In this typically Anglocentric BBC report today, England is only mentioned once so you might be excused for thinking that the 400 000 discharges of raw sewage into rivers, due to heavy rain, included Scotland. It doesn’t. On the 3rd of August 2021, BBC Scotland, informed us: The number of recorded sewage spills in Scotland’s rivers and seas has increased by 40% over the last five years, new figures show. The figures the utility firm does have show that last year there were a total of 12,725 “spill events” – up 40% on 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58040852 Note that grudging ‘the figures … Continue reading England dumping sewage into rivers more than THREE times more often than Scotland

Thanks to that early bird @msm_monitor for drawing my attention to these data. England has ten times the population but was doing less than 10 times the booster jags on 15th October. Other than the 16th and the 23rd, Scotland has done more, pro rata, than England. On the 25th, Scotland did, pro rata, 40-50% more than England. And, cumulatively, two things. One, we’ve still done more pro rata. Two, they were counting third jabs to the vulnerable which were not boosters which explains how they supposedly started before the JCVI guidelines could be adopted. Continue reading Scotland has been doing more booster jags and many more for 8 out of 10 days!

In the Guardian today: Britain: a country hosting a climate summit next week. Also: a country where the governing party just voted to allow water firms to keep discharging raw sewage into the nation’s rivers and seas, a practice they indulged in just the 400,000 times last year. Time to add irony to the extinction watchlist. During the G7 meeting at Carbis Bay last summer, the prime minister took a swim in the Cornish sea. I wonder if next week in Glasgow he’ll take a dip in the Clyde, into which Scottish Water have released hundreds of millions of litres of raw sewage. Finally, a wild swimming … Continue reading An effluent tide of journalism pours human waste into Scotland’s rivers

Glasgow’s supposed rat crisis has been everywhere from the Sun to Question Time. Those political rats, the Scottish Conservatives and their informers in the GMB have been loving the sight of their cousins scurrying around COP26 City. But, the facts are less welcome to them. A survey of 3,400 callouts in October 2020, across the UK by Pest.co.uk reveals the cities where you are most likely to spot a rat: Birmingham – 353Newcastle – 305Leeds – 266Liverpool – 251City of London – 190Manchester – 187Sheffield – 155Cardiff – 139Bristol – 131Edinburgh – 120 https://nen.press/2020/10/30/top-10-most-rat-infested-cities-in-the-uk-revealed/ Continue reading 8 English cities top ratty league ahead of Glasgow

Michael Griffin is a Newcastle-based surgeon and convenor of the Edinburgh surgeon’s professional association, the RCS. Did nobody from Edinburgh want the job? He styles himself ‘president’ and ‘professor’ but it’s just a convenorship and he’s just one of those honorary profs who has never published research. I think being a surgeon is pretty high status on its own. Why does he, and others, need ‘president’ and ‘professor?’ Anyhow, to the point, is he basing his weather prediction on the view outside his Newcastle office? He must be because: First on ‘staff shortages’, NHS Scotland has pro rata 50% more … Continue reading Newcastle medic imagines ‘perfect storm’ in ‘our NHS’ in Scotland

There’s such a big disconnect between the text and the headline, the student on day one of a media studies course would think they’d spotted a deliberate error put there by the teacher. First, note the wee sub-heading under the photo? But, then back to the scare: A significant number of Scots most at risk from Covid are still waiting for a booster jab despite receiving their second dose more than six months ago. Just over 616,000 people in the top priority vaccine groups are now due their booster – but only 511,807 jabs have been given, figures show. And … Continue reading Figures DO NOT show booster gap in high-risk groups

By stewartb The BBC’s misrepresentation of stats around England’s A&E 4 hour standard has become blatant. Apparently – even in website articles – it’s just not feasible to go into that level of detail!!! I AM AWARE OF THIS RECENT COMPLAINT TO THE BBC: ‘BBC News website : It is stated: ‘In September (2021) a quarter of patients who came to A&E in England waited longer than four hours for treatment.’ And we are told: ‘That is the worst performance since 2004, when the four-hour target was brought in.’ ‘The authoritative NHS England source is: ‘A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions September … Continue reading The BBC’s misrepresentation of stats around England’s A&E 4 hour standard has become blatant

In our survey of 5 800, 95% were not jagged by a sojer nor had they ever seen one: Additional comments were revealing and entertaining: It’s a Set-up by @BBCScotlandNews@BBCScotland Box of gloves behind him but he’s not wearing them. Would never happen. I was given my 2nd jag a couple of months ago by a soldier in Ingliston, beside Edinburgh airport. No idea of regiment or what instrument he played, but his shoulder badge said military band. (not joking). Good lad, had an English accent if that means anything. Ravens Craig sports centre? The image looks very much like … Continue reading Army vaccinator camouflage highly effective as 95% of Scots never see them?

Contrary to Scottish Labour Shadowy Health person, Jackie Baillie’s claims, it seems the vulnerable are getting their booster jags on time. It is of course important to clarify what ‘on time’ means. Jackie Baillie seems to think you should not wait longer than 6 months because your immunity will have waned and you’ll then catch it, defo. The JCVI who she pretends to follow and understand said ‘no earlier than 6 months’ and insist immunity is still strong after 6 months. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advice-on-covid-19-booster-vaccination Our snap poll of 5 800, some of whom are no doubt over 70, suggests that the programme … Continue reading Boosters done on time!

Ben Wallace has promised ‘about 4 000 Armed Forces personnel across the UK to stop a winter ‘collapse’. So, pro rata, that will be around 400 for Scotland to add to our existing 160 000 NHS staff, 0.25%. Wow, that’s double the current 0.125%! Given that none of the earlier lot could do emergency callouts and that Lanarkshire only got 3 nurses recently, might this just be a continuation of what is no more than a PR stunt? Continue reading Army to rescue NHS Scotland with boost of additional 0.25% to staffing, non-emergency drivers mind