First-off this morning, a story, repeated throughout the morning, which does not feature on the BBC Scotland website or on the BBC Health website or on the front pages of any of the 12 newspapers featured on the BBC Scotland site. The women have not yet protested. They ‘are protesting later in Glasgow at ongoing delays to their treatment. The women say they’re having to be assessed in Glasgow for follow-up surgery.’ Isn’t that normal? Imagine they were not assessed and something went wrong? Imagine Anas Sarwar shouting the name of the sufferer at Nicola, everywhere he could, unconvincingly pretending … Continue reading Setting the agenda for the day

Dublin to Zeebrugge, 572 miles in 11 hours and 44 minutes. Rosyth to Zeebrugge, 467 miles so 9.5 hours. No brainer? What Brexit has done to England and to Ireland in one dramatic image. Continue reading Time for Scotland to go with this flow

For the first time since 1997, the number of patients admitted for drug-related stays has fallen quite sharply. Readers will know that drug deaths and presumably incidents of hospitalisation are most common among the older users, Thatcher’s Children. The increase in drug deaths also seems to have stalled in the last two years. See this recent post for fuller account: Scotland’s MSM and opposition parties have their fingers stuffed in their ears on this. Continue reading More evidence Scotland’s drugs harm surge has peaked?

Reporting Scotland today focus bizarrely on one Health board as their Covid cases surge down from 350 to 100 and ‘full capacity.’ Four weeks ago, they were trumpeting the worst A&E waiting times ‘on record’: Since then, A&E stories have disappeared. Could this be why: Percentage seen within 4 hours: Week-ending 24 October 2021: 69.6 (worst ever) 31 October: 71.4 07 November: 73.8 14 November: 75.2 And as winter approaches too! Continue reading Reporting Scotland miss NHS Scotland’s emergency services improving for THIRD week in a row

From SNP Media today: Analysis from the House of Commons Library found that Scotland currently has 14,120 personnel – however an accurate pro-rata share that reflects its population size and land mass should leave us with 16,044. The analysis also concluded that Scotland was way below its pro-rata share of Army and RAF personnel too – by 4.8% and 6.6% respectively. The majority (60%) of service personnel stationed in England are located in Conservative-voting regions in the South West and South East of Britain. Scotland makes up 32% of the UK’s land mass and 63% of territorial waters yet only receives 7% of … Continue reading Defence spending directed away from Scotland to Tory seats

Soldiers ‘saving NHS Scotland’ are commonly seen in our MSM especially on BBC Scotland, despite only making up less than 1% of frontline staffing and not being trained to do much. What, none of them can do emergencies? None? I don’t think Alister Jack mentioned that. There are other stories about soldiers not making into the media, like this from SNP Media today: Ministry of Defence figures have revealed that complaints of rape and sexual assault made by girls under 18 in the military have risen tenfold since 2015 – the equivalent of one report for every 40 girls. Furthermore, a Defence … Continue reading The other soldiers, abusing women

The Scottish Government is working on steps to save lives, fully backed by expert opinion and in concert with nearly every other European nation, including England, and Reporting Scotland spend much of the first report on business opposition, before any actual announcement. This of course, echoes, opposition parties’ political comments yesterday. In the teeth of a stubborn pandemic why do we get this supposed ‘balance’ from a partisan and uneducated group? What next, anti-vaxxers, anti-face-covering groups, birchers? Then we’re off to NHS Lanarkshire, once more, to hear they’re working at full capacity and can’t deliver the care ‘they want to.’ … Continue reading The Power of Nightmares

The Leader of Plaid Cymru Adam Price and the First Minister Mark Drakeford have unveiled a Co-operation Agreement. The agreement is a joint policy programme covering 46 areas, ranging from the delivery of free school meals to all primary school pupils; a commitment to take immediate and radical action to address the second homes crisis, to long-term reform of the Senedd. This is a new form of political working arrangement. The two partners – the Plaid Cymru Senedd Group and the Welsh Government – will work together to jointly develop and oversee the delivery of the policies covered by the … Continue reading “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

From cuckooshoe: “Do Scottish nationalists really want another referendum now?” Try unpicking this.. “Scotland has shared a long and often turbulent history with the rest of the UK, having had the same monarch as England since 1603, when England’s Queen Elizabeth I, who had no children, passed the crown to her relative King James of Scotland.” and this.. “The subsequent political union with the UK in 1707… ” and this.. “…it is odd that Scottish nationalists so focused on regaining sovereignty should be willing to relinquish it to the EU.” and this.. “… there is also the fact that ahead … Continue reading English Tory regurgitates undigested myths for aljazeera.com

Who are Mckenna’s con artists? Not Corbyn despite the image but the SNP Government, of course, again. In the interests of efficiency, I’ll simply link you to a piece by miner and war-hero’s son, former senior police officer and now SNP MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, Allan Dorans, in Left Foot Forward, which demonstrates with actual facts, that the SNP is the force for a more equal society that Labour has not been for decades now: You can read it at: https://leftfootforward.org/2021/01/allan-dorans-what-has-the-snp-done-for-us-here-are-7-ways-weve-tackled-inequality/ McKenna has, of course, never written for LFF. They don’t pay. He has once, only, been quoted … Continue reading Fake Yes-supporter hiding SNP’s real leftist achievements, again