Perhaps still annoyed by having more complaints than any other BBC show in recent history, after his last interview with the First Minister, and realising that his clearance by the BBC was just another unconvincing whitewash, Marr opened grudgingly and still dishonestly with: The death rate is now below England. Now? Well since November 23rd, after being roughly the same for the whole pandemic period other than the only four weeks his staff found in October, and currently at only half the rate. In what seems now like an official line, he repeats the accusation that Scotland is behind England … Continue reading First Minister is ready this time and takes marr out with sharp jabs on jags

Interviewed by Marr this morning, Glenn Campbell updates viewers across the UK with ‘evidence’ that Scotland is only now just beginning to catch up on the rest of the UK’s vaccination rate, but is still well behind. Being the ‘pro’ that he is, he inserts: But the Scottish Government would say that is because they have been focusing, first of all on care homes. Why was that Glenn? Why do you think they did that, if it meant they fell behind? Do tell. No? Correct me if I’m wrong, Glenn, but didn’t the independent experts at the UK’s Joint Committee … Continue reading Senior BBC reporter ignorant of JCVI, SHOCK

Glenn Campbell on the Marr show this morning telling us about the ‘trend‘ in Scotland but not mentioning the trend because, well that’s 20 polls with a majority for Yes. Quite a newsworthy trend you’d think? Nope. 52% for Yes in the Times/Panelbase poll he tells us. What bout the No vote? Oh, I suppose it was 48%, so pretty tight? Well, without the Undecided, it was 49/44, a 5% lead. Back to that trend, how does this one compare? Well, the average over the last ten is 7.1%. Interesting? No? Too much hard work? Continue reading 20 times and climbing but Glenn Campbell does his best (worst)

From SNP Media: The SNP has warned that musicians and performers face a ‘double hit’ from the UK government if the Tories fail to act on EU touring visas, on top of three million freelance workers left without a penny of COVID support. Despite calls from SNP MPs and musical icons including Liam Gallagher and Elton John, the UK government has maintained their stance on the issue of EU touring visas – despite Brussels offering a solution during Brexit negotiations. Pete Wishart MP, who has passionately debated the subject in the Commons this week, has toured with world-renowned bands including … Continue reading PERFORMERS FACE ‘DOUBLE HIT’ AFTER TORY INACTION ON COVID SUPPORT AND TOURING VISAS

From the SNP Media Office: Scottish Labour leadership hopefuls Monica Lennon and Anas Sarwar have been challenged by the SNP to uphold the suspension of nine disgraced councillors.  After a shocking 40 months of inaction by the Labour leadership, the nine councillors were formally suspended from the party in October 2020 for propping up the Tories in a power-sharing deal on Aberdeen Council. The group caused outrage by claiming “the Tories have done more to improve the lives of people in disadvantaged communities in Aberdeen than the SNP have ever done”. Speaking last year, former leader Richard Leonard said: “it … Continue reading LABOUR LEADER HOPEFULS CHALLENGED OVER ROGUE COUNCILLORS

Reporting Scotland this evening: ‘The growing impact of the pandemic in health care staff has been highlighted by organisations representing Scottish nurses and doctors. The Royal College of Nursing says more and more of its members want to leave the profession and the British Medical Association says doctors are ‘stretched to the limit.’‘ David Cowan then interviewed two funeral directors outside the ‘vast hole‘ that is the Louisa Jordan Hospital. ‘Hole?’ ‘Hole?’ Space? Arena? Hole? So how was ‘the impact, highlighted?’ Well, the BMA guy didn’t appear at all and one RCN rep just told us. We’re worried about the … Continue reading Two health union reps, NO wait just one and no evidence whatsoever, but headlined by Reporting Scotland

There’s a prize for naming that song, that singer but it’s just my undying admiration, Young man! The Herald today: A further 76 people have died from Covid-19 in Scotland. Daily figures released by the Scottish Government revealed the death toll has been pushed to 5,704. Pushed to 5 704, eh? Sounds bad. It is bad but do you think we’ll ever recover from that? What’s the trend? The Herald treating you like a Bairnwean again. News for adults below: The infection rate falls for the 16th day in a row and by nearly 1 000. The mortality rate is higher than … Continue reading Numbers add up to nothing son!

From TuS regular feeder Nana Broffers Douglas Ross to complain about BBC Scotland’s pro-SNP bias. Continue reading Not to be repeated: World Health Organisation praises Scotland’s vaccination strategy on BBc Scotland

According to the experts, we can be ‘confident’ that more that 70% of people (across the UK) are not staying at home for the full period after displaying symptoms of Covid. The experts don’t seem to have noticed that the infection rate in Scotland is currently well below half that in England and only around two thirds of that in Wales and Northern Ireland, suggesting that maybe the compliance is better here. I’ve asked the researchers for a 4 nations breakdown of the their data but expect to hear that it’s somehow not available or ‘useful.’ Anyhow, this focus on … Continue reading Scapegoating the people: failing to self-isolate comes second to UK Government failures

There are more than 5 000 consultants in NHS Scotland. One, just one, has allegedly, but anonymously, told the Herald this: The pandemic has reinforced a belief amongst NHS staff that they should be willing to “sacrifice their own health for a salary”, a consultant working on the front line of Covid care has said. The doctor said the decision to delay the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine coupled with insubstantial testing and PPE meant that a lot of NHS staff had “lost confidence” in public health strategy around the virus. Remember this is: How can we trust the words of … Continue reading 0.018% of consultants complaining means ‘patchy supply’ of sources for journalists