Another desperate attempt to drag us into the surging violence and hatred of the UK

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 Headlining for BBC Scotland today above, and: A 25-year-old Scottish man has been jailed for racially-motivated “violent disorder” linked to rioting in Belfast during the summer of 2024. Reece Dunnett, from Dunfermline in Fife, pleaded guilty to rioting and criminal damage offences at Laganside Crown Court on Friday. He received a 27-month sentence – half of which to be spent in prison and half on licence after his release. Dunnett committed the offences after trouble arose in the Sandy Row and Donegall Road areas … Continue reading Another desperate attempt to drag us into the surging violence and hatred of the UK

Fires fall dramatically to lowest in 10 years and staffing climbs but Scottish Labour try to hide the truth from you

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 Brian Leishman, Scottish Labour, above lies through his teeth above the situation with regard to fires and the fire service in Scotland in 2026. Above, the bigger picture for fire services in the UK, but the Scotsman today is platforming a trade union they used to habitually attack before they became useful for the Union: From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: March 2026, the above and : The number of deliberate building fires has fallen over the last year while the number … Continue reading Fires fall dramatically to lowest in 10 years and staffing climbs but Scottish Labour try to hide the truth from you

Will George Foulkes mentor Anas in the Lords?

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 In August 2021, Sarwar seemed more concerned then about ‘jobs for the boys.’ Now he joins this lot: In July 2023, we saw the kind of work Labour Lords like Anas Sarwar and the above sign up for: Commenting on the remarks by Baroness Neville-Rolfe in the House of Lords today – in response to George Foulkes – that the UK government is considering sanctioning the Scottish Government for work in relation to independence and reserved areas, SNP cabinet spokesperson, Kirsty Blackman MP said: … Continue reading Will George Foulkes mentor Anas in the Lords?

Murder is so rare in Scotland our media have to scrape up a story of a Nigerian and a Ugandan in London who met in Aberdeen years before

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 In the National yesterday: and: What on earth is the point in this? Does Aberdeen do a Masters in Murder now? Talk about scraping a barrel. How do we know they met in Aberdeen? AI can find not a trace of them in Abderdeen. Lewisham and Aberdeen have similar populations, 300 000 and 227 000 but very different homicide rates, 11 in Lewishasm last year compared to only 4 in Aberdeen, 1.7 and 3.7 per 100 000 respectively. Sources: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-year-ending-june-2026/ https://aoav.org.uk/2026/londons-2025-murders-examined-key-figures-in-the-uk-capitals-homicides/ Back to the … Continue reading Murder is so rare in Scotland our media have to scrape up a story of a Nigerian and a Ugandan in London who met in Aberdeen years before

Welcome to Cleveland – 50% more crime per 1 000 population than Glasgow and twice the violence

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 BBC UK today: Cleveland Police’s Chief Constable has said she is proud of her “brave” force but that it was being “let down” by the way it was funded, following a fatal crash which killed seven people including two police officers. In her first sit-down interview since the A66 crash, speaking exclusively to the BBC, Victoria Fuller said the force needed to become part of a larger force with greater resources. She said her officers are dealing with some of the highest crime … Continue reading Welcome to Cleveland – 50% more crime per 1 000 population than Glasgow and twice the violence

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

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?