Yes, the current cargo activity is a direct result of the Scottish Government’s decision to buy the airport. In 2013 the Scottish Government bought Glasgow Prestwick Airport from Infratil for a nominal £1 specifically to stop it closing. Without that intervention the airport would almost certainly have shut. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxq8l3v984o⁠ Under public ownership it has been turned around and is now profitable. Cargo has become a major part of that recovery: volumes have risen sharply (the 5,548 tonnes reported for August is one example), driven by new daily services to China and other freighter operations. That growth has created jobs at … Continue reading Is this due to the Scottish Government’s decision to buy the airport?

In the Guardian today: Thousands of children in England are experiencing some of the sharpest rises in waiting times for healthcare in the history of the NHS, a report has revealed. While some adult waiting times have improved, children and young people are being “hit hardest” amid soaring demand and falling numbers of staff, according to the annual state of care report by the Care Quality Commission. In community health services alone, 80,000 children and young people have been waiting more than a year for an appointment – almost 11 times the number of adults, the report said. Experts said … Continue reading ‘Child health in England at risk from sharp rise in NHS waiting times’ applies less here

STV today, has: Figures show that 135 serious organised crime groups are currently assessed as active in Scotland, seven of which involve children or young people. Data obtained by STV News through a freedom of information request details known crime operations in Scotland over the last five years. The total number of active serious and organised crime groups fell this year compared with 2024/25 – but the figure is higher than five years ago. This is all very well but, frankly, the report ignores, and you have to ask why, the clear facts that, in terms of the horrors of … Continue reading At the street level, the extreme violence, the sex trafficking, the ‘cuckooing’ of the vulnerable in their homes, and the child ‘mules’ with deadly drugs stuffed inside their bodies is an invasive plague everywhere in Scotland and one run by monsters, every one of them, from England – the solutions are clear

In October 2023, after Professor Dorling’s fulsome praise for the SNP’s Child Payment, BBC Wales had Prof Danny Dorling, of Oxford University, said the Scottish payment was the most significant attempt to tackle child poverty seen anywhere in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. “It is clearly the most direct way to help people,” he said. “The parents of children, and especially their mothers, are the people who have their interests most at heart,” he said. “So any talk that says that some other method is better is going against all the evidence that we’ve collected for decades. … Continue reading The BBC did report Professor Dorling more fully and how the Child Payment costs Scotland less than one-percent of its budget but ONLY for its audience in Wales