Yesterday, I drew attention, prompted by Bill Cruickshank, to the above poll outlier suggesting far stronger support for No (6%) than the Panelbase poll at roughly the same time, which had No 1% behind Yes. Prompted again (I need that) by readers Scott and pd0930, I scrolled down the TechneUK website to find that their 4 Italian senior staff, had only these two UK consultants: DR SPENCER PITFIELD...

The Guardian spends half its time complaining about the archaic, corrupt Westminster system and the other half campaigning to stop anyone from doing anything about it. The latest installment in the Guardian’s campaign to tell us that if it’s Anglo-British nationalism, it can’t be nationalist is a clueless article from Martin Kettle which even by […]

The new bid for Scottish Independence is started. It does not matter how each of us got here, who had which idea first, what might be a better plan, who stabbed who in the back. It is gone. Let it be. Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn before the high altar of a church during […]The post Don’t Look Back in Anger appeared first on Craig Murray.

From Public Health Scotland today: Quarterly uptake rates remained high in Scotland; around 96% of children had received each routine immunisation by the time they were 12 months old, with the exception of rotavirus vaccine, which had 94.5% uptake. 94.4% of children had the first dose of MMR vaccine by 24 months of age. This rose to 95.9% for children who had reached age 5....

Leaving aside the fact that ‘Sturgeon’ is neither the responsible head of a health board nor is she the Health Secretary, the Herald report by Tom Gordon, headlines the 62-day target from urgent suspicion of cancer referral to first cancer treatment being met for only 76.9% of patients. The above is correct but selective, in that the other target of 31 days from decision to treat to...

As most readers will know, I'm a member of the Alba Party's NEC, but I'm not going to be churlish about this - Nicola Sturgeon's statement today at last contained the clarity that we've been crying out for ever since the Brexit referendum six long years ago.  She'll try to hold a legal referendum on 19th October 2023, and if the Supreme Court strikes that down, she'll use the 2024 Westminster...

Nowhere in Scotland’s MSM coverage today, this fantastic news: Of the 8,202 referrals to community-based specialist drug and alcohol treatment services completed in this quarter [January to March 2022], 92% involved a wait of three weeks or less....

In the Herald today, by Tom Gordon: The ‘think-tank’ in question, presented as independent, is headed up by former Labour leader, Lord Jack MacConnell, regular media critic of the SNP and Scottish Government, journalist Chris Deerin and, as research director, by Alison Payne. There are no credible researchers at that level nor on the wider team. We were here in February 2022 when I...

On Thursday, Labour under Keir Starmer got a lower percentage of the vote in Wakefield than they did in 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn. In 2017 Labour got 49.7%. On Thursday they got 47.9%. I want you to think that through. Inflation is soaring. Consumer confidence in the economy has gone through a steeper plummet, and […]The post The Pointless Keir Starmer appeared first on Craig Murray.

Why is Nicola Sturgeon in that insert, above? She is not quoted in the article. The Transport Secretary is not quoted either, nor is the CE of Transport Scotland: So, an official might have suggested scaling back landings but we do noy, even for that official, have a quotable proposal. Returning to the First Minister being pictured as some how responsible for the words, perhaps, of an official in...

By stewartb Conscious of being too ill-informed, I have just read through the formal case reports of the Westminster Parliament’s independent expert panels investigating complaints against, separately the SNP MPs Patrick Grady and Patricia Gibson. My immediate reaction? How is it possible that so little of what is evidenced and so little of the panels’ carefully considered judgements have...

Great to visit Ayr Housing Aid today with Peter Henderson SNP for Girvan & South Carrick for their coffee morning in aid of the The Trussell Trust.

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In the Herald: HUMZA Yousaf has been accused of “gross negligence” after the number of patients waiting too long in Scotland’s A&E units rose again. The SNP Health Secretary was condemned after official figures showed more than 30 per cent of those attending casualty last week waited longer than the four hour target....

By stewartb The current rail disputes have revealed the two-faced nature of Toryism in Scotland. On the Scottish Conservative Party’s website one finds this dated 26 May 2022: ‘Stop Sturgeon’s ScotRail Cuts’. It relates to Scotrail’s response to the dispute with ASLEF. The Scottish Tories wanted Scottish Government intervention: ‘Instead of TAKING CONTROL of this dire situation, Nicola...

Within an otherwise devastating exposure of the crisis in NHS England, BBC News at 10pm last night, presented the above figures implying that NHS England remains better than the others in the UK. stewartb in a comment last night demolishes this presentation: BBC News at 22.25 on BBC 1 has just had Hugh Pym, its health editor, tell a UK audience that both NHS England and NHS Scotland had a similar,...

A DIRECT ferry link between Scotland and mainland Europe is set reopen early next year.

From Public Health Scotland: 19,977 people started psychological therapies treatment in NHS Boards and NHS 24 in the quarter ending March 2022. This is an increase of 10.5% (1,905) from the previous quarter, and an increase of 9.2% (1,684) from the same quarter the previous year. More than four out of five (83.1%) people started their treatment within 18 weeks of referral, compared to 84.8% of...

In the Guardian today: A shortage of beds for severely unwell eating-disorder patients has forced the NHS to send more than 100 women from England to hospitals in Scotland for treatment since 2017. The cost of relocating patients, which included under-18s, was more than £10m, with one patient staying more than a year in hospital, costing close to £250,000....

I HAVE read all the scaremongering resulting from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report... what a load of twaddle.

opened up its doors, offering homes and hope to Ukranian refugees. Just before Reporting Scotland make no reference to it, BBC UK has an extensive piece on Scotland’s welcome for refugees. The website finds no place for the story either: BBC Scotland prefer this kind of story: Ukrainian families in Livingston felt threatened over relocation...