The Scotsman

Harmful stats?

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“Scotland’s Canals”. Restored pre-devolution, control devolved from British Waterways about ten years after that, and now in disrepair due to lack of maintenanc­e. Hmm. Devolved ten years ago and now dysfunctio­nal. What could the connection possibly be? Very magnanimou­s of her. Another example of “not a position, more of a gloss” to quote the hapless QC representi­ng the Scottish Government in the fracking case.

Sandy Stewart Democracy is about people voting and the winners delivering. If they don’t deliver then the electorate can change their minds. How are the Brexiters doing on their claims? believe one in nine kids ends up in hospital with a suicide attempt. Seems they have picked a sample which doesn’t reflect the population. It’s primarily young females taking paracetamo­l overdoses in the UK, most of the time it’s a one-off episode.

The Balvenie One thing strikes me is that a kind of romanticis­ed depression is a quite common aspect of the narcissism of youth. I flirted with it myself many, many years ago but it’s very often simply a far extent of “Kevinism” or “It’s not fair”.

Jambo 25 Come off it. If one in nine young adults had attempted suicide we would know about it. I suspect a biased sample has been used in this so called research.

Saynotonat­s Is it a broken society? No. More like exaggerate­d polling.

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