Tag: wales
Ofcom surveys explain a lot about UK four nations
By Russell Bruce
The differences between the levels of interest about news concerning each of the four nations is...
Where The Sun does not shine
Chris Masson writing for the Scottish Sun produced a weird article on the cost of a handfull (eleven) civil servants working on...
Power Scotland: Powering GB
By Russell Bruce
At 6.00 pm on Saturday 1st January Scotland generated 98.7% of its electricity requirement and was...
World beating
Throughout this pandemic the UK Tory government has used ‘world beating’ as one of its most dragged out mantras, now worn thin by repetition. Everything it has done has been world beating. We’ll today, that is proved appropriate as daily cases of Covid 19 have for the first time topped 100,000 – 106,122 cases to be exact (95,795 of them in England), exclipsing the previous record of 93,045 just a few days ago on 17 December.
It’s Scotland’s gas and a tale of two economic models
By Russell Bruce
Or it should be, because it is too wee, too poor, too stupid Scotland, subsidised by...
Dependence on fossil fuel, 4 nation analysis
By Russell Bruce
Recently published data shows Scotland produced enough renewable electricity to meet 95.9% of our own consumption...
Covid: a 4 nation comparison
By Russell Bruce
With Tory politicians determined to undermine Nicola Sturgeon and her health team on Scotland's response to...
Brexit: an Airbus exit could be a threat to Scottish jobs
Exclusive report by Russell Bruce
The Airbus wing assembly plant in Wales has been given extensive coverage in the media but the possible affect on...
The curious case of Newsnight and Steve Messham
By a Newsnet reporter So, Lord McAlpine did not abuse young male residents at the Bryn Estyn children’s home in North Wales; that...
Wales 2 – Scotland 1, and a blessing in disguise
By a Newsnet reporter “I don’t think you can point the finger at Levein” said former Aberdeen legend Willie Miller during the post...