A quick, one-day Twitterpoll of 306 suggests that just over 90% of Talking-up Scotland followers had not heard these words, from 2023, reported here two days ago : To my mild embarrassment, I had been aware of him saying something positive about Scotland’s unique child payment, but had not thought to watch the whole comment until being reminded of it by a Freedom of Information report from the Scottish Government last week. Dorling was quite emotional and enormously excited by the initiative. He too had noticed the bias by omission across the MSM. The above poll, only a 100 times … Continue reading How the SNP’s ‘Biggest success story in social policy in the UK for 40 years and the biggest fall in child poverty anywhere in Europe for at least 40 years’ was effectively hidden for two years, from 90% of you, including me – Some F******g Professor!

I happened to spot the above in a wee advert for the BBC, reminding us that only it can be trusted to prepare us to go out into the world knowing what faces us. The prevailing south-westerlies must be blowing away from England, the stench of moral decay in Pacific Quay just along the Clyde from a giant sewage works. Is that why they put the BBC Scotland HQ there? Mind you, they got upwind while the big hospital got downwind. BBC Scotland is beyond untrustworthy. Oh, yeh? My granny trusts it so I dae tae! Prove it tae me! … Continue reading BBC UK’s troubled sibling, squirming like a toad in Fort Pacific Quay, is clearly not known to a service that does it quite well from Alaska, heading East, all the way round to Kamchatka

A quick one. In the period prior to the pandemic, England inspected 8 155 hospitals, care homes and other healthcare-related places with a particular emphasis on infection control in the light of annual flu outbreaks, sometimes deadly. All things being equal with just under a tenth of the population, you might expect the inspections figure in Scotland to be around 820 but it was 1 129, nearly 40% more. Source: https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/19064857/M6_Report_Accessible.pdf Due to this and other factors such as earlier isolation and vaccine delivery, Covid deaths in Scottish care homes were much lower but that cannot be full demonstrated fully … Continue reading Due to 40% greater inspection frequency and other factors such as earlier isolation and earlier vaccine delivery, Covid deaths in Scottish care homes were much lower but that cannot be fully demonstrated due to commercial protective secrecy in the sector in England

Hospital discharges into care homes – Scottish Government guidance was stricter and thus it ‘is not exposed to legal liability’ The Scottish Guidance It is of note, as the Court recognised, that the Scottish equivalent guidance of 26th March stated that …[i]f a patient being discharged from hospital is known to have had contact with other COVID- 19 cases and is not displaying symptoms, secondary care staff must inform the receiving facility of the exposure. The receiving facility should ensure the exposed individual is isolated for 14 days following exposure to minimise the risk of a subsequent outbreak within the … Continue reading Hospital discharges into care homes – Scottish Government guidance for the home owners was stricter and care homes that received discharges actually had a lower rate of Covid because they were the best and made sure they did

In May 2022, the above claims were being made repeatedly by Scottish Labour. Yesterday, Baillie popped up shamelessly as the Covid Inquiry returned to England: We’ve posted many times to dispute the above but now, from UK COVID-19 INQUIRY – MODULE 7 Closing statement on behalf of Public Health Scotland in the UK COVID-19 Inquiry relative to the Module 7 hearing, published today, the last word: While PHS fully acknowledges that every death in a care home death was regrettable, its analysis did not find a statistically significant association between hospital discharge of any type and the occurrence of a … Continue reading Will Jackie Baillie now retract her claim that hospital discharges caused unlawful care home Covid deaths as top academics find it insignificant