Scotland’s ‘top pillar’ patient safety ignored as rogue BMA Scotland’s anti-SNP agenda is exposed in dishonest report for Times
Professor John Robertson OBA The above report, two days ago, in the Times, is just the latest in a stream of BMA Scotland activity which diverges from the BMA UK‘s tendency to report favourably on the Scottish Government’s handling of the NHS (more on this below). The findings referred to are from the General Medical Council‘s 2025 National Training Survey.1 In it, the word ‘safety‘ appears 9 times but is never linked to Scotland specifically. Indeed the only link of this kind is made to Norfolk University Hospitals Foundation Trust! As for ‘Scotland‘, this only appear in four tables which … Continue reading Scotland’s ‘top pillar’ patient safety ignored as rogue BMA Scotland’s anti-SNP agenda is exposed in dishonest report for Times
Despite computerised systems, DNA evidence from Nicola’s hairbrushes, mobile phone records and a big blue tent, the police investigation into ‘SNP fraud’ will soon take longer than the Yorkshire Ripper case
Professor John Robertson OBA, Crime Correspondent As Nicola Sturgeon speaks of the ordeal of being arrested and as MSM Monitor‘s question above waits to be answered, the trial of the SNP CE looks suspiciously likely to be set for the days just before the Holyrood election in May 2026. The Yorkshire Ripper investigation ran from August 1975 to January 1981, 5 years and six months, before Peter Sutciffe was charged with the murder of thirteen women. The excessive length of the investigation is attributed to the lack of a computerised system, DNA evidence or mobile phone evidence. Several tents were employed to cover the scenes of the … Continue reading Despite computerised systems, DNA evidence from Nicola’s hairbrushes, mobile phone records and a big blue tent, the police investigation into ‘SNP fraud’ will soon take longer than the Yorkshire Ripper case
Gaza protests – Why not target those who are part of the complicit Labour UK government?
By Liz S “Pro-Palestinian protesters STORM John Swinney’s Fringe appearance” There is a video on YouTube of this (via The Daily Mirror , the client media of the Labour party)…..call me cynical but there are (were) other political interviews during the Fringe and I wonder if some of these same ‘protestors’ or others will ‘protest’ or did ‘protest’ at these other political events (interviews) on the Fringe….. Anas Sarwar, from Labour was one of the other political interviewees at the Fringe and his interview was not subject to pro Palestine protests …..so why was he, as a Labour politician, exempt … Continue reading Gaza protests – Why not target those who are part of the complicit Labour UK government?
Academic’s research confirms that County Lines gangs plaguing Scottish towns and villages, fuelling drug deaths, is an exclusively English phenomenon
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Law Society of Scotland Journal in July 2025: Criminologist Ross Deuchar presents insights from his research into Scottish gang culture, and makes the case for the courts to apply supportive, problem-solving approaches to the teenagers and young adults affected. While in England young people are sent out from their own towns with drugs to be sold in provincial markets (known as ‘County Lines’ dealing; see Harding, 2020), the young men I interviewed tended to suggest that drugs are most commonly collected from afar before being brought back to Scotland and sold within or around … Continue reading Academic’s research confirms that County Lines gangs plaguing Scottish towns and villages, fuelling drug deaths, is an exclusively English phenomenon
Scotland does a better job of monitoring bathing water quality than England does
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this: In the Guardian today, the above map, and: England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leader board. The campaign group Best for Britain analysed the quality of bathing waters under UK and EU standards and found that across all four nations of the UK, holidaymakers are less likely to enjoy “excellent” quality waters than in the EU. Their research found … Continue reading Scotland does a better job of monitoring bathing water quality than England does
This headline is, factually inaccurate, misleading and offensive in a democracy
By stewartb Another example of the Daily Record plumbing the depths of political journalism in support of a British Labour Party politician choosing to mislead (or just lie) whilst talking down Scotland? (With apologies for the length of what follows but it seems to me to be an interesting illustration of engaging with an AI research tool.) I posed a series of questions to ChatGPT: ‘The Scottish newspaper, the Daily Record had this headline today 7 August: “Gordon Brown warns child poverty in Scotland is getting ‘worse every day’ as he calls for UK Government action”. Is the statistic claimed … Continue reading This headline is, factually inaccurate, misleading and offensive in a democracy
Homelessness – As another Labour MP is revealed as a self-serving hypocrite how the level in England is more than FOUR times higher than in Scotland
Professor John Robertson OBA As another UK Labour MP is revealed as a self-serving hypocrite, I was reminded of the above chart from the Guardian in April 2025. The Guardian did not, of course, bother to consider the interests of its readers elsewhere in the UK. From Homelessness in Scotland: 2023-24 published in September 2024: 53 549 people or a ratio of 99.26 per 10 000 people in Scotland’s 5.44 million. Continue reading Homelessness – As another Labour MP is revealed as a self-serving hypocrite how the level in England is more than FOUR times higher than in Scotland
As effectiveness of new UK Labour government plan to protect victims from released prisoners is questioned, a Scottish MP and former senior police officer explained the better Scottish system more than a year ago
Professor John Robertson OBA Today’s latest ‘back-of-a-cigarette-packet‘ plan by the UK Labour Government to protect victims from released violent offenders has been criticised by probation officers for lack of consultation and for certain failure as England’s tiny number of probation officers is swamped by new workload. In February 2024, Allan Dorans MP, the Scottish National Party’s then spokesperson on policing at Westminster and a former Detective Inspector with the Metropolitan Police, reported how a disclosure scheme in Scotland had been much more successful, as had wider efforts to reduce violent crime north of the border. Writing in Policing Insight, Dorans … Continue reading As effectiveness of new UK Labour government plan to protect victims from released prisoners is questioned, a Scottish MP and former senior police officer explained the better Scottish system more than a year ago
Not another one
By Liz S Last year in October there was an article on the BBC website. “Scottish government avoids defeat over housing emergency ‘failure’” “Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar put forward the motion which was debated by MSPs at Holyrood. It was defeated by 60 votes to 54 with eight abstentions”. “Instead, a motion amended by the government which removed the claim it had failed in responding to the emergency passed by 59 votes to 55 with eight abstentions”. “Sarwar stated homelessness on the rise” and he also said “Every number a human being in need of help and every missed … Continue reading Not another one
Audit Scotland’s shockingly ageist report implies a link but offers no evidence of absent older workers and offensively ignores value of proven reliability and experience in older council workers and teachers
Professor John Robertson OBA (74) ‘Our’ media this morning are full of negative reporting based on increasing absence rates among council workers including teachers, who are older on average than the general population. They are much-helped by Audit Scotland‘s framing of their report as Strain clear across Scotland’s local government workforce and its saturation-level ageism which can find no advantages in having a workforce in these complex areas – schools, housing, care, engineering and so on. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://audit.scot/uploads/2025-07/bv_250807_workforce_thematic.pdf Once more it’s propaganda from Audit Scotland of a kind the national auditors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland see no need for. … Continue reading Audit Scotland’s shockingly ageist report implies a link but offers no evidence of absent older workers and offensively ignores value of proven reliability and experience in older council workers and teachers
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