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Readers will remember Matt Hancock’s panicked attempt to make sure his crisis-ridden hospitals and care homes got not just the ‘lion’s share’ but all the PPE. Supplier’s such as Gompels were right behind him. And, yesterday, we heard that UK, Scottish taxpayer-funded, departments have been told to deny non-English health boards access to the their network of overseas links of PPE suppliers. Aren’t these shocking revelations. Imagine if they’d emerged in the weeks before the Independence Referendum of 2014? Anyhow, NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government have got the message: The BBC Scotland report is a classic. Apparently objective but … Continue reading NHS Scotland ‘get their finger out’ and SNP Government uses ‘two pronged strategy’ to ensure PPE supplies’

‘Yet while the war dead of some countries were too numerous to count, we should be mindful that ‘Scotland is small enough to know all her sons by heart’ My headline comes from the conclusions to a thorough examination of the facts published in May 2019. I missed it at the time and, I suspect out media did too. Correct me if I’m wrong on that and anything else in this piece, of course. With the UK media saturated with frankly disturbing jingoism based on myths about WWII, it seems like good moment to present this attempt to resolve the … Continue reading ‘It can be said with certainty that men born in Scotland did suffer disproportionately more deaths during the war’

In The Herald today based on his regular slot on Good Morning Scotland, Prof Pennington, Wishaw-renowned authority on 20th Century corned beef bacterial infections in Kirk sannies, was asked when he thought life might return to normal. It’s not clear if they meant normal in Wishaw, normal for an 82 year-old, or normal in some other way. Anyhow, the Prof appeared not to have a scoobie but did get in: ‘it would be a “great pity” if there was any divergence.’ So, Prof, never mind the R number, if Boris wants to open schools, our bairns will just have to … Continue reading Get your news from ‘credible’ and ‘trusted’ sources here! The Herald presents for you a bitter old Unionist you can trust!

From anandprasad In the Sun, country wide comparison of extra deaths. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11542171/englands-excess-death-rate-highest-europe-coronavirus/ The Financial Times does a great graph of this but not of the UK countrieshttps://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441 The Sun data comes from here: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ Z-scores:England: peak 43.5 in week 15, now 31.52 in week 18Scotland: peak at 15.65 in week 15, now 5.82 in week 18NI peak 8.8 in week 15, now -1.1 in week 18Wales peak 19.76 in week 15, now 2.44 in week 18 Z-score (y axis of Sun graph) defined as:Z-scores are used to standardize series and enable comparison mortality pattern between different populations or between different … Continue reading England’s excess death rate nearly THREE times higher than in Scotland

Oh yeh, sure they are! Four full polls put the SNP at between 50% and 54% and on target for a crushing victory over a feckless and delusional opposition. The Party Leader and First Minister is hugely approved of and trusted, in repeated polls with 90+% of SNP voters, more than half of Lib Dem and Labour voters and even 1 in 5 Tory voters. McQuillan, proud holder of a diploma in magazine journalism from City University in London was press officer for the Lib Dems from 1996 to 1998. Continue reading Don’t take any tips from Rebecca McQuillan

We know now that a panicked Matt Hancock did tell his department to pressurise PPE suppliers to prioritise English orders and to refuse health care orders from the three devolved nations. The evidence was clear: Now we hear in the report from yesterday’s Holyrood health committee that two UK departments, funded by the Scottish taxpayer, with extensive overseas trade links have been told not to support Scottish attempts to buy PPE Headlined by the Scotsman but behind their paywall when covid-related reports are expected to be freely available, the story does not, of course feature on the BBC Scotland site … Continue reading Shocking contempt for the Union as Scottish taxpayer-funded UK departments deny Scotland fair access to overseas PPE supply networks

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From sam Pied Piper anywhere? “Hospitals are infested with rats, fleas, ants and cockroaches, and many have leaking sewage pipes. Almost all hospitals have suffered from pests while two thirds have leaking roofs and pipes after years of raiding maintenance budgets to cover day-to-day spending.” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hospitals-plagued-by-rats-fleas-and-leaking-sewage-ks3pt6rnp Wot, no pigeons? “Droppings in an operating theatre, flies in a labour ward and a false widow spider are among the reasons pest control services were called to Welsh hospitals over the past five years. Ants and rats prompted the most call-outs but cockroaches, wasps, slugs and maggots were also spotted.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50737114 Different dates, … Continue reading Covid-19 Update: Hospital infections in non-Scottish parts of the UK