By stewartb This tale, as with so many on TuS, begins with the BBC. On 12 February, the corporation’s News website again provided a free promotional service to commercial newspapers sold in Scotland: ‘Scotland’s papers: ‘My son the trans rapist’ and GP closure warning’. Prominent in the display of front pages is that of Scotland on Sunday (SoS) with this headline: ‘A third of GP surgeries could shut down in coming months’ See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64613148 We know that almost anything goes in newspapers sold in Scotland: their dominant political agenda is made crystal clear. And it seems the BBC has no … Continue reading Seeking influence with nonsense – the case of the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland

Launched by Abertay lecturer, Brexit candidate and Jordan Peterson wannabe, Stuart Waiton, The Scottish Union for Education, SUE, made me laugh. Waiton is openly opposed to the Scottish Government’s gender recognition reforms, has defended the rights of families to put their children through gay and transgender therapy. They latter has been condemned as torture by the UN. In the light of the above views, I’m surprised and entertained by his choice of name for a new teacher union which has as a key aim to oppose children debating transgender issues – SUE. Why? Continue reading Is new Scottish ‘transphobic’ teacher union named after the joke song ‘A boy named Sue?’

I’ve been busy satirizing, as I like to think, Scotland’s rabid media. The above was prompted by this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64614463 The above was prompted by: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/12/nhs-consultants-run-private-firms-charging-to-cut-waiting-lists-at-their-own-hospitals The above base on this, the latest in the Hell Hath No Ferries series on Amazon Prime Mince: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/23315585.ferguson-marine-ferry-fiasco-firm-costs-taxpayer-nearly-500m-far/ And the last, above, in the long-running Sturgeon Must Go! series on Nutsflex, produced by Tom Gordon Bennett, poked by this: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23315583.sturgeon-pressure-police-step-snp-fraud-probe/ Homework – write your own stinky headlines below with two sentences saying why you think it is satire and not just sh***. Continue reading Get Nicola! Get the sick! Sink the Maid of the Loch! Get Nick’s hubby! Political satire at its bottom?

I know, it doesn’t always look that way when you see broadcasts not involving the big Scottish clubs but the numbers tell no lies. Why is it the best attended? I know, because BBC Scotland and STV rarely show it, preferring to give us England internationals? Continue reading As STV show us England games Scottish football is best attended in Europe!

According to the above: New analysis finds one-in-five households (21%) in Scotland are (sic) currently living in serious financial difficulty—equivalent to 1.2 million people. In the rest of the U.K., the figure is 17% of households. The Financial Fairness Tracker, commissioned by the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust and analyzed by a team at the University of Bristol, has been monitoring the personal finances of U.K. households since the start of the pandemic (sample around 6,000 U.K. households, 552 in Scotland). Researchers found working-age households in Scotland feel worse about their finances than those in the rest of the U.K. They … Continue reading FACTCHECK: Scottish households ARE better off contrary to University of Bristol dodgy dossier

Cancer Research UK plans to ‘axe’ funding to its largest clinical trials unit in Scotland, leaving only its seven sites in England unaffected. I don’t have Cancer UK donor data but in 2019: Scots are more generous than the UK as a whole when it comes to being charitable, according to the largest study of giving behaviour in the country. Despite the percentage of people giving to charity being on the slide, 76% of Scots reported that they had taken part in a charitable or social activity in 2018, 12 percentage points higher than the UK average of 64%. https://tfn.scot/news/its-official-scots-most-generous-in-the-uk Continue reading Cancer UK to maintain only England-based research units fully despite greater general generosity in Scotland

In an extended piece on vaping by children, on a Saturday morning when, for some unknown reason, BBC Scotland staff get a lie-in, we hear the above and this: Will BBC Reporting Scotland badly, mention this when they wake up for their tea-time broadcast? We also hear that they don’t have enough trading standards officer anyway in England, after cuts under the…who is it again….oh yeh, the Conservatives. The BBC Scotland website has nothing on this currently and on 20 January 2023, made no mention of registration or training being required in Scotland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64336216 Continue reading You have to pay attention if you want the latest news on child vaping in Scotland – try BBC UK instead

Modestly presented away from the main website page and, as far as I can see getting little coverage elsewhere, the above report is a classic piece of grudging, ‘aye but’, Scottish cringe, in response to another fine piece of SNP legislation aimed at protecting the vulnerable here from the harshest winds of Tory austerity. We get, straight-off: A diverging income tax system means higher earners in Scotland will pay a lot more than they would in England, while Scottish welfare benefits get more generous. The Institute of Fiscal Studies says the poorest households will be £580 better off than they … Continue reading Scottish families with children in bottom 30% of income gain over £2000 a year