Talking-up Scotland yesterday attracted more than eight thousand discrete visitors and more than ten thousand views yet…..

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Yesterday, in one day alone, Talking-up Scotland performed like this: The 6 posts, like those on almost every other day in the year took hours to research and write. I’m not complaining about the work. It’s good for me at 74 but I cannot help seeing this below as a sobering assessment of how the value of it is really perceived by almost everyone of those thousands. Tell me why I’m wrong? Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Continue reading Talking-up Scotland yesterday attracted more than eight thousand discrete visitors and more than ten thousand views yet…..

NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board may be in debt but is performing well above 90% and above the national average on four important targets but local Tory MSP attempts to shame local staff

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. The ‘Scottish’ Daily Express, today, has: SNP accused of ‘gross mismanagement’ as NHS Ayrshire placed in special measures and down the page, this major inaccuracy: Mr Whittle [Tory list MSP] said: “The escalation of NHS Ayrshire and Arran is deeply alarming, and the buck stops with the SNP. Their gross mismanagement of the health service over the last two decades means health boards have been pushed beyond breaking point. “Waiting lists are through the roof and A&E waiting times at hospitals such as Ayr and Crosshouse have skyrocketed on the SNP’s … Continue reading NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board may be in debt but is performing well above 90% and above the national average on four important targets but local Tory MSP attempts to shame local staff

Scottish Government report on ‘Five years of Scottish Child Payment’ totally ignored by ‘our’ media

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Scottish Child Payment has supported more than 241,000 parents and carers since its launch five years ago, helping put over £1.3 billion into the pockets of low-income families. An increase to the payment for children under one will be introduced during 2027/28, estimated to benefit around 12,000 children and could be worth an extra £500 a year for each eligible child. The payment, which is only available in Scotland, provides families with £27.15 a week, rising to £28.20 from April 2026, for every eligible child under 16.  Latest figures show more than 322,000 children are … Continue reading Scottish Government report on ‘Five years of Scottish Child Payment’ totally ignored by ‘our’ media

Not good enough, I know, but according to Labour’s then Dame Helena Kennedy “Scotland has proudly led the way in many areas concerning women’s rights and violence against women”

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. The horrific story of Gisele Pelicot dominates BBC News this morning, understandably, and the Talking-up Scotland comment below will trigger faux rage and deliberate misrepresentation in a few comments. However, to deal with a problem, which Scotland still has ‘in spades’, we have know how we are progressing, if at all. Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords, is no supporter of the SNP in Government, so what she said nearly two years ago is important. By stewartb In the light of the … Continue reading Not good enough, I know, but according to Labour’s then Dame Helena Kennedy “Scotland has proudly led the way in many areas concerning women’s rights and violence against women”

Wes Streeting and Ian Murray humiliated as Scotland’s roll-out of health data digitisation now seem likely to be smoother and quicker than that in England

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. England’s Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray, have delighted in the the alleged slower digitisation of health data in Scotland, even calling John Swinney, ‘analogue‘ in a very nerdy niche joke. However, in the Guardian yesterday: Health officials fear Palantir’s reputation will hinder the delivery of a “vital” £330m NHS contract, according to briefings seen by the Guardian, sparking fresh calls for the deal to be scrapped. In 2023, ministers selected Palantir, a US surveillance technology company that also works for the Israeli … Continue reading Wes Streeting and Ian Murray humiliated as Scotland’s roll-out of health data digitisation now seem likely to be smoother and quicker than that in England

Daily Record’s front page today exposed for what it is – short video

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Evidence here – https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/daily-records-confuses-suspects-with-criminals-to-scare-you-and-ignores-scotlands-far-lower-murder-rate-and-violence-against-women-to-scare-you/ Important – my full range of fleeces now exposed, still lip-scarred and not frothing (!) and perhaps my least professional presentation? With the guys at South Park and big Karl, if he knew of them, I eschew production values, as bourgeois distractions from brutal reality….I do….really….. 😉 Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Continue reading Daily Record’s front page today exposed for what it is – short video

Should Pam Duncan-Glancy not have tried to support her long time friend in some way?

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Alasdair Macdonald You are correct as always to point out and publicize the political anti-independence bias displayed by BBC Scotland and the unionist media. I should like to make a point exemplified by the issues in the articles you have used here. It concerns the identification of politicians and other higher profile figures who are associated in some way with individuals who have been accused of a crime even though the well known people are innocent of any crime. It is ‘guilt by association’. A fairly recent example was when a … Continue reading Should Pam Duncan-Glancy not have tried to support her long time friend in some way?

Labour MSP and friend of convicted paedophile disappears completely from BBC News in just two days unlike Nicola and Peter back in 2023

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Only the day before yesterday and Labour MSP Pam Duncan Glancy had doubled down on a defence of her friendship with a convicted paedophile so, was understandably the top story on the BBC Scotland website. Surely, this one would run and run, she was defending her contact with a paedophile, as we have seen with the now ten year-old ‘infected hospital deaths’ story featuring Anas Sarwar as heroic lead or the Sturgeon/Murrell ‘fraud’ case in 2023. Today, in record time, she’s gone, gone completely! Let’s compare this with BBC Scotland’s coverage … Continue reading Labour MSP and friend of convicted paedophile disappears completely from BBC News in just two days unlike Nicola and Peter back in 2023

Daily Record confuses ‘suspects’ with ‘criminals’ to scare you and ignores Scotland’s far lower murder rate and violence against women..to scare you

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Still fighting hard for Scottish Labour, the Record has another of it’s utterly dishonest and immoral front pages today, with in the opening lines: ‘Killers and rapists are among thousands of fugitives on cops’ wanted list.’ These are presumably suspects rather than criminals, as yet. Murder makes up only 0.015% and sexual violence makes up only 5% of all crime in Scotland so we’re not, as they hope you might think, talking about thousands of either. Here is the truth about murder in Scotland: Here is the truth about sex crimes: … Continue reading Daily Record confuses ‘suspects’ with ‘criminals’ to scare you and ignores Scotland’s far lower murder rate and violence against women..to scare you

Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. We know that the hundred’s of County Lines drug gangs terrorising small town Scotland, increasing violent crime, prostitution, child abuse, and keeping drug deaths high are based entirely in large English cities such as London, Liverpool and Birmingham. They send child drug mules and violent enforcers into Scotland as far as Shetland. The recent reports, in newspapers and online, of criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops, are careful, as with most County Lines reports, to avoid suggesting that this might be similar. However, unscripted comments in broadcasts by … Continue reading Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts