Yesterday, Douglas Ross confronted the FM with his story of a patient waiting more than 80 hours in an Ayrshire A&E. The FM agreed to investigate but today, before she needed to do so, someone …

George Square today as two busloads of Larkhall pensioners trigger police fears of a pigeon-feeding frenzy – Image NQ SNP hackers have clearly inserted the above image into a BBC Scotland web…

Professor Thomas Hale – Associate Professor in Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government; Fellow of St Antony’s College 20 per 100 000 fewer deaths during the pandemic is mor…

In the Herald today with a sad wee ‘but’: The above nestled in a set of accusations, headlined Police not investigating Scots ferry fiasco despite complaints, from the Scottish Cons and…

action to meet targets – that’s according to MSPs on Holyrood’s Health and Social Care Committee. No doubt they’ll claim it was a very short report with no time for any mean…

Before the General Election in the local Ayrshire newspapers: Elaine Stewart, Labour candidate said: “As someone who works daily with children and young people in some of the affected communi…

First Minister in 2023, Humza Yousaf – Getty Images From the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey core module 2023, published today: In 2023, 47% of people trusted the Scottish Government to work…

Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc. Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg From the Guardian today: The NHS is to hand a key role in handling patient data and shar…

A survey has found that only 2.2% of 414 respondents in a poll asking if Fiona Bruce, chair of the troubled BBC Question Time show was fair and balanced , agree with the notion. Others have comment…

The government insists the law, coming into force on Monday, is needed to protect victims but critics say it limits freedom of expression

Many thanks to for alerting me to this. It’s only a telephone sub-poll of 203 Scots weighted down to 176 but, today on the day, Ipsos, the most trusted pollster because they’re based in…

(c) BBC Scotland imagined headlines As BBC Scotland dwell on Scotland’s higher Covid infection rate, the good news above is ignored. Despite soaring attendances, from 122 000 in April 22 to 1…

action to meet targets – that’s according to MSPs on Holyrood’s Health and Social Care Committee. No doubt they’ll claim it was a very short report with no time for any mean…

In the Guardian today, their Education editor daft enough to to use a Glasgow Uni shot, writes: UK universities face financial turmoil as figures from the Home Office show plunging numbers of inter…

The Scottish media love to report a single poll result and to use that to predict dramatic shifts in voter intentions. Those with more between the ears like to look at more substantial evidence ove…

Newsweek’s 2023 research analysed more than 2,300 hospitals across 28 countries to create the league.

Thanks to reader Scott for alerting us to this: Moray Council needs to take a decision on what to do with unused temporary classrooms as a matter of urgency. The cabins were bought for almost …

This site costs nothing to run so donate to our friends at   Jackie Baillie MSP (Labour) and Lord George Foulkes (Labour) succeeded in sabotaging the First Minister’s Covid updates. Foulkes b…

Former first minister says she ‘will get on with her job’ in statement outside Glasgow home raided by police last week

I felt it in my bones as I watched. This heavy-handed theatrical assault on Chez Sturgeon was just going to piss off the SNP support and pull back any waverers. SNP supporters feel free to criticis…

Thanks to Anonymous for alerting me to this. In 2022 (latest data), Ayrshire and Arran saw 630 000 overnight visitors and 4.2 million UK day-trippers, 2.11 million nights were spent in accommodatio…

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. Tod…

Anonymous Scotland raises £87Billion in tax revenues. Up from £76Billion. Scotland spends £54Billion. More pro rata than raised in the rest of the UK. (£644Billion} The UK raises £731Billion (down …

From a Freedom of Information response published yesterday: Information requested At FMQs on At FMQs on 20th June 2024, John Swinney said this: Evidence shows that new nuclear is more expensive tha…

NHS spent £10m relocating women and girls from hospitals in England since 2017, putting recovery at risk, say experts

Scotland’s Minister for Drugs Policy in 2022, Angela Constance (rt)Image: Getty From healthandcare.scot, seven days ago: An independent evaluation of a mass media campaign on how to prevent d…

South of Scotland, List, not really elected by anyone, not really Ayr MSP, Sharon Dowey is almost on the books at the Daily Record doing an impersonation of BBC Scotland’s Unhealthy Correspon…

Cornwall in 2022: (Image: Surfers Against Sewage) Bob Lamont The “shocking” BBC Scotland headline is on instruction from London, ���make smoke”, to cover increasing Tory embarrassment as public anger…

Twisted words By Professor John Robertson In April 2024: BMA Scotland, headed up by Dr Iain Kennedy, who has now shed the union flag on his twitter account, have a piece on consultant vacancies all…

the railways is expected. BBC Scotland this morning, tell us that around half of the draft bills in the King’s Speech will apply ‘here in some shape or form’ including re-national…

BBC Scotland have been headlining this today: Warning Scotland’s court backlogs could take years to clear From Boyle’s actual report this: Criminal courts backlog (audit-scotland.gov.uk…

The Sunday Times today is gleefully reporting: Labour will defeat SNP at the next election for the first time since 2010 to become Scotland’s largest party at Westminster, according to a landmark n…

I’m not, generally, a big fan of GDP as a measure of economic well-being – GDP can go up at the same time as poverty increases in some areas. However, ‘our’ media love to tr…