Despite making up around 20% of the sample of around 5 000, a UK-wide survey by Parentkind reveals that Scotland’s parents are significantly happier with the education their children receive than are parents in the other UK nations. The above list of six key points make clear that after 16 years, the SNP in government has achieved results that have pushed Scottish schools ahead of their counterparts on key concerns. The fifth bullet point should not be misunderstood. It is good. Scottish parents trust the schools to do the work with their children. Here are some encouraging excerpts from the … Continue reading Research finds Scottish parents statistically significantly more content with schooling than elsewhere in UK

From the Hope not Hate report The Fascist Fringe: Patriotic Alternative and its Splinter Groups, today: Experts (well me) have predicted that fascist groups may disappear entirely in Scotland as Labour more than satisfies the desires of xenophobes, racists and other intolerants. For many many more on the 8% see: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=+8%25+ Continue reading 8% of the population but only 3% of the fascist leaflets handed out

Started by a Freedom of Information request to the Scottish Ambulance Service, from the policing magazine 1919, the above story is everywhere. 1919 has a track record (sic) on propagandising for the opposition parties and their trade union chums in Scotland. In August 2023, on behalf of the Lib Dems, and their survey of only 62 out of 5 000 railway staff, they claimed a crisis affecting 88.7%! The claims were rebutted in the National at: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23707382.allan-dorans-need-balanced-reporting-safety-scotrail-staff/ Today, they have four Scottish stories including the above. STV helpfully tell us: The database of 4,418 addresses constantly changes and is updated … Continue reading Thousands of homes ‘too dangerous for ambulances without police back-up?’ I smell a rat in a pile of neglected data

By stewartb Commentary on the recent Telegraph article written by Sir Keir Starmer has been extensive in the UK press. That it proved controversial is an understatement. However among its questionable elements, there are ones that merit additional attention when viewed from a Scotland perspective. (Review of Starmer’s article: https://archive.ph/dyz6e ) Starmer states: “A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty and patriotism, not abstract theory. To build a ‘New Jerusalem’ meant first casting off the mind-forged manacles. That lesson is as true today as it was then.” Of all that could be said … Continue reading Scotland subordinated in Starmer’s ‘New Jerusalem’?

Try asking any BBC editor how often they have made a Freedom of Information request of, for example, the Scottish Government and you’ll get a revealing response like this: Please note that the information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ Part VI of Schedule 1 to the Act provides that information held by the BBC and the other public service broadcasters is only covered by the Act if it is held for ‘purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature” 1. The BBC is not … Continue reading BBC reporting is ‘creative’ at best

Here’s a game. Tell me if you spot this story in the MSM. From Inside Housing on 30 November: “The best housing minister we’ve had for 20 years.” That is the verdict of one Scottish social housing source when asked by Inside Housing to describe Paul McLennan. It is remarkable praise for anyone to receive, but particularly impressive for a minister who has been in the role for only eight months, and an MSP for two years. Inside Housing caught up with the minister via video call to find out more about how his new brief is going, what his aims are and … Continue reading SNP Housing Minister makes strong impression on sector