Sick of working so hard 7 days a week with my wee helpers then having to beg for money to pay them. 3 800 readers in one day and only 14 contribute. Crowdfunder cancelled, payments refunded and paywall being explored. At least we’ll have some pride. John Continue reading Enough
In the Guardian today: ‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain There’s only one mention of Scotland: But it is not just the south-west facing ever more floods as the climate crisis bites. Environment Agency data estimates 6.3m properties in England are at risk of flooding, rising to 8m by 2050, with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland also hit hard. Wow, impressive research there…not. In the Guardian 14 October 2025, the above maps showing only two wee bits of Scotland with a 25% risk and the Highland and Borders moving up to 15%, of serious flooding … Continue reading Scottish homes will probably not have to be abandoned: how climate crisis has reshaped RumpUK’s flood risk
Support Talking-up Scotland -In this election year in Scotland, the 90% pro-Union media and their sponsors in the opposition parties will do everything they can to undermine the pro-independence parties. Thought vastly outnumbered, we will do our very best to counter their lies and get you, every day, the true stories and the sources of evidence to prove them. Help us if you can at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-get-the-facts-for-you In the Daily Record, 2 July 2010: LABOUR has selected union official Matt McLaughlin as the party’s candidate to fight next year’s Scottish Parliament election. Mr McLaughlin was chosen as the party’s standard-bearer for … Continue reading Former Labour candidate in BBC Scotland’s attack on supposed ‘under-fire’ Scottish health boards today yet none are being investigated like the 16 English health trust maternity units which are in ‘special measures’ for high mortality, 4 investigated by the police
Support Talking-up Scotland -In this election year in Scotland, the 90% pro-Union media and their sponsors in the opposition parties will do everything they can to undermine the pro-independence parties. Thought vastly outnumbered, we will do our very best to counter their lies and get you, every day, the true stories and the sources of evidence to prove them. Help us if you can at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-get-the-facts-for-you Four years ago, on BBC Scotland, I heard an island spokesperson suggest that CalMac ferries was the worst service in the world and that they should visit other countries to learn from them. Getting … Continue reading Are Scotland’s ferries the worst or the best in the world?
In the Guardian today: NHS medical negligence persisting in England ‘despite 24 years of warnings’ – MPs on influential committee excoriate health department and NHS England for errors costing £3.6bn a year. Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years’ worth of warnings, MPs have said. In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts committee (PAC) excoriates the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for allowing the cost of mistakes to balloon to £3.6bn a year. Between them, the two bodies have failed to … Continue reading NHS England pays out NINE times as much as NHS Scotland, per head, for clinical negligence
It’s been argued that women should be able to retire at 60 because by then they often have caring responsibilities for elderly vulnerable parents reducing demand on the NHS and for grandchildren, enabling parents to work and help the economy. Is there research evidence for these claims? The answer below is Grok AI-assisted ie more trustworthy than you’d get from a politician or a newspaper that supports them. There is: Caring for Elderly Parents and Potential Reduction in NHS DemandMultiple studies confirm that women in their 50s and 60s are disproportionately involved in unpaid care for older relatives, with peaks … Continue reading The benefits for the NHS and for the wider economy of women retiring around 60 – peer-reviewed research evidence is unambiguous and the SNP knows what to do about it
That headline is quote from a Herald Facebook comments section.1 Another comment suggested – ‘Labour had more to gain from the opening of the hospital as they had 9 councillors sitting on the health board.’ There were several other comments suggesting similar views. Are these any less reliable than what we have heard from BBC or Herald reporters or from Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie insisting that the SNP Government is to blame for forcing the hospital to open too early? Why would the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board care when the hospital opened? It was entirely their … Continue reading ‘It was Glasgow Labour Councillors on the Board who exerted pressure to get QEUH open without delay and without fully informing SNP/Scot Gov of full facts about concerns’
According to BBC Breakfast this morning, the UK Environment Agency has been criticised for a failure to act on massive illegals waste dumps. You might not be expecting me to write this but, in Scotland, the dumping looks to be just as bad with Sepa reporting 58 dumps assessed as high-risk (posing significant environmental threats, typically larger-scale operations)1. The differences are in performance. In 2024/25, Sepa intervened and closed 167 sites.2 Ten times the population, the EA ten times bigger, the task ten times bigger as we saw above, so around 1 670 interventions? Nope, 7433, less than half as … Continue reading Scotland’s environment agency TWICE as effective in closing illegal waste dumps
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