George Square Glasgow this morning. https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/webcams/glasgow_united-kingdom_2648579 Lanark this morning. https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/webcams/glasgow_united-kingdom_2648579 The Herald’s David Leaks this morning: How Rome’s rubbish emergency mirrors Scotland’s own litter woes Is some Scottish Labour communications officer just back from Rome and thinks: ‘If Jackie Baillie can compare a serial baby killer to a water-born fungus, why can’t I do Rome and Scotland?’ Continue reading George Foulkes accuses SNP Council of keeping streets clean on purpose?

The Herald has this today: Scottish students from deprived backgrounds are far less likely to get into university than their equivalents south of the border, the Scottish Conservatives have claimed. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23749348.pupils-deprived-backgrounds-less-university-access/ Once more, a journalist accepts Tory propaganda based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Higher Education in Scotland. UCAS only deals with 2/3rds of the University Applications for Scottish universities the other 1/3rd are processed in Scotland and probably consist of those going to a local College, first to do HNC & HND level, then transferring into University and those doing the Direct Access route. Both of these routes are … Continue reading Higher Education access in Scotland misunderstood to facilitate Tory propaganda

In a sadly not astonishing bit of shoddy journalism headlining for BBC Scotland this morning, we read: ‘With so many changes, Glasgow’s lost its heart’ This is the view of a ‘Ms Bermingham’ (a surname variant of ‘Birmingham’), one of only three interviews that form the basis for this negative assessment. Only, one of the three seems to have lived anywhere else to compare Glasgow with and he (above) says: He said: “I like the atmosphere in Glasgow. There’s lots going on and there’s a good student culture. “I don’t think the area needs much redevelopment, not like a overhaul … Continue reading ‘Thriving!’ English student gives informed opinion on Glasgow and must have wondered where Sarwar’s piles of rubbish are

Readers will remember Depute Labour Leader Jackie Baillie’s suggestion that there were parallels between the Lucy Letsby multiple serial baby killer case and the two deaths perhaps linked to, perhaps not, water supply infection, in a very safe, based on the facts, Glasgow hospital. I see more obvious parallels between the toxic masculinity and sexual abuse in the Spanish FA, though perhaps less so, in the Scottish Labour party? Remember this from November 2017? SCOTS Labour chief Alex Rowley left his ex-lover an emotional wreck by bombarding her with abusive messages, she claimed last night. The mum, 49, alleges she … Continue reading Baillie insists there are no parallels between extreme misogyny in Scottish Labour and the Spanish FA

Dear Anonymous – turn back! This will just annoy you again. From the Scottish Sun on 16 May 2018: HAMILTON ACCIES flop who walked out on the Lanarkshire club after just two weeks is in a two-way fight be elected as president of the Spanish FA. Accies signed Luis Rubiales in 2009 with then-manager Billy Reid delighted to welcome the former Alicante and Malaga defender to the club. But Rubiales managed just four appearances for the Superseal stadium outfit before his one-year contract was terminated by mutual consent. He left Accies after citing ‘family reasons’ for his quick exit and returned … Continue reading Daft Post Alert – Hamilton Accies flop faces calls to resign again

By cuckooshoe yesterday: There are warnings of thunderstorms in parts of Scotland today. Although there have been no thunderstorms in Glasgow’s South Side, there have been several heavy downpours. Only in June STV and BBC Scotland jinxed Scotland’s summer by warning their viewers of severe water shortages. The heavy downpours today reminded me of flooding in parts of the South Side in the past. The reason why it is in the past is because of this achievement.  https://www.mgsdp.org/index.aspx?articleid=21107 Scottish Water’s flagship Shieldhall Tunnel project, in the south of Glasgow, is the biggest waste water tunnel ever to be built in … Continue reading Scottish Government-funded flood protection project 5 times longer than the Clyde saves Glasgow South Side but in Labour Wales…

From BBC Wales this morning: A man with skin cancer says “cruel” waits for biopsy results left him fearing a possible death sentence. Steve Westover, 73, from Ystalyfera, Neath Port Talbot, noticed a pimple on his head which was growing and turning black. He had the lump removed and was told it was probably cancer. But Steve waited more than two months for biopsy results, despite being told he was high priority. Swansea Bay Health Board said it was unable to comment on individual cases. Welsh Labour Government? 33 paragraphs later, only this: A Welsh Government spokesperson said it welcomed … Continue reading Despite far longer cancer wait times, Welsh Labour are not to blame it seems – NHS Scotland shocking 31% faster to treat

The Herald has just reported the rescue of 8 canoeists off Mallaig, in a storm, by the MV Coruisk, a 93* year-old CalMac ferry. A source has told TuS that the eight are part of Labour Party ‘exiles’ group led by Jeremy Corbyn and were following weather advice from Labour HQ’s meteorological division, headed up a Tony Starmer Jnr. On being put ashore, Corbyn is quoted as saying. I was wrong, just like every other nation including Pakistan that has managed to break free from the British Empire, so should Scotland. I don’t know what I was thinking back in … Continue reading Corbyn to campaign for Scottish independence after CalMac rescue

From Public Health Scotland on 22 August 2023: The number of examinations paid in the quarter ending June 2023 was 782,783; an increase of 8% compared to the previous quarter (727,751). There were 1,025,251 NHS primary dental claims paid in the quarter ending June 2023. This represents an increase of 6% from 964,449 in the previous quarter. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-dental-treatments-report-quarterly/nhs-dental-treatment-statistics-quarter-ending-30-june-2023 A reminder on access to free NHS dentistry in Scotland: 95.4% of the Scottish population were registered with an NHS dentist as at 30 September 2022. Nearly all adults living in the most deprived areas were registered with an NHS dentist in September 2022, compared … Continue reading NHS dentistry treatment increases for fourth quarter in a row

Jackie Baillie accused me of attacking the pupils of the school where the Rutherglen by-election Labour candidate teaches, when I revealed the poor performance of his Modern Studies department. Today, she equates the criminal neglect of the Countess of Chester hospital’s senior staff and administrators in allowing a serial killer to murder more than seven babies, with an infection outbreak in a Glasgow hospital ‘linked’ to but never proven to be causal in the deaths of two babies. Nauseating? More? Here’s the fact-check I did in December 2021 which concluded that the QEUH is one of the safest in the … Continue reading Disgusting Jackie Baillie comparisons of Lucy Letsby case with Glasgow Hospital – one of safest in the UK