Today in the Vashon Island Beachcomber, Seattle, USA: Washington State Ferries (WSF) has dropped its COVID-era ferry restoration plan and now says full, lasting restoration on all of its routes will likely have to wait until the agency can get its first new ferries — at least 2028. Even though new vessels are projected to begin arriving in 2028, “full, permanent service restoration may be gradual and will remain dependent on vessel availability,” the new WSF plan says. In 2023, Washington State USA, had a GDP of $672 billion1. Scotland’s GDP was $218 billion2, not even a third. Despite that … Continue reading THREE times the wealth but only a fraction of the ferry service

stewartb ‘The Labour Gov has already damaged the University of Edinburgh by cancelling the £800 million the University was expecting for the AI research project.‘ Candidly, it’s worth clarifying I think that the significance of this strictly goes beyond an ‘AI research project’. Labour has cancelled investment in a major piece of computing infrastructure of significance for the UK’s science and technology research and innovation capability and capacity. It was destined for Edinburgh University in large part because the university has been the host of past generations of supercomputers as well as long having one of the world’s best AI research centres. The … Continue reading The significance of this strictly goes beyond an ‘AI research project

Anonymous SKY News had a Edinburgh student , pre the GE, state that he was going to vote for the Labour party in the GE as he wanted to get on the property market as a home owner. Perhaps that said student was being somewhat ungracious and unappreciative of the SNP, as the Scottish government, in them giving him free tuition fees thus more opportunity to gain a better paid job in order to be able to afford a mortgage. As this Scottish student’s debt, post leaving University, would be far less than others within the UK as any student loan that he (perhaps got if … Continue reading Where Labour will control all of the so called British governments

How the Wilson-Dalgety axis headlines, above right, should read in a more truthy world The nonsense they currently publish to maintain their plummeting sales trend, to now less than 10 000 per day. The Tory crisis headline will do. Continue reading Scotsman headlines made more truthy and less dishonest

Talking-up Scotland reader statistics Talking-up Scotland xtwitter followers. I’ve been a bit disappointed with TuS reader numbers recently. Rarely getting 2 000 a day and hardly ever approaching the 5 to 6 000 some days in 2020. However, after stumbling on ABC DATA for the multi-staffed Scottish local and national newspapers, I feel less concerned and also somewhat taken aback. Examples below. Check your own local at the link. The Herald – 11 364 The Scotsman 7 710 Scotland on Sunday – 3 996 Herald on Sunday – 5 815 Ayr Advertiser – 543 Ayrshire Post 4 059 Cumnock Chronicle … Continue reading Settling down to……?

Investigators at Arcadia Care Home, Bridgeton, where a 54 year-old woman died in a fire (Image: Daily Record) From the Insider on 16 August 2024: A care home operator has been fined £500,000 for failings which led to a 54 year-old woman dying in a fire in Glasgow. HC-One, which ran Arcadia Gardens care home in the Bridgeton area of the city when the fire broke out, pled guilty to a breach of health and safety at work committed in March 2017, the Crown Office said. From This is Money in August 2017: Controversial businessman and Labour party donor Chai Patel … Continue reading Glasgow care home where woman died in fire is owned by £1.5 million Labour donor whose company had 856 Covid deaths and was praised by Scottish Labour

At times, I begin to feel uncomfortable living here. It seem like every public service is performing better and everything cost more than in the rest of the UK, after 17 years of SNP in government. Oh no, here’s more: Funding for Welsh students is “broken”, according to a student union, after figures showed the average university graduate leaves with more than £35,000 of debt. That is an increase of more than £14,000 in five years, according to Student Finance Wales (SFW) figures obtained by BBC Cymru Fyw. The highest outstanding student loan balance in June was nearly £140,000, which the … Continue reading Be careful what you vote for in 2026 – Student debt in Labour Wales more than twice that in Scotland