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?

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