Tag: bbc scotland

By The Media Monitor How many times have you heard reporters claim that Scotland has the highest Covid care...

By The Media Monitor It's impossible to identify the most shocking and incendiary revelation from Dominic Cummings' testimony in...

Commentary by Derek Bateman She was called Diana Gould and came from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, a middle aged, middle class lady from the shires. She...

Commentary by Derek Bateman I’ve just been interviewed by BBC Scotland for their new digital channel. ‘So, Derek. What do you think of our plans for...

Commentary by Derek Bateman The retirement of Colin Blane after a lifetime in BBC radio journalism that took him from Beijing to Johannesburg to Brussels...

Derek Bateman makes a personal case against the plan for anti-BBC Scotland billboards, and argues for a rational critique of the BBC's coverage of the...

Commentary by Derek Bateman Because, of course, I always believe everything I read in the old media, bless ‘em, I take it the chances of...

Is there less extreme debt in Scotland? Researcher John Robertson investigates  ‘More than 1.5 million families are in extreme debt, according to a TUC/Unison report’...

John Robertson takes a look at hate crime reporting north and south of the Border ‘Police probe neo-Nazi hate crime in Edinburgh after European Referendum’...

Commentary by Bernard Thompson I have to confess that I didn't watch the BBC debate on Scotland's future on Monday. Somehow, the chance to be enlightened...