Why the London lads at the IFS are regurgitating the unreliable 2022 Pisa results and trying to forget the 2025 ‘landmark year’ in an election year
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Many thanks to cuckooshoe for reminding us of the above and seeing through what the London-based IFS is up to in this election period. Source: https://www.sqainternational.org.uk/sqa/114509.html The earlier TuS posts on this topic: Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Continue reading Why the London lads at the IFS are regurgitating the unreliable 2022 Pisa results and trying to forget the 2025 ‘landmark year’ in an election year
BBC Wales reveals Labour’s attack on devolution while BBC Scotland hides it from you to protect their Anas
BBC Wales and BBC Scotland at 4pm Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON By Liz S For any “normal rational being” then “Glen Sannox ferry needs £3.2m repairs after one year in service” , as an article, would not be their top story today on the BBC Scotland page , as there is a much bigger story that should overshadow it in significance. A story that is far more significant for the whole of Scotland and so that far bigger story should have remained as the … Continue reading BBC Wales reveals Labour’s attack on devolution while BBC Scotland hides it from you to protect their Anas
The UK Internal Market Act means that Scotland cannot prevent the sale of dangerous vapes in shops
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Ferret reveals today: A Ferret investigation has found there was no registration to sell vapes at the Union Street premises in Glasgow where a major fire started – and we can reveal the name of the company behind the shop. https://www.theferret.scot/revealed-company-behind-vape-shop-fire-had-not-paying-business-rates-or-registered-to-sell-vapes/ Can Scotland do anything about these clearly dangerous sales from high street shops in areas frequented by the vulnerable, the very young and the elderly? No. Why? The United Kingdom Internal Market 2020 legislation was designed … Continue reading The UK Internal Market Act means that Scotland cannot prevent the sale of dangerous vapes in shops
As Scottish Cons campaign on drug deaths the FIVE years of success in turning them around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Annie Wells and Russell Findlay Who?, outside a pharmacy in Possilpark to campaign for the next election on Scotland’s drug deaths, luckily for them, still the highest in Europe. Did no one tell them that negative campaigning doesn’t work that well? Here are the facts: The drug deaths trend in Scotland has been downward for these last five years, from 1 339 in 2020 to 1 017. A 24.2% fall, by a quarter in only 5 years after … Continue reading As Scottish Cons campaign on drug deaths the FIVE years of success in turning them around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that
‘Liar, liar, pants on fire’ – Scottish Labour try to twist a fast professional and effective response by firefighters into failure
Image – Scottish Fire Service Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON There have been no reports suggesting that the fire service response to the Glasgow city centre fire was slow or in anyway inadequate but, in the Scotsman today: Is there any topic, as they face a near extinction even in May, that Scottish Labour will not attempt to exploit? Here’s what you need to know: In the days before the growth of the SNP and the independence movement, corporate media hacks would have … Continue reading ‘Liar, liar, pants on fire’ – Scottish Labour try to twist a fast professional and effective response by firefighters into failure
As ambulance-chasing lawyers circle, how the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at one third lower than the UK average, saving thousands, despite the delay in devolving responsibility and PM Johnson’s callous inertia – saving thousands of lives
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The unconvincingly ‘Scottish’ edition of the Daily Express has a story today about lawyers represented the bereaved trying to get some compensation for them, by misrepresenting the truth of how the Scottish Government performed, once it had control of the pandemic strategy. You can either watch a two minute video account or read the longer version with evidence sources below, or do both. Here’s the video: Here’s the fuller account: Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or … Continue reading As ambulance-chasing lawyers circle, how the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at one third lower than the UK average, saving thousands, despite the delay in devolving responsibility and PM Johnson’s callous inertia – saving thousands of lives
One-year moderate to significant in service repairs are common in new ships as we see with the Type 45 destroyers, the two aircraft carriers and the Astute class subs
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON BBC Scotland headlining another story that might, they hope, damage SNP prospects in May. Is that a big, shock, story in the public interest, or not? This is an AI product but checked to make sure the sources are reliable ones. How common is it that larger ships would require moderate repairs after the first year in service? Give examples for the UK since 2000? For larger commercial ships (such as bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, or cargo … Continue reading One-year moderate to significant in service repairs are common in new ships as we see with the Type 45 destroyers, the two aircraft carriers and the Astute class subs
As the Queen speaks again on the topic, 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”
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Short video on – England’s Pisa scores are based only on a tiny selective sample of higher achieving schools making Paul O’Kane’s sad desperate attempt to claim they are better than Scotland just another under-educated failure from Scottish Labour
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Largs and Fairlie SNP Presentation 23 March 2026 – Notes for those using personal mobile phones and tablets to see
I hope this is not vanity but, just in case there’s a big crowd and you can’t see my PowerPoint presentation at the back, it’s all (apart from my talking which you will hear) here for you to scroll over. Largs and Fairlie SNP 23 March 2026 Welcome words and outline Who shapes the story? Background Where are we now – polls and biases in polls Q and A Biased media in 2014 and in 2026 – has anything changed 2014 Q and A 2026 Substantial research evidence linking heavy consumption of news media—particularly negative or distressing content—to increased symptoms … Continue reading Largs and Fairlie SNP Presentation 23 March 2026 – Notes for those using personal mobile phones and tablets to see
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