Maybe the Covid virus has peaked again in Scotland?…The figures have steadied…The hacks story will be that Scotland lags England in the vaccination race though…
The BBC SNPbaad intro show had a London BBC reporter comparing with Scotland…apples and oranges…
We comment about the SNP National Assembly stitch-up…We bitch about George Kerevan’s SNP leadership race article…there’s a Bella ‘Lefty No to Yes’ story that gets memories going…Iain Lawson takes on the ‘blogger bullies’…Craig Murray says that the Crown Office still won’t reveal the Murrell/Ruddick evidence that the Inquiry demands…and Kenny MacAskill says Indyref2 in 2021 is impossible…
There’s no Sturgeon V Salmond stooshie today.
Opinions by Stewart Lochhead, Norrie Stewart, Phil Attridge, Jimmy Hutton
The Andrew Marr show featured UK Health Minister Hancock and Scotland’s FM Sturgeon with Glenn Campbell opining…Then the Politics Scotland show anchored by Andrew Kerr which featured DFM John Swinney and had Glenn Campbell – again…Finally The Big Question presented by Nicky Campbell worried about social media…
We then review Iain MacWhirter’s piece in the Herald exposing corruption at the Crown Office (prosecution service) led by Lord Advocate James Wolfe which Iain links to the Salmond V Sturgeon scandal…which we then discuss in depth…
Also mentioned are;…Anas Sarwar, Rape Crisis Scotland, NHS health boards, Gordon Dangerfield and SKY’s James Mathews disappearing reports, Peter A Bell, the Real McKay seafood and the Red Hand Commando.
Correction and apology. Lord Advocate James Wolffe apologised on behalf of Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland. “Having previously defended the case, the Lord Advocate has now admitted that the Crown, under his predecessor Frank Mulholland QC, acted unlawfully during a substantial part of the proceedings. Documents recovered by the pursuers’ advisers show senior Crown Office lawyers speaking about the “need to nail the Duff & Phelps people” – referring to the pursuers’ firm at the time of their appointment as administrators. The court heard that no minutes appeared to exist of meetings chaired by Mr Mulholland to discuss strategy in the case.”
Opinions by Jimmy Hutton, Norrie Stewart, Phil Attridge, Stewart Lochhead
BBC Politics;…Lynsey Bews, Graham Stewart, 70% of infected not self isolating, £500 Gov support?, Welsh FM accuses, lockdown till summer?, extend travel ban, keep schools closed, UKGov in denial, ‘vaccination a distraction’, kids NOT immune…
Covid briefing review;…Covid case rate down to 7%, hospitals and ICU stable, daily deaths 71, FM stresses/details dangers in supermarkets…brushes off police care home deaths inquiry and building work at Bute House…
Main review;…Spectator Royal Commission delay, Colonel Ruth Davidson, Lizzie Hoose, Nissan bribe, Channel Tunnel refilled, Watergate at Holyrood, the Scotsman/Johnston Press, nukes illegal, Holyrood list voting, Greens, ISP, Galloway, Brexit…
Sturgeon scandal;…James Mathews SKY story vanishes, gagging orders, Lord Advocate and £60m loss, Craig Murray trial, Lady Dorian, Gordon Dangerfield, alphabet women, maybe I’m talking p**h…
Opinions by Phil Attridge, Norrie Stewart, Jimmy Hutton, Stewart Lochhead
Deputy FM John Swinney held the Covid press briefing supported by NCD Jason Leitch…The game was ‘let’s compare vaccinations with England” and make ScotGov look bad on the day the UK death rate reached another awful peak…
From the past came a poll about a prosecution of former PM Tony Blair…
Alex Salmond’s former Chief of Staff, Geoff Aberdein, has been barred from giving evidence of a conspiracy against his boss to the Holyrood inquiry…
Nicola Sturgeon is England’s favourite political leader…Who knew?…
Lesley Riddoch analyses the detail in the latest poll by Scot Goes Pop…
We all have a go at the threat to free speech from the woke division.
Opinions by Jimmy Hutton, Norrie Stewart, Stewart Lochhead, Phil Attridge
The FMQs review majors on the vaccine programme roll-out…
We discuss a new poll which shows 55% support for the May Holyrood election to be plebiscitary (viz. a referendum on independence)…
The news from Labour sees Monica Lennon officially as a leadership candidate… There’s also a Keir Starmer appointment of a ‘former’ Mossad agent to spy on the UK Labour Party…
The final main topic is the launch in the UK of two more foreign backed TV News stations (what’s new?)…
Also included are;…Devi Sridhar, Joanna Cherry + UK Supreme Court, George Osborne, Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil, Rupert Murdoch and Robin McAlpine out of Common Weal…
Opinions by Stewart Lochhead, Norrie Stewart, Phil Attridge, Jimmy Hutton
It was a brief Covid briefing and only 14 journalists turned up…Perhaps they were warned that Covid only questions were allowed…The figures have plateaued so the focus was on the vaccination roll-out and comparisons with England…
The Review
It’s an eclectic mix of topics as we cover;…
The social media responses to Robin McAlpine and Craig Murray…
The SNP re-launch of yet another plan to think about how to have a referendum…
Charlotte St Partners, the House of Lords and Norries support for an unelected second chamber…
Peter A Bell on a camel from George Kerevan…
Denise Findlay’s history of Nicola Sturgeon as FM…
Monica Lennon’s chance to lead Scottish Labour…
Exiled Scot Gavin Esler’s lost view of Scotland…
And Scottish fish lorries protesting in London.
Opinions by Phil Attridge, Norrie Stewart, Jimmy Hutton, Stewart Lochhead
The Marr, Ridge and Politics Scotland shows are all reviewed…Jack McConnel was Gary Roberson’s Unionist guest on the wee show ‘where you are’ so the fortunes of Labour in Scotland and Anas Sarwar in particular were roasted…
In Holyrood Magazine Mandy Rhodes roasts both First Minister Sturgeon and Permanent Secretary Evans and others over the Salmond V Sturgeon affair…’What About the Women?’…
The Sunday National headlines another call to Yessers to prepare for Indyref2…’Not Another One?’ How many calls to arms have we had and how many more before we revolt?…
The former head of the FBI James Comey dubbed Donald Trump as a menacing mob boss and suggested Trump would love an impeachment trial live on TV from Washington spread over 3 years…
Other topics included polls, fish business and ferries.
Opinions by Phil Attridge, Jimmy Hutton, Norrie Stewart, Stewart Lochhead
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman took the Covid press briefing…
She apologised for mistakes in her department and announced South American travel bans due to the Brazil new variant…
Also announced were testing for ‘care at home’ workers, a big expansion of mobile testing teams plus waste water testing at sewage works…
NCD Jason Leitch clarified the position on vaccination passports…
We discussed the Scottish Labour deposing of leader Richard Leonard at length and an article by MP Joanna Cherry about Europe was the final main topic…
Opinions by Phil Attridge, Jimmy Hutton, Stewart Lochhead, Norrie Stewart
Our review is a Salmond V Sturgeon psychodrama-free zone but the press asked questions about it at the Covid press briefing which featured Dr. Nicola Steedman and Dr. Alisdair Cook supporting the FM.
The figures revealed another peak in hospital capacity but otherwise levelling off.
Issues included the Brazil variant and a vaccination plan spat with the UKGov.
We discuss the seafood industry Brexit disaster.
A new poll has the SNP looking very strong for the Holyrood election 2021 and support for independence is holding at 57%.
Lesley Riddoch suggests the YES movement is a healthy demonstration of citizen democracy.
John Curtice says the new Farage party, dubbed ‘REFUK’ , will damage Unionist parties at the election.
Opinions by Stewart Lochhead, Phil Attridge, Jimmy Hutton, Norrie Stewart
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