The BBC in Scotland platform ‘experts’ who all have a rabid #SNPBAD angle in their opinions
By Liz S Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 The BBC in Scotland platform those (same) ‘experts’ who are to be assumed to be neutral , but as experts , they all somehow always seem to have a rabid #SNPBAD angle in their opinions . So then with many of these guests being presented as politically ‘neutral’ you then find that after you do just a wee bit of research, or you already know who they are, it is clearly obvious and so then firmly established that they have an affiliation with some opposition political party to … Continue reading The BBC in Scotland platform ‘experts’ who all have a rabid #SNPBAD angle in their opinions
The true scandal of infection deaths at Glasgow hospital revealed
Sources at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=sewage Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Continue reading The true scandal of infection deaths at Glasgow hospital revealed
Always ‘concerned’ former prof guesses first time that ‘concerned former head’ is just failed Lib Dem candidate Carol Ford and claims prize from Scotsman
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 It was a dead cert! When the media operating in Scotland headline concerns about school attainment, they have a very small set of ‘experts’ to call on, all summarily dismissed here umpteen times before. Today, it’s Carol Ford again. Understandably, this does not merit another costly investigation by TuS. Here’s our extended report from last December: Professor John Robertson OBA, former schoolteacher, education lecturer, head of department, Associate Dean (Quality Assurance), Research Professor, research methods tutor, Masters and PhD supervisor, multiple peer-reviewed international research author, Faculty … Continue reading Always ‘concerned’ former prof guesses first time that ‘concerned former head’ is just failed Lib Dem candidate Carol Ford and claims prize from Scotsman
Fact – there are no current investigations in Scotland involving offences against children like the investigations into abuse being perpetrated by “grooming gangs” in England
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 The National review of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation and child criminal exploitation Last updated: 3 September 2026 has not found evidence of any large-scale grooming gang activity comparable to that found across the ‘north’ of England in places like Rotherham and Rochdale, where more than a thousand young girls were abused and hundreds of offenders were prosecuted and jailed. What it has found is that it does not have the data to confirm that such activity does not take place in Scotland. Opposition politicians … Continue reading Fact – there are no current investigations in Scotland involving offences against children like the investigations into abuse being perpetrated by “grooming gangs” in England
Corrosion costs French nuclear energy 38bn in lost revenue in 2025 and rust-related outages to run into 2027 – how do Scottish Labour react?
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Thanks once more to Frances McKie for alerting us to this from Bloomberg UK today. The key points are: EDF extended a planned maintenance outage at one of its 57 nuclear reactors after signs of corrosion were found. The reactor is Gravelines 5 at the Gravelines plant in northern France (near Dunkirk). The outage will now run until January 25 (of the following year), seven weeks longer than originally planned. This cuts French nuclear output during a key part of the winter heating season. … Continue reading Corrosion costs French nuclear energy 38bn in lost revenue in 2025 and rust-related outages to run into 2027 – how do Scottish Labour react?
California researchers find auto-immune disorders FOUR times as high near a place like Dounreay
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Debrief two days ago: A new study published in Risk Analysis found that residents living within five miles of the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory reported autoimmune disorders at more than four times the rate of those living 11 to 15 miles away. Located in the Simi Hills northwest of Los Angeles, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory hosted rocket engine testing from 1949 to 2006 and nuclear reactor operations from 1953 to 1980. In 1959, a partial meltdown occurred at the site, which later became associated with radioactive and chemical contamination in … Continue reading California researchers find auto-immune disorders FOUR times as high near a place like Dounreay
Child trade crisis – one more reason for Scotland to take control of our border
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Like Canada sharing a border with the USA’s massive crime rates, deregulated health and economic system, Scotland has multiple reasons to seek control over its border with England. Extreme violence, new cheap and more powerful drugs, managed by County Lines gangs, flow up the motorways and the rail lines from major English cities and into the low crime areas of Scotland, into at least 60 villages and smaller towns, from Wick to Dumfries. Measles and TB spread from low vaccination areas in the South … Continue reading Child trade crisis – one more reason for Scotland to take control of our border
Do you ever get fed up with us reporting how after 19 years without LabCons just about every public service in Scotland has been protected by the SNP? Now it’s our well-regulated RAAC ‘which can easily last 50 years, and should be able to carry on for several decades after that’
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 BBC Reporting Scotland Down today are back in Aberdeen, meeting folk who should really be suing the engineers who did the report upon which a mortgage lender lent them money to buy their RAAC council house, at a knock-down price thanks to the Tories and Labour back in the 20th C., before the SNP put an end to the taxpayer rip-off scheme in 2016. They interview a young man who has clearly played poker before and likes it there, he says. ‘Make me an … Continue reading Do you ever get fed up with us reporting how after 19 years without LabCons just about every public service in Scotland has been protected by the SNP? Now it’s our well-regulated RAAC ‘which can easily last 50 years, and should be able to carry on for several decades after that’
Millions of litres of raw sewage in 50 toxic waste ponds and tanks, some huge, some stirred, most open to the air and all within a few hundred metres of a giant hospital for the seriously sick – Welcome to Glasgow under Labour
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 The view above of five large open-topped raw sewage tanks, from the viewpoint in the red arrow below. To the left, the viewer sees a large building with the moss green flat roof – labs, testing. A wee wall attempts to protect it from sewage bioaerosols containing more bacteria and fungi which travel around 100m, than anyone could list here. To the left again, at the bottom of the image, the main hospital entrance and in the semi-circular, the hospital for children where cancer … Continue reading Millions of litres of raw sewage in 50 toxic waste ponds and tanks, some huge, some stirred, most open to the air and all within a few hundred metres of a giant hospital for the seriously sick – Welcome to Glasgow under Labour
Scotland’s health board restructuring is not unusual and wee local groups cannot be trusted with complex medical issues
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Lesley Riddoch in the National yesterday, with the above and: Leaving aside her invitation to ‘islanders’ to make me ‘walk the ferry gang plank’ after I questioned their awareness of just how much the SNP Government has done for them, I still trust Lesley Riddoch as an honest and constructive, not to mention, very articulate, critical friend of the SNP. I have my own concerns on the SNP leadership, especially on foreign affairs, but if you work to destroy them you will regret it … Continue reading Scotland’s health board restructuring is not unusual and wee local groups cannot be trusted with complex medical issues
