STV today, has: Figures show that 135 serious organised crime groups are currently assessed as active in Scotland, seven of which involve children or young people. Data obtained by STV News through a freedom of information request details known crime operations in Scotland over the last five years. The total number of active serious and organised crime groups fell this year compared with 2024/25 – but the figure is higher than five years ago. This is all very well but, frankly, the report ignores, and you have to ask why, the clear facts that, in terms of the horrors of … Continue reading At the street level, the extreme violence, the sex trafficking, the ‘cuckooing’ of the vulnerable in their homes, and the child ‘mules’ with deadly drugs stuffed inside their bodies is an invasive plague everywhere in Scotland and one run by monsters, every one of them, from England – the solutions are clear

In October 2023, after Professor Dorling’s fulsome praise for the SNP’s Child Payment, BBC Wales had Prof Danny Dorling, of Oxford University, said the Scottish payment was the most significant attempt to tackle child poverty seen anywhere in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. “It is clearly the most direct way to help people,” he said. “The parents of children, and especially their mothers, are the people who have their interests most at heart,” he said. “So any talk that says that some other method is better is going against all the evidence that we’ve collected for decades. … Continue reading The BBC did report Professor Dorling more fully and how the Child Payment costs Scotland less than one-percent of its budget but ONLY for its audience in Wales

A quick, one-day Twitterpoll of 306 suggests that just over 90% of Talking-up Scotland followers had not heard these words, from 2023, reported here two days ago : To my mild embarrassment, I had been aware of him saying something positive about Scotland’s unique child payment, but had not thought to watch the whole comment until being reminded of it by a Freedom of Information report from the Scottish Government last week. Dorling was quite emotional and enormously excited by the initiative. He too had noticed the bias by omission across the MSM. The above poll, only a 100 times … Continue reading How the SNP’s ‘Biggest success story in social policy in the UK for 40 years and the biggest fall in child poverty anywhere in Europe for at least 40 years’ was effectively hidden for two years, from 90% of you, including me – Some F******g Professor!

I happened to spot the above in a wee advert for the BBC, reminding us that only it can be trusted to prepare us to go out into the world knowing what faces us. The prevailing south-westerlies must be blowing away from England, the stench of moral decay in Pacific Quay just along the Clyde from a giant sewage works. Is that why they put the BBC Scotland HQ there? Mind you, they got upwind while the big hospital got downwind. BBC Scotland is beyond untrustworthy. Oh, yeh? My granny trusts it so I dae tae! Prove it tae me! … Continue reading BBC UK’s troubled sibling, squirming like a toad in Fort Pacific Quay, is clearly not known to a service that does it quite well from Alaska, heading East, all the way round to Kamchatka