They’ve backstabbed better men and women than Douglas Ross before. Their London coven did for Maggie! They’ve left Jackson Carlaw out because they didn’t do a poll in his time. YouGov did on the 27th January 2020 and found only 25% of Tory voters trusted him and 8% of all voters trusted him. Would you have bought a car from that man? By my reckoning, that makes Douglas Ross a whopping 3 times more successful in winning hearts and minds. What’s their problem. Who could they get that’s any better? Jackie Baillie? Sarah Smith? George Galloway? Continue reading Where’s Jackson?

The Herald’s photo editor, Jamie (14) rushes into Tom Gordon’s fuggy office clutching the above image. ‘Well done lad! Now nip downstairs to the chemists and get me a fungicide. Seriously though, Jeanne Freeman’s ‘admission of guilt’ yesterday was a better feed even than Tom’s had from Conservative HQ. Accepting the open goal gleefully, he writes: Nicola Sturgeon must take responsibility for the fatal blunder which saw infected hospital patients moved into care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic, opposition leaders have said. The First Minister’s role in the decision to move 1,300 untested patients into care homes came under scrutiny after Jeane … Continue reading Tom Gordon turns Freeman’s ‘admission’ into a ‘fatal blunder’

The facts don’t matter to our most prominent journalists. They’re interested in the personalities. I guess their market research tells them that enough of us are too. That the polls prove they have no significant impact on voting behaviour, in Scotland, doesn’t matter to them either, it seems. It’s what they do. What they’ve always done in the tabloids: But, the ‘serious’ media used to do issues more and personalities less, it seems to me. Does this type of reporting help more the right or the left? Unsurprisingly hard empirical evidence is almost non-existent. Demonstrating such an effect would require … Continue reading Psychodramas keep the Right in power?

From SNP Media today: Commenting on Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross’s plea to voters to back Labour candidates in some seats, SNP Depute Leader Keith Brown said: “This is the endorsement Anas Sarwar was dreading, but the message is now crystal clear – a vote for Labour will be claimed by the Tories to hand control over to Boris Johnson. The decisive way to stop Boris Johnson deciding Scotland’s future is to give both votes to the SNP for Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister. “Douglas Ross’s campaign is going from bad to worse, and is no wonder he has been … Continue reading ROSS “VOTE LABOUR” PLEA IS ENDORSEMENT SARWAR DREADED

I’m trying to stay out of this and concentrate my fire on the opposition but, in the words of Vic and Bob, ‘She will not let it lie!’ I doubt that Salmond will say what I’m going to say but it has to be said. In 2003, I argued that all leading politicians should have to study history so that, based on a degree in Law, they were not ignorant of the terrible facts of wars, all wars, including ones you might think justified. In 2015, in Washington, the new FM said on our behalf, without to my knowledge consulting … Continue reading Salmond doesn’t attack Sturgeon for going easy on murderous USA

Just not true, but as the Nazis thought, lie bigger and all the time and then the lie becomes true for most? Will the next opinion poll and the result in Ayr prove that Scots are not so gullible, any more? Really true: Nick? Continue reading Lies about care homes in the pointless pursuit of an SNP defeat

Many of you will remember Robinson’s bare-faced lie about Alex Salmond back in 2014. He still capable of a whopper. Today on BBC podcast, Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, Robinson put it to Jeanne Freeman that the UK’s highest death rate in care homes was in Scotland after many people were sent into care homes from hospital with the virus. It’s a bit of a repeat of an Andrew Marr line shouted at the first Minister last year. The answer is the same. In the First Wave in 2020, research from the University of Stirling: Care homes in England experienced the … Continue reading Disgraceful Nick Robinson returns to lie in our faces about care home deaths

After inviting us to watch with them the funeral of a victim of drug addiction, Reporting Scotland joined the other MSM to celebrate Scotland’s toll of Covid death. In sharp contrast BBC 1 News loyally promoted the Oxford vaccine’s safety and reminded viewers that deaths (far higher than in Scotland) were now very low. Reporting Scotland’s Glenn Campbell moved quickly to link the 10 000 deaths to hospital discharges into care homes telling us that the Health Secretary has ‘admitted’ that: ‘moving older people from hospital to care homes without safeguards was a mistake.’ All the usual subjects are then … Continue reading Reporting Scotland exposed by BBC 1 News

Once again failing to live up to their own self-perceptions: The Herald’s Caitlin Hutchison, unable to bear the excitement, prematurely claims the 10 000 deaths scoop. As I understand in the figure at the time of writing was 9 997 death certificate deaths so unless Caitlin knows something we don’t, we might need to wait another day before thinking up some way to blame Nicola for hitting this milestone, tombstone? I understand that love of the big number headline but was it, really, the news? How about the scientifically tested deaths? Only 1 today after a day when registration centres … Continue reading Why are Covid deaths twice as high in non-Scottish parts of UK?

A member of the Twitterati, Jonathan Rowson, was one of many impressed by Sarwar’s 6th-Year Prefect performance in the Leaders’ Debate, last week but outside the media bubbles, the public seem less impressed. After a brief honeymoon period when Labour soared to 23% in polls, they have now settled on 18% and 3rd place in the last 3. The much-maligned Douglas Ross has averaged 21% in the same polls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2021_Scottish_Parliament_election Continue reading Things looking bleak for Labour’s ‘cogent, fair, human, nimble, and trustworthy’ Sarwar