) and three weans (born in Irvine). The midwives were all wonderful. One of the consultants less so. I’m not doubting they feel under pressure but: By 2024, NHS Scotland had 2 581 midwives, … Continue reading How can midwives be at ‘breaking point’ with 15% more than NHS England and far fewer (zero) maternity units in crisis

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Jackie Baillie sets new low desperately trying to hide SNP Government’s huge lead in preparing for expected flu outbreak, widening free access from 5 to 13 key groups and carrying out proportionally more than TWICE as many jags (not ‘jabs’) as in Labour England

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Professor John Robertson OBA Jackie Baillie, Labour Unhealthy Spokesperson, in the terminally-ill Scotsman yesterday, with the above claim. From BBC Health last week and being broadcast widely and frequently: Flu strikes every winter, but this year something seems to be different. A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer. It appears to evade some of our immunity, has kick-started a flu season more than a month early, and is a type of flu that history suggests is more severe. The NHS has now issued a “flu jab SOS” as fears grow that this will add up to a brutal winter. There … Continue reading Jackie Baillie sets new low desperately trying to hide SNP Government’s huge lead in preparing for expected flu outbreak, widening free access from 5 to 13 key groups and carrying out proportionally more than TWICE as many jags (not ‘jabs’) as in Labour England

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10 to 1 in favour and the 1 ‘buried’ and key concerns left out, the BBC’s ‘balance’ on Labour’s nuclear plans in Wales is exposed as just another example of biased reporting

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Professor John Robertson OBA Before the recent surges by Plaid Cymru and Reform UK, we used to be able to contrast BBC Wales reporting, favourably with the horribly one-sided and dishonest coverage by BBC Scotland. With Labour now at risk, they are moving quickly to behave in the same manner. In a 980-word report on the Westminster plans for a new small nuclear power station as far away from London as they can manage without trying to put it in Scotland, on the farthest edge of North Wales, there are only 90 words casting doubt and, even then, avoiding sensitive … Continue reading 10 to 1 in favour and the 1 ‘buried’ and key concerns left out, the BBC’s ‘balance’ on Labour’s nuclear plans in Wales is exposed as just another example of biased reporting

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This is a dark, deeply cynical campaign to undermine the SNP based on not one rape by a biological man identifying as a trans woman of a biological woman and ignoring many rapes by biological males of both cis and trans women

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Professor John Robertson OBA For more than a year now the ‘Scottish’ media have been obsessing over the risk of rape of women by biological males identifying as woman, especially but not exclusively in women’s prisons. They have made much, everything at times, of one case where a biological man, then identifying as a man, was convicted of rape and subsequently identified as a woman with a view to being placed in a women’s prison. They were unsuccessful in that. Why has this case been so widely and repeatedly used? Police Scotland records rape perpetrators by biological sex, confirming no … Continue reading This is a dark, deeply cynical campaign to undermine the SNP based on not one rape by a biological man identifying as a trans woman of a biological woman and ignoring many rapes by biological males of both cis and trans women

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A strange kind of non-story that makes you think that the timing of this is a tad too convenient with the Scottish & Welsh elections coming up next year

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By Liz S This story was covered in the BBC website on the 11 October 2025. “Government to rethink rejection of Waspi compensation” It’s a strange kind of non story that automatically did make you think that the timing of this is a tad too convenient what with the Scottish & Welsh elections coming up next year….. Also with reports that Keir Starmer is currently “fighting attempts to replace him” from some within the party who are considered to be a tad too keen and a tad too ambitious as his Labour colleagues , who are now seeing an opportunity , what with the polls showing just how … Continue reading A strange kind of non-story that makes you think that the timing of this is a tad too convenient with the Scottish & Welsh elections coming up next year

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Why are only the right-wing media making an argument against 300 plus asylum seekers being sent to Inverness?

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Professor John Robertson OBA The news that the 309 young male asylum seekers arriving in Inverness are going to lead to veterans [three families] being booted out of Cameron Barracks in Inverness is only being covered by the right-wing media. I share the view that these families should absolutely be able to stay but there are other, bigger, reasons too. From BBC Highlands and Islands, 29 October 2025 A UK government minister says he recognises the “strength of feeling” about plans to use an Inverness barracks to house asylum seekers. Cameron Barracks is to provide accommodation for 309 men from next … Continue reading Why are only the right-wing media making an argument against 300 plus asylum seekers being sent to Inverness?

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Why has J K Rowling never commented on the Darlington Trans Tribunal?

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Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Alasdair Macdonald and to Liz S for giving me this idea. Has J K Rowling commented on the Darlington NHS trans tribunal? No, J.K. Rowling has not commented on the Darlington NHS trans tribunal as of November 12, 2025.The tribunal involves seven nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust) challenging their employer’s policy allowing a transgender colleague, Rose Henderson (born male, identifies as a woman), to use the women’s changing rooms. How often did she comment on the Fife trans tribunal? J.K. Rowling commented on the Fife trans tribunal … Continue reading Why has J K Rowling never commented on the Darlington Trans Tribunal?