I’m guessing that Scotland News Editor Neil Pooran is less informed on this than he should be or he wouldn’t be hurting us this way, informed as we are, in our ribs. He writes, under that rib-tickly headline: Homeless Network Scotland, which is made up of 40 organisations in the sector, wants to see at least 15,700 quality affordable homes completed each year in order to end the housing emergency. It comes after Andy Burnham pledged the “biggest council house building programme since the post-war period”. The coalition of charities is calling on the Scottish Government to commit to matching … Continue reading Surely that should read ‘Charities call on Burnham to ‘build like the Scottish Government’ as they built 46 114 to his pathetic 2 368

Above, Cairngorm News images at 5 to 6 miles (8-10km) from Nethy Bridge (pop 680), two hours ago. Today, 7 miles from Bordeaux (pop 270 000) today: Which one is being blamed on the local governmnt? You know. Continue reading 270 000 at risk in Bordeaux but everyone of 670 back home in Nethy Bridge

See the video at: https://www.viory.video/en/videos/a3032_23072026/it-s-a-long-spray-to-tipperary-irish-air-corps-helicopter-pounds-slievenamon-mountain-blaze-with-repeated-water-drops By stewartb Something for the unhappy residents of Nethy Bridge to reflect upon? From The National (July 26): ‘UK fails to provide wildfire water‑bombing support for Cairngorms fire’. ‘ ‘John Swinney said the Scottish Government had requested aerial support to drop water on the fire but was told that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) did not have such equipment. (my emphasis) And: ‘The First Minister said: “The Scottish Government requested military assistance, in the form of aerial support to drop water on the fire, from the Ministry of Defence to supplement existing aerial resources that are in place. “We have received … Continue reading MoD admits it had no firefighting aircraft capable of helping with Cairngorm wildfire while the Air Corps in Ireland is currently ‘pounding’ a smaller one

In the Herald today: A community councillor has renewed calls to reopen public toilets in Largs, warning that long ferry queues are leading to people urinating in nearby streets. Andy Adair, 85, said the issue had been raised previously but that he was advised to report incidents of public urination to police rather than seek a wider solution. As I remember, there’s a big toilet block near the terminal. Regardless of the length of the queues, why aren’t they using the public toilets, only yards from the terminal? Further down, we read: Ah, the public toilets are closed? Is that not … Continue reading Largs community councillor and Herald really taking the p***, in the gutter, and discreetly between the car doors

In 2003, as 1 million in London and 100 000 in Glasgow (me limping in at 99 990) marched against the US/UK plans to bomb and to invade Iraq, only one major party leader stood on the platform to denounce it – Alex Salmond, SNP leader at the time. One year later: Still with the courage he needed, in July 2016: Why do I say courage? He had the courage to oppose a war sanctioned by Parliament and dear to the US administration and then, as the horrors grew and the dishonesty of leaders like tony Blair became clear, to … Continue reading How Alex Salmond fought to prevent and to get justice for 600 000 war dead in Iraq while that apparently ‘nice’ Andy was 100% for the war

Above at 9.52pm last night, Police Scotland tell the bitter-for-some truth about the Cairngorm wildfire. Undeterred, 12 hours later, the schadenfreude lot in the newspapers reporting Scotland badly are still telling the news that’s no longer of any use to you, helping to remind you why they’re all going down a sheuch like the ones being dug around Nethy Bridge. Isn’t it not sad. The weather has rained on their parade Continue reading Scotland’s gutter press sink slowly into a sheuch like the ones being dug around Nethy Bridge