By Liz S “Latest Tory proposal is to prevent the Scottish Parliament from pursuing its own vision, goals and objectives”! What Bowie stated in his speech, in that a future Tory government would ove…

The evidence on justice is in, the results are clear, and the conclusion is inescapable: Scotland makes better decisions when Scotland decides for itself.

Cadmium? One of the main effects of cadmium poisoning is weak and brittle bones. The bones become soft (osteomalacia), lose bone mineral density (osteoporosis), and become weaker. This results in j…

From the Guardian today, the above, and: The Labour chair of the Commons housing committee is urging John Healey to bring forward billions of pounds of planned spending on social and affordable hom…

From BBC Scotland yesterday: Police Scotland has said 45 serving officers are currently suspended over allegations of violence against women and girls. There are currently 16 402 FTE police officer…

From BBC Scotland yesterday, the above and: Staff sickness was a major factor behind the critical incident declared by NHS Grampian last month, its chief executive has said. A board-level critical …

From BBC Scotland today: Transport Secretary Stephen Flynn told a Holyrood committee he knew nothing about a gas leak on board a CalMac ferry, despite records showing he had been emailed about the …

BBC Scotland’s Lisa Summers trying to keep up the exaggerated image of the significance of Scotland’s National Maternity Review interviewing the Chair, Professor Christine McCourt and c…

investigates violence. Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary is also looking at Police Scotland’s approach to repeat offenders and victims. So, quickly, we’ve done this so many …

It’s with great pleasure that I can reveal the significantly increased audience and the presumably connected surge in our output of well-researched rebuttals of media lies and revelations of …

By stewartb The Tories – that very same party which has failed, often by a long way, to win any national or UK election in Scotland since the mid 1950s – has the gall to threaten to downgrade the S…

Harriet Cross was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and grew up in West Cork, Ireland where her mother was from. She attended Bandon Grammar School in Bandon, County Cork before the family moved t…

I know the AI images are childish but hey, let’s have a laugh as we go? From June Agricultural Census 2026 published today: Results from the June Agricultural Census 2026 were published today…

From Training support for up to 2,400 parents published today: Up to 2,400 parents will be able to access training at colleges across Scotland to enter or progress in work. As part of the Scottish …

From New winter health plan to ease hospital pressures published today: Expanded Hospital at Home services, a public awareness campaign and targeted investment to reduce waiting lists are all part …

Let onto the top of the front page of the Herald today, the above. Oh, really, wee Eck? Have a look at this. Sox 65 MSPs gives you a voting majority and the SNP/Greens combination has 72? Remind me…

From STV today, the above and: Scotland could cut the most extreme homelessness by nearly half within just the next two years, a study has found. The number of Scots facing the worst forms of homel…

By stewartb Are comparisons between the constituent parts of the UK only deemed newsworthy by the editors of public service broadcasters when they can be framed as unfavourable to Scotland? Beyond …

Here is another story linked to another UK party that, so far, the BBC have avoided on their website, yet as a situation it is shocking for Scotland and devolution, but it’s not surprising it’s bei…

By Liz S Clearly the BBC are yet again ‘gunning for Swinney” on behalf of a (pro) UK party (just as they also did , and still are doing, to former FM’s who were SNP leaders). That is their BBC 24/7…

18-week hospital waiting time target in England – that’s according to the warning from think-tank the Health Foundation. Across the BBC this morning and in the Telegraph, the above and:…

By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman”  “Great question from Claire Baker” they said. Really? I think there’s a pretty big hole in Claire’s question or at least in the …

BBC Scotland’s Debate Night indulged in slagging off Glasgow based on no figures whatsoever and one old dear remembering fondly the period from the 1930s to the 1960s when the city and its ra…

From Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2025 statistics – Published 06 October 2026 The Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2025 statistics, published today…

From the Scottish Government today: More than 250 paid NHS placements will be made available to parents across Scotland as part of Scottish Government efforts to eradicate child poverty. The paid p…

NHS Scotland total planned operations and percentage of cancelled planned operations by reason from August 2024 to August 2026 From Cancelled planned operations Month ending 31 August 2026 publishe…

Percentage of last six months of life spent at home or in a community setting; 2016/17 – 2025/26 From Percentage of end of life spent at home or in a community setting Financial years ending …

In the Guardian today, the above and: Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according …

Whilst it’s good to see lots of people now separating themselves from Stuart Campbell’s disgraceful hate blog yesterday after his latest publications, it’s also so overdue as to b…

The above impending financial, then inevitably, educational chaos comes on the heels of research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies revealing how just far behind Scotland, in terms of the crucial …

BBC Scotland yesterday, trying desperately to distract from the main issue by getting FM John Swinney in bother with this: Will Swinney face a Holyrood probe? Let’s not be distracted. Here ar…

The ‘Terrible Twenty-Six!’ This was a shameful abuse of statistics by STV yesterday: Nearly 70% of Police Scotland officers currently suspended while under criminal investigation are ac…

In the Ailing Scotsman today, Jackie Baillie turns up to lie about walk-in clinics. The facts: From the Scottish Government 26 August 2026: First Minister John Swinney has announced 24 more areas w…

In the Scotsman yesterday, the above and: A long-awaited review aimed at identifying “systemic changes” to Scotland’s crisis-hit maternity services has begun. The nine month-long nationwide review …

From UK research – Children in relative poverty before housing costs This indicator shows the percentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families Before Housing Costs …

From Maternity Care Survey 2025: national report published today, the above and: Between 2018 and 2025, the percentage of women rating their overall care as “good” or “excellent” has remained stabl…

if a tenant reports damp or mould. New legislation aims to hold those in the private and social sector accountable for carrying out necessary repairs within strict timescales. Awaab’s Law is …

From BBC Scotland today: In 2017, MSPs passed a law requiring ministers to hit four targets, external, including pushing the share of children in relative poverty below 10% by 2030. But the JRF&#82…

By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman”  Here we go again! Apparently, the evil nasty Scottish Government Ministers are about to “hammer hard-up Scots” because certain m…

From the Joseph Rowntree Trust in 2025: Projected child poverty rates by January 2029: NationThen-current rate usedProjected by Jan 2029Scotland23.7%21.8%England30.8%31.5%Wales32.3%34.4%Northern Ir…

It has attracted strong praise from respected poverty experts, with some describing it as exceptional even by European standards. These are among the strongest attributable statements: FigureQuote …

The above was in the Daily Record yesterday. Where are UK drug dealers ‘Thickboar’ and ‘Octo-hand’ from? They are cousins from Merseyside, in the Liverpool area in England. …

By Liz S Tory HQ Puppet , the irrelevant Russell Findlay, has been mouthing of again on his favourite subject, Scottish independence. The BBC (of course) have an article where it states: “Scottish …

In the Guardian today: Lawyers and campaigners have condemned the “horrifying” scale of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools after a Guardian investigation revealed thousands of sexual offences a…

Newton-on-Ayr Railway Station statistically* the most dangerous railway station in Scotland but only the 67th most dangerous in the UK. The Guardian today has: ‘The violence is off the scale’: staf…

and the Scottish Government’s on course to miss legally binding targets to cut poverty ‘by a wide margin.’ That’s come from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s annual rep…

A truer image of the UK and Scotland within it: From rtpscott today, in Talking-up Scotland: Speaking about papers there is a picture of the UK in the Sunday (Yoon) Paper today which is more or les…

From the SNP, two days ago, the above and: If you ever needed a textbook example of Westminster’s breathtaking contempt for the people of Scotland, Andy Burnham has just delivered it on a silver pl…