All of the MSM including the ‘Scottish’ press are full of warnings of soaring power bills. None mention that with 8% of the population, Scotland produces 28% of the UK’s gas consumption. The rest comes mainly from Norway and Russia. Click to access 2020_Energy_Consumption_in_the_UK__ECUK_.pdf https://www.gov.scot/news/oil-and-gas-production-statistics-for-2019-1/ And on electricity, none mention that Scotland produces 97% of its electricity from renewables, compared to only 35% in the UK or that 25% of the UK consumption is transferred from Scotland. https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/19504045.scotland-reaches-renewables-top-three/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland: “BEIS Energy Trends – Renewables”. UK Government. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020. Continue reading Scotland produces nearly 4 TIMES as much gas as it needs

The proxy war against the SNP using the NHS as the battleground is at full force with a series of evidence free reports based on the interests of narrow groups as opposed to the wider population. This suggestion of a lack of beds in NHS Scotland needs some context. From the Kings Fund in 2020: The total number of NHS hospital beds in England, including general and acute, mental illness, learning disability, maternity and day-only beds, has more than halved over the past 30 years, from around 299,000 in 1987/88 to 141,000 in 2018/9, while the number of patients treated has … Continue reading Scotland has far more hospital beds per head than rUK

As always BBC Scotland start off from the viewpoint of businesses, promote the English approach and only in the last of 19 paragraphs, can we read: Scotland’s national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has warned that removing the PCR testing requirement for new arrivals would make it harder to detect new Covid variants, as genomic testing is not possible with lateral flow tests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58627572 As always, we never hear of what the Scottish Government has achieved as in this: The death rate in England & Wales has been far higher than in Scotland. Had they followed the Scottish Government’s approach, … Continue reading Scottish Government testing rules ‘could save thousands of lives’

In a BBC Scotland piece worthy of the National Enquirer, a parent is exploited for a quote and others are wheeled in by a QC of doubtful intelligence or perhaps ethics. We read: He said that “significant numbers” suffered infection from 2017 onwards and that parents “could not believe that the hospital environment was as far as they were concerned making their already sick children more ill”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58618317 That’s not even remotely true. I demonstrate the utterly insignificant level of infection nearly two years ago: Bias by graphing? The left-hand scale needs to go up to at least 400 and … Continue reading QC representing parents lies to judge

No, I wasn’t sick (sic) of the old one. Continue reading The New Header

In the Herald today: Many parents whose children were treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have lost faith in it as a safe place for them to be cared for and want answers over what went wrong, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry began hearing evidence on Monday into problems at two flagship Scottish hospitals that contributed to the deaths of two children. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19591832.hospital-inquiry-scotland-parents-lost-faith-inquiry-hears/ How many parents will give evidence to the public inquiry into safety of children at the Glasgow hospital? According to BBC Scotland, two deaths have been linked to the the Queen Elizabeth University … Continue reading 99.9% of parents have faith in Glasgow Hospital

There were 2 917 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the lowest level for any day, including Sundays, since the 18th August. The 7 day average has now been falling for two weeks. The Herald is not excited and BBC Scotland is saying nothing as they’re too busy making up scare stories about hospitals. Continue reading Fewest new infections for more than a month

Transmission charging is penalising Scotland From SNP Media: Responding to SSEN Transmission’s latest TNUoS analysis paper, the SNP’s BEIS spokesperson, Stephen Flynn MP said: “Report after report confirms that the current system of transmission charging is penalising Scotland, and this is the latest. “Scottish renewables projects are paying huge sums to access the grid while equivalent projects in England are actually paid to connect to the very same ‘national’ grid. This is quite simply renewables robbery. “Scotland has the potential to lead Europe in renewable energy, but we are being held back by a Tory Government with no interest in our net zero … Continue reading Transmission charging is penalising Scotland

Any issue, no matter how single, from a suicide to a hospital build delay to advice on thinking about calling out an ambulance, and Scotland’s SNP health secretaries are subjected to an hysterical, politicised, media pile-on with calls for their heads. Today, the Herald suggests that Yousaf is absent in some way. I’d say he’s more the victim of stalking these days. How do I know it’s hysterical and politicised in Scotland? Easy. It doesn’t happen in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, for even the most dramatic of failures in health care. Remember Matt Hancock, England’s Health Secretary? Remember these … Continue reading Where’s Javid or, eh, Morgan or, eh, Pengelly?