Headlining for BBC Scotland, a report on vaccine no-shows in one centre, features an early and repeated suggestion that letters arriving late may have been the cause and Tory MSP Annie Wells implying that this is the cause and that ‘SNP ministers must give health boards the resources to ensure that people’s details are fully up-to-date.‘ BBC Wales on the 30th March reporting on no-shows in Swansea featured no such allegations and suggested instead: ‘people needed to ensure their GPs had their correct address.‘ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56575733 BBC England/UK? They’re not even reporting no-shows as an issue. What’s the research evidence? A … Continue reading BBC Scotland tries to blame vaccine no-shows on SNP

I haven’t got today’s figures but the number of new cases has been falling for 5 days now in Glasgow City. The system is robust unlike it’s outsourced, privatised, equivalent in England. Scotland’s MSM have a different tale to tell you: Continue reading Scotland’s test and trace teams succeeding in Glasgow

From SNP Media The SNP has hit back at Priti Patel over her comments that the British public voted for ramping up immigration raids – saying Scotland “absolutely did not vote for them” or the Tory government. The comments follow the Home Secretary’s announcement to punish asylum seekers who arrive in the UK via irregular routes – as the overwhelming majority of people fleeing persecution do. Under the proposals, people who enter the UK via irregular routes seeking asylum won’t have the same entitlements as those who arrive through official channels, such as resettlement schemes. The UN has condemned these plans. Priti … Continue reading Scotland did not vote for this

Even before a decade and more of Tory policies hammering us more strongly into knowing who we are, the people of Scotland had by far the strongest sense of identity and so, potentially the strongest of cases for autonomy. And, the above is no blood and soil, uneducated ethnic nationalism like that found in parts of England but based on the most educated population in Europe: Can we take some pride in this? Just a bit? Continue reading The strongest sense of identity and smart enough to know why?

The SNP has said Douglas Ross faces a ‘big test’ of his promise to stand up for Scotland’s farmers ‘every single time’ in the face of a Tory trade deal with Australia which would see Scotland’s beef and lamb farmers undercut – threatening their future. Writing in the Scottish Farmer magazine in September 2020, the Scottish Tory leader penned an open letter to Scotland’s farmers promising that he would stand up for them on a bigger platform. However, he has been silent in the face of proposals in the Tories’ trade deal with Australia that would see Scotland’s farmers undercut … Continue reading Creep feeding his own myths?

From SNP Media: The SNP has said Alister Jack must ‘fight back or resign’ over the damaging Tory trade deal with Australia, which threatens the future of Scottish farmers and crofters. In a letter today, Ian Blackford MP urged the Tory Scottish Secretary to “break your deafening silence” on the issue and lead an urgent fightback against a zero-tariff, zero-quota deal, which would undercut the price and standards of Scottish beef and lamb – putting Scottish farmers out of business.  The SNP Westminster Leader said the issue was of such importance to farming communities in Scotland that the Scottish Secretary must be ready … Continue reading Gentleman farmer Jack now in hiding from farmers?

Today in the Herald, but also covered in the Record five days earlier SAFETY fears have been raised over the home of Britain’s nuclear weapons on the Clyde as managers have slashed firefighter numbers alongside a ‘failure’ to provide promised safety equipment. Union Unite has slammed the move to go ahead with cutting eight posts from the specialist fire safety crew at HM Naval Base Clyde – a reduction in strength of 15 per cent – as an “an accident waiting to happen”. Six years before, a Freedom of Information request to the MoD asked: Dear Ministry of Defence, I … Continue reading Tory cuts risk nuclear catastrophe in ‘remote Scotland’, 40 minutes from largest city

The Herald’s Helen McArdle, not for the first time neglects to point the finger accurately leaving casual readers to associate a failure of the UK Government with one of the SNP Government. She’s missed ‘UK’ before ‘politicians’ in the headline and in the text we don’t see what I’ve added in brackets: What do you [the UK Conservative Government] do if you’ve left your country’s [the UK’s] borders open to variants, squandered £37 billion on a [UK] test and trace system [for England] with “no clear evidence” that it has cut infections [in England], and consistently failed to ensure that … Continue reading Bias by omitting the Conservative Government

When I saw that, my instant reaction was: ‘A Scottish Labour politician criticises someone in the context of education? I bet he’s been embarrassed before by his lack of educational prowess?’ Readers will remember, Richard Leonard and James Kelly stumbling over something taught in primary school. Sweeney was a virtual reality engineer of some sort, so good at maths, if not the real world, eh? I found this, suggesting not, among the forensic files of Wings: Wait, what? “For example, had the Tory vote not increased in the way it did at the last general election, Labour would have taken every … Continue reading Paul Sweeney, the worst Education Secretary we’ll never have attacks Swinney?