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Retired Professor of Media Politics Not-for-profit independent political analysis
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Significant trend in reducing numbers waiting more than 8 and 12 hours in Scotland’s Type 1 A&E departments over last year

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Media coverage of waiting times in Type A&E departments tends to focus on longer term trends where, inevitably, there has been a worsening picture, in every part of the developed world and which is due to multiple, not fully understood, factors such as changing patterns of patient behaviour and expectations, in GP behaviour and in background socio-economic factors such as austerity and drug abuse. Hospitals do not have the power, … Continue reading Significant trend in reducing numbers waiting more than 8 and 12 hours in Scotland’s Type 1 A&E departments over last year

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News you won’t hear anywhere else – More than 90% of Scottish schools pass inspection on their performance regarding learning, teaching and assessment and raising attainment and achievement

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From Primary and secondary school inspections in 2024/25: FOI release, published today and answering these questions: we can see on the key questions of standards of Learning, teaching and assessment and Raising attainment and achievement, on which all 168 Primary and Secondary schools were assessed, the following results: On the third question, the response was: Education Scotland does not hold the information you have requested, and therefore, we are applying … Continue reading News you won’t hear anywhere else – More than 90% of Scottish schools pass inspection on their performance regarding learning, teaching and assessment and raising attainment and achievement

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As UK Labour acts to worsen hospital postcode lottery fears in England with a league table, how Scotland’s hospitals are all pretty much the same – good, safe, reliable

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Health today, the above and: New league tables rating the performance of NHS trusts in England have been published for the first time, with specialist hospitals taking the top slots. Number one is Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, followed by the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust and cancer centre the Christie NHS Foundation Trust. At the bottom is Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, which has … Continue reading As UK Labour acts to worsen hospital postcode lottery fears in England with a league table, how Scotland’s hospitals are all pretty much the same – good, safe, reliable

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As BBC UK today reports charges of corporate manslaughter in Lancashire stroke unit news of the Scottish Government’s stroke improvement plan that has already saved 2 000 is kept from you

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Lancashire, today the above and: Police are investigating potential corporate failings contributing to the death, ill-treatment or neglect of patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s stroke unit, BBC North West has learned. Offences under consideration by Lancashire Police include corporate manslaughter, corporate ill-treatment and wilful neglect, and offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act. The investigation was launched in October 2023 after the prosecution of five health … Continue reading As BBC UK today reports charges of corporate manslaughter in Lancashire stroke unit news of the Scottish Government’s stroke improvement plan that has already saved 2 000 is kept from you

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Flood of ‘British’ austerity refugees into Scotland in the SNP era THREE TIMES the current flow of asylum seekers from war zones and may even surpass the level of Irish famine refugee migration in 1845/1851

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA June 2023 Snapshot: As of June 2023, 4,660 individuals [asylum seekers] were receiving Section 95 support, 109 were on Section 98 support, and 554 were on Section 4 support in Scotland. https://www.gov.scot/publications/extending-right-work-asylum-seekers-scotland-evaluation-analysis-policy-options/pages/4/ 4-5 000 a year – is that large number of refugees? From The Irish Famine in a Scottish Perspective 1845-1851 by Géraldine VAUGHAN, in 2015, it is estimated that there were roughly 115,000 Irish incomers to Scotland for those six years.1 … Continue reading Flood of ‘British’ austerity refugees into Scotland in the SNP era THREE TIMES the current flow of asylum seekers from war zones and may even surpass the level of Irish famine refugee migration in 1845/1851

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This is a crisis made in London and dumped on Scotland as ‘thousands’ of asylum seekers expected to flee Labour’s new hostile environment to Scotland where they have a legal right to be housed that does not exist in England

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Record today, the Glasgow City Leader worries that Labour’s asylum hotels crackdown will lead to even greater numbers fleeing north to overload her city’s resources: A crackdown on hotel stays for asylum seekers will be “disastrous” for Scotland as thousands try to get homes here, a council leader warned. As part of a tougher regime for migrants the Home Office has halved the amount of time they can remain in … Continue reading This is a crisis made in London and dumped on Scotland as ‘thousands’ of asylum seekers expected to flee Labour’s new hostile environment to Scotland where they have a legal right to be housed that does not exist in England

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Retiring charity head implies revolutionary Child Payment and SNP’s commitment to reverse two-child limit is just ‘doing the same things day after day’ as she continues to campaign for Labour and aims for an honour like Pam Duncan Glancy

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Today, under shamefully exploitative imagery of sad children, the Herald has: A “new honesty” is needed to transform the lives and futures of Scotland’s poorest children, according to a leading charity. SallyAnn Kelly, chief executive of Aberlour Children’s Charity, has called for a greater culture of cooperation across public, private and third sectors in Scotland to improve the lives and life chances of children growing up in poverty. and: You see … Continue reading Retiring charity head implies revolutionary Child Payment and SNP’s commitment to reverse two-child limit is just ‘doing the same things day after day’ as she continues to campaign for Labour and aims for an honour like Pam Duncan Glancy

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Bonfire Night firework offences were down 33% last year and injured firefighters fell from 62 to 1 but Reporting Scotland finds two locals to predict otherwise this year

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that experienced some of the worst disorder on Bonfire Night last year. 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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA This is not an SNP council, so of course, there is no mention that it is a Labour one being criticised here. The source? ‘Data’. Not reported in the morning broadcast nor in the fuller online report, this from November 2024 looking back on 5 November 2024, the most recent data obviously: Fireworks Night a ‘damp squib’ as … Continue reading Bonfire Night firework offences were down 33% last year and injured firefighters fell from 62 to 1 but Reporting Scotland finds two locals to predict otherwise this year

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How can a ‘rebuttal unit’ have nothing since November 2023 and then only two non-rebuttals? As for the Streisand Effect – Pure Barbara!

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Is there another SNP Rebuttal Unit? The above has pretty much no rebuttals of media bias and nothing of any kind for two years now. In September 2024, one year ago, we had: THE SNP have provided an update on their research and rebuttal unit, as only two articles have been published on this section of the party’s website. Most striking in this update which largely evades the question of why only … Continue reading How can a ‘rebuttal unit’ have nothing since November 2023 and then only two non-rebuttals? As for the Streisand Effect – Pure Barbara!