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 In the National yesterday: and: What on earth is the point in this? Does Aberdeen do a Masters in Murder now? Talk about scraping a barrel. How do we know they met in Aberdeen? AI can find not a trace of them in Abderdeen. Lewisham and Aberdeen have similar populations, 300 000 and 227 000 but very different homicide rates, 11 in Lewishasm last year compared to only 4 in Aberdeen, 1.7 and 3.7 per 100 000 respectively. Sources: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-year-ending-june-2026/ https://aoav.org.uk/2026/londons-2025-murders-examined-key-figures-in-the-uk-capitals-homicides/ Back to the … Continue reading Murder is so rare in Scotland our media have to scrape up a story of a Nigerian and a Ugandan in London who met in Aberdeen years before

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 BBC UK today: Cleveland Police’s Chief Constable has said she is proud of her “brave” force but that it was being “let down” by the way it was funded, following a fatal crash which killed seven people including two police officers. In her first sit-down interview since the A66 crash, speaking exclusively to the BBC, Victoria Fuller said the force needed to become part of a larger force with greater resources. She said her officers are dealing with some of the highest crime … Continue reading Welcome to Cleveland – 50% more crime per 1 000 population than Glasgow and twice the violence

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 It was a dead cert! When the media operating in Scotland headline concerns about school attainment, they have a very small set of ‘experts’ to call on, all summarily dismissed here umpteen times before. Today, it’s Carol Ford again. Understandably, this does not merit another costly investigation by TuS. Here’s our extended report from last December: 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 … Continue reading Always ‘concerned’ former prof guesses first time that ‘concerned former head’ is just failed Lib Dem candidate Carol Ford and claims prize from Scotsman

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 Thanks once more to Frances McKie for alerting us to this from Bloomberg UK today. The key points are: EDF extended a planned maintenance outage at one of its 57 nuclear reactors after signs of corrosion were found. The reactor is Gravelines 5 at the Gravelines plant in northern France (near Dunkirk). The outage will now run until January 25 (of the following year), seven weeks longer than originally planned. This cuts French nuclear output during a key part of the winter heating season. … Continue reading Corrosion costs French nuclear energy 38bn in lost revenue in 2025 and rust-related outages to run into 2027 – how do Scottish Labour react?