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Scotland’s better building standards mean no ‘towers of terror’ here much as the Sunday Mail might wish for them

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA The Sunday Mail‘s front page is a classic of melodramatic misrepresentation of the facts, based with little apparent sense of irony, upon a 1968 explosion in London and pointing to risk in large panel systems. What are these LPS concrete panels the Sunday Mail would have us panic over? From Grok AI (Powerfully helpful as long as you ask the right questions and can … Continue reading Scotland’s better building standards mean no ‘towers of terror’ here much as the Sunday Mail might wish for them

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Drug deaths falling sharply for 5 years and treatment beating 90% target for 4 years suggests that the ‘sorry state’ is of journalism in the Sunday Post

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA The Sunday Post has the above in direct contradiction of the facts of drug addiction in Scotland in recent years, ignoring what is ‘the’ news, the trends. First, drug deaths are falling in Scotland while surging elsewhere in the UK Even ignoring the above doubts, drug deaths are surging in England & Wales as they plummet in Scotland England and Wales: Scotland: Drug … Continue reading Drug deaths falling sharply for 5 years and treatment beating 90% target for 4 years suggests that the ‘sorry state’ is of journalism in the Sunday Post

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UK Government only able to save private companies in England

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By Liz S Anas Sarwar declared this year that the UK government were unable to help Grangemouth Refinery as it was a “private company” . Now we hear that the “private company” that is Jaguar Land Rover is to be given “UK government assistance” as now it is being reported that: The UK ” Government to guarantee £1.5bn JLR loan after cyber shutdown”………..”in a bid to support its suppliers as a cyber-attack continues to … Continue reading UK Government only able to save private companies in England

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BMA UK reports NHS England ‘severely broken’

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By stewartb When a public service in the UK is devolved and the same service has over a decade or more declined into crisis in England where it is the responsibility of the all powerful Westminster government – a crisis widely attributed to under-funding/under-investment in the face of rising demand – how on earth can dependent devolved governments with very limited fiscal levers in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh do … Continue reading BMA UK reports NHS England ‘severely broken’

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‘Dr Death’ Iain Kennedy – the very long read

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA By Liz S The Sunday Herald front page….. “In a bleakly pessimistic interview , Chair of the British Medical Association Scotland Dr Iain Kennedy reveals all on the disturbing crisis currently engulfing our health system”. “pessimistic” is a constant with Sr Iain Kennedy on the Scottish NHS service…..in fact has he ever said anything positive about our Scottish NHS and our Scottish government ? “our health system”….is that only “ours” (Scotland’s) or is there … Continue reading ‘Dr Death’ Iain Kennedy – the very long read

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Does Douglas Alexander want to go back to the bad old days of Labour with far more crime, old folk too scared to walk home in the dark, infected blood supplies, fewer affordable homes, the toleration of sex worker rapes, increasing drug deaths, more derelict sites, more homelessness, more sepsis deaths and not even enough trees to feel good about walking among or does he mainly want to get back to fiddling his expenses?

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald yesterday had: Scotland has gone ‘backwards’ under SNP rule, Alexander to claim Dog knows what he’s going to say, few care, I suppose, but he won’t be mentioning these: or this: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/25/as-bbc-uk-worries-about-it-in-england-anti-social-behaviour-in-scotland-plummets-to-half-what-it-was-under-scottish-labour-in-2007/ I think that will do. Continue reading Does Douglas Alexander want to go back to the bad old days of Labour with far more crime, old folk too scared to walk home in the dark, infected blood supplies, fewer affordable homes, the toleration of sex worker rapes, increasing drug deaths, more derelict sites, more homelessness, more sepsis deaths and not even enough trees to feel good about walking among or does he mainly want to get back to fiddling his expenses?

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‘Total panic’: the effect of no-fault evictions on renters in England has not applied in Scotland since the SNP Government abolished them in 2016 and is not the only way in which life is better here

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian yesterday, the above and: When Sarah Ladyman was made redundant from her job as a horticulturist earlier this year, her one-bedroom flat was her sanctuary. Then, her landlord attempted to raise her monthly rent from £775 to £900. She took her case to a rent tribunal – only to be served with a no-fault eviction notice. No-fault eviction notices – … Continue reading ‘Total panic’: the effect of no-fault evictions on renters in England has not applied in Scotland since the SNP Government abolished them in 2016 and is not the only way in which life is better here

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That abortion is already effectively decriminalised is part of a better, not yet good enough I know, wider situation for women in Scotland.

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald today, this claim: Grok disagrees, sort of: There has not been an abortion conviction in Scotland since the Abortion Act 1967 came into force on April 27, 1968. Under the Act, which applies to Scotland, abortions are legal up to 24 weeks (or later in cases of severe fetal abnormality or risk to the woman’s life) when approved by two … Continue reading That abortion is already effectively decriminalised is part of a better, not yet good enough I know, wider situation for women in Scotland.

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If ‘NHS Scotland is dying before our eyes’ then NHS England must be long dead

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA As BMA Scotland branch secretary, Iain Findlay recycles his claims on the Herald front page today, some of the evidence they do not survive a collision with: 12 hour A&E waits TWICE as long in England and nearly THREE TIMES as long in Wales Performance statistics for A&E waits, NHS England, November and December 2024: Source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2024-25/ Over 12 hour delays = 54,207 patients … Continue reading If ‘NHS Scotland is dying before our eyes’ then NHS England must be long dead

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The BMA UK – a more serious, objective trade union than its lead in Scotland, Dr Kennedy?

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With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In an NHS demonstrably superior, on almost every count, than that in which the BMA UK has to operate, Dr Iain Findlay of the Scottish branch peddles the same lies. I’ll come back specifically at these later but first on the strange phenomenon of a union whose HQ praises the Scottish Government but whose Scottish branch head regularly lies about the situation here. … Continue reading The BMA UK – a more serious, objective trade union than its lead in Scotland, Dr Kennedy?