Sometimes I wonder why even the Herald’s puzzling health correspondent has gone with a story choice and direction. She writes today: Hugh (77) had been due to fly back to Scotland in mid-January? Via London? In the middle of lockdown in both countries? For a non-essential purpose? As deaths in his age group were high? As hospitals were filling up? Why didn’t he stay in Taragona until it was safe to return? Is this another self-entitled, self-centred individual? Why couldn’t he and not the hubs be more flexible. Will the Herald report any old thing for clicks? Footnote: Walker is … Continue reading Am I the only one feeling zero sympathy

With no sense of irony, in the lucky-for-him virtual, company of the PM, Douglas Ross attacked the SNP. Leaving aside his Aberdeenshire pals with a fondness for grabbing and snogging good-looking lads at events or in the members’ bar, it’s a bit rich. In 2017 Guido Fawkes shared a redacted spreadsheet of Tory sleaze: Continue reading Douglas Ross NOT one of 36 top sleazy Tory sex pests

Scottish experts such as professors Bauld and Sridhar are strongly supportive of the Scottish Government’s strategy for school re-opening. The Unionist parties are split, with the Tories wanting to go faster and Labour working with the EIS to suggest it’s too fast and risky. Today, BBC Scotland feels no need to resolve this for viewers but just hops conveniently from one position to the other, knowing both are SNP-bad positions. Knowing that Bauld and Sridhar will defend the Scottish government strategy on this, they, once more dig up Dr Gurdasani from London to say it’s wrong and dangerous. In February, … Continue reading BBC Scotland’s go-to English academic knows nothing but feels able to advise us again

In the Daily Telegraph today, something many of us have known for a long time – the UK’s death toll in the pandemic was the highest in Europe because of a failure to lockdown quickly and, in particular, save care home residents. The suggestion that the PM ‘was let down by scientific advisers‘ is, of course, only partly true in that he and at least his chief political adviser, Dominic Cummings, were strongly predisposed to want the ‘business-friendly’ advice that the virus should be allowed to run through the population, creating herd immunity and as the PM famously said of … Continue reading Boris reveals the cost of Union: TWO THOUSAND lives lost

Two more polls today confirm England’s steady irreversible drift into an ethnic nationalist nightmare. Survation have the Tories 6 points ahead of Labour and Opinium a shocking 10 points clear. It doesn’t matter what they do. Waste billions outsourcing test and trace to the wife of a donor, give PPE contracts by the million to chums, breach the ministerial codes over and over or earn the highest death rates in the world. They did just one thing the English voters love – stick it to the French by sneaking in quick and grabbing the lion’s share of the vaccines. As … Continue reading No future in England’s dreaming

Once more working against a national effort to save lives, BBC Scotland headlines the self-centred interests of a business group over the lives of the very people paying the licence that supports their output: Hospitality leaders have urged the Scottish government to change its Covid lockdown levels to stop businesses failing. An industry group has submitted its own version of the system to ministers. The document, seen by the BBC, urges ministers to mirror the plans for England – extending opening times and naming dates. Mirror the plans for England? Interesting, how have their plans worked out so far? England … Continue reading Eat out to die out?

It doesn’t matter how often you tell them, this group or graduates working for the fine but fake-sounding Educational Institute of Scotland, can’t seem to grasp the facts. Here they are again: Throughout the pandemic, teachers were among the least likely to pay the ultimate price for the dedication their representatives never tire of telling us about. Carers were 4 times as likely to die. Tradesmen were nearly 5 times as likely to die. Hardly any profession was less likely to die. Why? Because children are less likely to spread the virus, end of! At nearly 70, with a few … Continue reading Pay Attention, teachers are among the least likely to die

Mark Devlin, a man so committed to the Union he has spent most of his adult life in Japan and the USA, has returned to launch ‘a new anti-Nationalist site‘ for Scotland. Devlin is responsible for the #RESIGNSTURGEON billboards and the flypast. It’s not clear who is funding this venture. His choice of pals given him way. Devlin has recruited Jill Stephenson, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University and expert on Nazi Germany, who called SNP MP Mhairi Black a “slut”. In 2015, the prof said: “If electors vote for a foul-mouthed slut like M Black, it says a lot … Continue reading Pro-Union blogger hosts abusive professor and sectarian sympathiser

In response to the suggestion that the Scottish Government is ‘digging its heels in’ against women’s voices with regard to the Hate Crime Bill, stewartb has provided us with this clarification: ‘The Working Group on Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland has been set up to independently consider how the Scottish criminal justice system deals with misogyny. This includes looking at whether there are gaps in the law that could be addressed by a specific criminal offence to tackle such behaviour.” Source: https://www.gov.scot/groups/misogyny-and-criminal-justice-in-scotland-working-group/ “The group will also consider whether a statutory aggravation and/or a stirring up of hatred offence in relation … Continue reading For those unhappy about the ‘exclusion of women’ from the Hate Crime Bill

I am technically an old white guy though I do take a suspiciously good tan in the summer and I will not go the way of author Kingsley Amis. Amis is the classic example of the young lefty atheist who in more affluent, propertied but less-potent, middle and old age, drifted to the right and became a High Anglican conservative. Perhaps the best Scottish example is Alistair Darling who, of course, came to prefer the word ‘NO’ over all others in 2014: There is also John Reid, Communist Party, in 1975 with me at Stirling University: At least they’ve gone … Continue reading Why do some old white guys get so ‘right’ mean?