Year: 2025

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Your time is almost up Starmer

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With only 3 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 Talking of Labour….this is a very long comment and it includes text from an article written by Peter Oborne……and it paints Labour in a very bad light….because of Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer….but let’s not forget all of the Labour MP’s who have supported both of them in public…..and have passed many of the bad bills that impact the “many” while leaving the … Continue reading Your time is almost up Starmer

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Why John Swinney is even more right to oppose Digital ID than is being discussed so far

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With only 3 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 There’s something missing from all the media coverage of Labour’s Digital ID proposal and it’s darker than any worries we might have about Scots ‘declaring ourselves British.‘ From the Canary factchecker two days ago: As Keir Starmer moves to impose ‘digital ID’ on the UK, anti-surveillance and anti-freeport activist and Canary writer David Powell has submitted a major Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request to the government demanding … Continue reading Why John Swinney is even more right to oppose Digital ID than is being discussed so far

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How Scotland’s schools are preventing the spread of County Lines gangs exploitation of children as young as 13

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With only 3 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 Express today has the above and: Children as young as 13 are running violent county lines drug gangs across Britain as school exclusions and vanishing “ghost pupils” fuel an explosion in exploitation, an expert has warned. Former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield said youngsters barely into their teens were heading drug networks, controlling supply lines of up to 80 miles, ordering … Continue reading How Scotland’s schools are preventing the spread of County Lines gangs exploitation of children as young as 13

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Not one of the 150 000 UK graduates with student loan debts of £100 000-plus is from Scotland

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With only 3 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 today: More than 150,000 UK graduates have student loan debts of £100,000-plus ‘Debt sentences’ rose by a third in six months, finds Royal London after FoI request to Student Loans Company. More than 150,000 people in the UK now have student loan debts of more than £100,000, with one borrower owing £298,000, data shows. The company that obtained the figures … Continue reading Not one of the 150 000 UK graduates with student loan debts of £100 000-plus is from Scotland

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Why has there been a massive but unreported reduction in the number of children on the child protection register in Scotland and a widening gap with the other 3 nations but the Herald is on a completely different track?

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With only 3 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 With a tasteless image to cheaply exploit your only-human emotional response and another infantile adding up to get a big number habit, the Herald today has: More than 100,000 Children’s Panel hearings have been held in Scotland since 2020 amid concerns over the efficacy of the nation’s child protection system. A leading children’s charity has raised the alarm, telling The Herald that the ‘stark’ figures demonstrate Scotland’s “national childhood emergency”. … Continue reading Why has there been a massive but unreported reduction in the number of children on the child protection register in Scotland and a widening gap with the other 3 nations but the Herald is on a completely different track?

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Former Labour minister Brian Wilson who called SNP opposition to nuclear ‘stupid’ is employed by nuclear industry

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With only 3 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 Conflict of Interest klaxon……….. Brian Wilson (another former UK politcian who has -too many- Irons in – too many- fires) had written an article for The Herald stating: “The Scottish government must end it’s ‘stupid’ opposition to Nuclear Power” Then Bella Caledonia posted this on ‘X’ on 25 September 2025: “Great to see Brian Wilson jump aboard the nuclear lobby. In October 2005, he was appointed non-executive director … Continue reading Former Labour minister Brian Wilson who called SNP opposition to nuclear ‘stupid’ is employed by nuclear industry

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Brian Taylor platforms shoddy report on school discipline based on zero research evidence and written by known Labour/Lib Dem/Con supporters with absolutely no recent peer-reviewed output

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With only 3 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, 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 Research Ethics Chair I include, the above merely to compare with the ‘team’ at the Commission on School Reform, whose report forms the basis for the Herald’s piece today suggesting major problems in Scotland’s schools. Here are … Continue reading Brian Taylor platforms shoddy report on school discipline based on zero research evidence and written by known Labour/Lib Dem/Con supporters with absolutely no recent peer-reviewed output

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Today’s BBC report on missing Scottish soldiers reminds – ‘It can be said with certainty that men born in Scotland did suffer disproportionately more deaths during the war’

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With only 3 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 BBC Scotland today, has the above story but there is, in it, no mention of the important and controversial issue. in my headline. My headline comes from the conclusions to a thorough examination of the facts published in May 2019. I missed it at the time and, I suspect out media did too. Correct me if I’m wrong on that and anything else … Continue reading Today’s BBC report on missing Scottish soldiers reminds – ‘It can be said with certainty that men born in Scotland did suffer disproportionately more deaths during the war’

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As sick US nuclear weapons workers anticipate action by President Trump why there must be action here on the radioactive tritium emissions around Clyde nuclear sub base which ‘smash into’ your DNA and which have DOUBLED

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With only 4 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 From the Daily Montanan, and covered widely across US media, today: At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Watts knew other missileers with similar cancers. But the connection really hit home later that same January day, when the results of … Continue reading As sick US nuclear weapons workers anticipate action by President Trump why there must be action here on the radioactive tritium emissions around Clyde nuclear sub base which ‘smash into’ your DNA and which have DOUBLED

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All freeports so far ‘encourage drug trafficking, trade in counterfeits, money laundering and a vast array of other crimes’ so can Scotland’s first ‘green’ one really be different?

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With only 4 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 Headlining for BBC Scotland today: A landmark agreement will be signed later concluding a five-year planning process to establish a green freeport in the Highlands. Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport (ICFGF) is expected to generate more than 11,000 jobs over the next 25 years. and: Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes described the signing as an “exciting milestone” that could bring up … Continue reading All freeports so far ‘encourage drug trafficking, trade in counterfeits, money laundering and a vast array of other crimes’ so can Scotland’s first ‘green’ one really be different?