In June 2022, 71.3% of attendances at Scottish A&E services were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within 4 hours. In the same month, in England, only 58.8% wer…

The health secretary is given the award just five months after taking on the role in Nicola Sturgeon's cabinet.

BBC Scotland’s political editor Glenn Campbell is infamous for his anti-SNP news reports. It started back in 2007 when he ripped up the SNP…

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 …

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…

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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…

After watching her with Laura Interruptus Kuenssberg and observing the frothing Tory reactions on social media, I did a quick Twitter poll: In the space of an hour, nearly 500 responded with 91.4% …

Only 31.8% in 4 hours? In Europe? No… From Public Health Scotland today, for September 2022: 69% of attendances at A&E services were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer …

Media coverage tends to concentrate on negative facts. For example, last Sunday (11 June 2023), on one of the busiest days for tourism this year, CalMac had 379 timetabled sailings with 98.9% on ti…

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…

Scottish Health Secretary, Michael Matheson Thanks to an inadvertent slip by BBC UK via their How long do patients wait for an ambulance? app today, we can confirm that the average waiting time for…

Early evidence suggests alcohol related deaths in Glasgow have fallen by a fifth.

Yesterday from Peter Brookes in the Times, a snide and offensive take on the SNP’s supposed troubles. Last year, we had: Martin Rowson with another dim-witted stereotype of Scots to conceal t…

But Conservative minister says the 'silent majority' of MPs will take it

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…

From CalMac at 9.23am yesterday but still not being reported by BBC Scotland Yesterday CalMac had 520 planned sailings to nearly 40 locations and only 2 of those failed to be on time. Those 2 were …

According to BBC Scotland, not quite so proud of the former FM: Secondary school children in England were required to wear face coverings to avoid a row with Scotland over Covid, the Daily Tel…

Images: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/Press Association Images and BBC Scotland New Survation poll of 3 000 UK adults between 16th to 23rd April, on trust in institutions, puts the Scottish Government we…

High winds and a heavy swell result in the cancellation of CalMac services between Brodick and Ardrossan.

Michael Matheson, UK’s more effective health secretary In the Guardian today: More than half of all hospitals in England and over two-thirds of those in London offer substandard care, an …

A review by a senior lawyer into the procurement of the delayed Ferguson Marine ferries found no evidence of fraud, though parts of the process were “not entirely satisfactory”. It comes a...

This shows that the average council tax payable per dwelling has generally increased more slowly in real terms in Scotland than in either England or Wales, and has decreased more frequently. In rea…

No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.

The RAJAR report this week suggests: BBC Radio Scotland has lost a fifth of all listeners in a year, according to the latest audience numbers. The figures published by the research body Rajar,…

Image: Lewis Mackenzie@minchpilot On Boxing Day, as weather conditions improved and before Storm Gerrit struck, Scotland’s government-owned ferry service helped thousands travel to and from f…

Reader Rosie Andrew tipped me off on this. You might remember Jackson Carlaw saying, at FM Questions, two days ago: It is also reported today that the ratio of care home deaths is double that of th…

Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this. From the Guardian today: Newly-qualified teachers are planning to quit the UK to teach abroad because of abject pay and conditions in schools at home,…

Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this. Today, the BMA estimate that 2 million operations have been lost to strikes. Using a method happily employed by BBC Scotland in the past, to attribute hea…

Headlining across ‘Scotland’s’ MSM today, stories of alleged ‘murky finances’ turn out to be just auditors advising that small donations of under £250 need to have a p…

David Boswell's victims were frightened of him as children and continue to feel that way, a court hears.

TO misquote Field of Dreams, the 1989 baseball drama starring Kevin Costner, if you build it, they will come.

Since a Mull councillor shouted that CalMac was the ‘worst ferry service in the world’, unchallenged on BBC Scotland, a few months ago, I’ve been scouring for evidence. I’ve…

From the Herald today: That Joseph Rowntree Foundation claim will be all over UK media today, won’t it? No?

NICOLA Sturgeon appeared visibly upset as she was pressed by a Labour MSP over her attitude to care homes amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rise in renewables and decline in coal-fired power leads to cleanest year on record for electrical energy

and getting much less in return. BBC Reporting Scotland is happily reporting the above outrageous lie by the opposition parties as if it was a credible claim. 114 000 will pay the new advanced rate…

Thanks to cuckooshoe for this. Above from Spice (Scottish Parliament) today. Council tax reminder: From data gathered by the House of Commons Library

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 …

SNP Transport Secretary In April 2023, ScotRail transferred into public control and ownership In 2022/2023, ScotRail cancelled 2.9% of planned journeys (source below) up from 2.8% in 2021/2022 but …

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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…

GETTY IMAGES Today, from SNP Media, for immediate release: SCOTLAND OUTPERFORMS UK IN BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING113,000 HOUSES BUILT SINCE 2007Scotland continues the trend of outperforming the res…

Not, of course, featuring anywhere else in the MSM nor even on the BBC Scotland website, this selective little piece will only see the light of day on Reporting Scotland’s wee radio sister, G…

Another desperate (no ”) attempt by the Scotsman to turn a problem being tackled by the Scottish Government into a crisis in which their actions seem to be invisible. Nowhere in that front pa…

There are no data in the above BBC Scotland report based on one doctor’s impressions. BBC UK is not reporting this. From Public Health Scotland: At 31 December 2021, 419,230 patients were wai…

From How covid-19 spreads: narratives, counter narratives, and social dramas, published in the BMJ in 2022: Public masking became a libertarian lightning rod. Libertarianism is a political ideology…

The original contract for Edinburgh trams was signed when Labour held power (Image: Newsquest) In the Scotsman, last week: The Edinburgh Trams have made a net loss of more than £44 millio…

Douglas Ross and the Ayrshire List MSP, Sharon Dowey, who should know the story is a big lie The story is now two days old and has been fully exposed as a lie but BBC Scotland are keeping it up pro…