Is debunking the lies and revealing the good news about Scotland a ‘luxury item?’
Were it not for their editorial position against Scottish independence, I’d be tempted to give the Guardian a tenner every month but, despite supporting Irish re-unification and every other departure from the Empire, they ignore my requests to re-consider and so I cannot. Are we at TuS a ‘luxury item?’ 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 Productivity in the Crowdfunder era, almost doubled and readership up 20% but: At Talking-up Scotland, we’re producing more and better, I’d say. Our repeated and deepening investigations into the siting of the Queen Elisabeth … Continue reading Is debunking the lies and revealing the good news about Scotland a ‘luxury item?’
Approach with caution – Mark Smith’s ‘new’ made-up crime stats
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 I haven’t bothered with the The Herald’s Mark Smith for years now. In 2022, I wrote ‘Herald’s Mark Smith does a Ross Kemp and gets out of Holyrood before a few elderly feminists ‘kick off’ and thrust their merkins at him,’ but have not looked for fear of upsetting myself. It’s at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2022/12/26/heralds-mark-smith-does-a-ross-kemp-and-gets-out-of-holyrood-before-a-few-elderly-feminists-kick-off-and-thrust-their-merkins-at-him/ Approach with caution. Today, we have another of his biographical proud diversions in an attempt to seem clever: It is a constant disappointment to my parents that, despite the fact I … Continue reading Approach with caution – Mark Smith’s ‘new’ made-up crime stats
The truth of how Labour is responsible for all of the QEUH’s troubles – short video
Detail – https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/30/grotesquely-misguided-how-in-2000-a-glasgow-doctor-described-the-bizarre-decision-to-build-the-new-glasgow-hospital-next-to-multiple-stinking-sewage-ponds-in-a-clear-and-shaming-indictment-o/ Continue reading The truth of how Labour is responsible for all of the QEUH’s troubles – short video
Off the Table — at Your Peril
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 By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61575625542197 This week, our new ‘listening’ Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, took both Scottish independence and Irish reunification “off the table”. Why? I can only assume that a border poll in Northern Ireland, granted under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, would make Westminster’s refusal to allow Scotland another referendum increasingly difficult to defend — both domestically and internationally. But there is something else about this that should alarm everyone living in the United Kingdom. A Prime Minister hiding behind … Continue reading Off the Table — at Your Peril
‘Grotesquely misguided!’ How in 2000, a Glasgow doctor described the ‘bizarre’ decision to build the new Glasgow hospital next to multiple stinking sewage ponds in a clear and shaming indictment of Labour and the Herald since then
An aerated rotivated sludge pond like the 12, only 200 metres from the QEUH 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 at least 29 raw sewage ponds upwind and horribly close to a giant hospital with thousands of vulnerable patients. How the wind blows the sewage aerosols TO the wards. Thanks to stewartb for finding these media reports including in particular the one from the Herald at the top of this, questioning the choice of site years before work began, approved by the Labour Glasgow City Council in 2004: It’s … Continue reading ‘Grotesquely misguided!’ How in 2000, a Glasgow doctor described the ‘bizarre’ decision to build the new Glasgow hospital next to multiple stinking sewage ponds in a clear and shaming indictment of Labour and the Herald since then
Hospital Infection Inquiry – How BBC Scotland hid expert testimony calling the location next to a sewage works ‘an unacceptable and continuing risk’ but the Daily Mail properly informed the public
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 I was shocked to go back and read these reports from the inquiry into bacterial infections in the Queen Elisabeth University Hospital. In the Daily Mail: A water safety expert said he was ‘shocked’ to learn Scotland’s super-hospital has been built near a sewage plant. An inquiry into the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow heard that a microbiologist brought in following a spate of infections said its location next to wastewater treatment works was a risk to vulnerable patients. Dr Tom Makin runs the Makin … Continue reading Hospital Infection Inquiry – How BBC Scotland hid expert testimony calling the location next to a sewage works ‘an unacceptable and continuing risk’ but the Daily Mail properly informed the public
BBC Scotland ‘Disclosure’ team that did ‘Welcome to Glasgow’ have all called in sick after request to go down and help BBC Tees do a ‘Welcome to Cleveland’ as locals there hear Glasgow has far lower crime and far more police officers
Fresh from their disclosure of pandrop shortages in Scottish care homes for the elderly, following the wrong lorry full of underage calves to France and their recent, courageous if mostly armchair, investigation into tiktok videos of trouble in Glasgow, the BBC Scotland team are reported to have taken fright at the notion of actually going down to the really mean streets on Cleveland (Middlesbrough). Dismayed, BBC Tees, below, are pushing the story off their website with vague headlines. 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 How mean are the streets in … Continue reading BBC Scotland ‘Disclosure’ team that did ‘Welcome to Glasgow’ have all called in sick after request to go down and help BBC Tees do a ‘Welcome to Cleveland’ as locals there hear Glasgow has far lower crime and far more police officers
Scottish Government initiatives push Scotland well ahead of the rest of the UK in preserving nature
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 the at times nakedly anti-SNP Ferret yesterday: Only a tiny percentage of Scotland’s most fragile natural environments are being monitored by the national agency tasked with protecting them, The Ferret can reveal, with the number of inspections on the decline. Just 54 protected sites, which include national parks, mountains, wetlands, forests, ancient woods and peatlands, were monitored in 2025 by NatureScot, according to details released under freedom of information legislation. The figure makes up less than three per cent of protected sites, which … Continue reading Scottish Government initiatives push Scotland well ahead of the rest of the UK in preserving nature
Scotland has 21% more to spend on each school pupil but 24% less to spend on each undergraduate than England? Harvard Researchers would say ‘Good, good!’
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 the Higher Education Policy Institute yesterday and echoed in reports from Universities Scotland and the NUS: How Scotland has 21% more to spend on each school pupil but 24% less to spend on each undergraduate than England. This is all much more important than it might initially sound. Policymaking in Scotland is shaped by the size of its relatively small polity, meaning the political class is tighter and universities have more direct engagement with their political overlords, at least compared to England. This … Continue reading Scotland has 21% more to spend on each school pupil but 24% less to spend on each undergraduate than England? Harvard Researchers would say ‘Good, good!’
UK may follow US lowering nuclear safety standards to increase worker risk of cancer by 20%
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 NPR, two days ago: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to change a foundational rule designed to minimize radiation exposure. The update is part of President Trump’s expansive changes to nuclear oversight, as his administration seeks to revive nuclear energy to power data centers for artificial intelligence. Under a new proposed rule, the agency is eliminating a 50-year-old standard known as “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA), which requires the nuclear industry to drive radiation exposure for workers and the public below the stated limits where … Continue reading UK may follow US lowering nuclear safety standards to increase worker risk of cancer by 20%
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