As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?

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 Professor John Robertson OBA Headlining on BBC Scotland today, the above tragic case and: Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a young woman seven years after she became seriously ill with a hospital-acquired infection in Glasgow. Molly Cuddihy, 23, died in the high dependency unit of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in the city on Tuesday. In 2018 Molly developed septic shock while receiving cancer treatment at the same hospital campus, which is now at the centre of a public inquiry into … Continue reading As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?

UK Parliament Lib Dem MP in London: Are sexual crime statistics 30% higher than and increasing at twice the rate of Scotland, in England & Wales ‘deeply troubling?’

The Scottish Lib Dems, Wendy Chamberlain MP has manged to get in the Scottish Legal News today to say: New crime statistics showing a five per cent increase in sexual crimes “paint a deeply troubling picture” about violence against women and girls in Scotland, the the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/lib-dems-sexual-crime-statistics-deeply-troubling It’s not clear why a Westminster MP should be attempting to scare Scots on crime figures which are far lower than and increasing more slowly in England & Wales. Did she comment on the latter when they came out. I doubt it. In Scotland, sexual crimes were 5% higher compared … Continue reading UK Parliament Lib Dem MP in London: Are sexual crime statistics 30% higher than and increasing at twice the rate of Scotland, in England & Wales ‘deeply troubling?’

I blame the Normans. We might have lived with the English

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 Professor John Robertson OBA Watching the above new BBC series on the Norman invasion of England in 1066 and seeing how close a thing it was, I wonder if, had it failed, might we all be better off, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish and every part of what was to become the British Empire with its regular massacres, genocides and famines? Reading again a blog post by Professor David Churchill, University of Leeds, my thoughts were reinforced. Churchill writes, in 1066: What If…? Let’s say the English … Continue reading I blame the Normans. We might have lived with the English

Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round?

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 Professor John Robertson OBA From People requiring a social care assessment and care at home services published yesterday The estimated number of people assessed and waiting for a care at home package [in Scotland] was 3,264 on 4 August 2025. This [fell in the last week] represents an increase of just under 2% from the estimated number of people waiting for a care at home package this time last year on 5 August 2024.1 From Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: July 2025 [most recent … Continue reading Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round?

Significant Adverse Events running at TWICE the level in NHS England and NHS Wales to confirm leading European experts views on patient safety in NHS Scotland

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 Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald today is reporting the above 5 year total in their usual juvenile style to get a big number for the headline. Here is the annual breakdown: So, taking account of the inevitably lower figures during the pandemic, a relatively flat trend, perhaps falling in 2025? Are these big numbers? NHS England have solved their problem by just not recording these events, since 2017, but in 2018, a Blackwater Law Freedom of Information request, reported 20,235 serious incidents across 228 NHS … Continue reading Significant Adverse Events running at TWICE the level in NHS England and NHS Wales to confirm leading European experts views on patient safety in NHS Scotland

Thames Water’s sewage spill fines 5 THOUSAND times greater in one year than for Scottish Water since 2019

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 Professor John Robertson OBA Today, in the Guardian: Thames Water has agreed a payment plan with the water regulator for fines it owes worth £123m, as it races to secure funding to avoid temporary nationalisation. The water company, which serves 16 million customers across London and the south-east, is currently trying to pull together a deal to avoid collapse. Earlier this month the government approved the appointment of insolvency advisers FTI Consulting to consult on plans for Thames Water to be placed into a special administration regime. The … Continue reading Thames Water’s sewage spill fines 5 THOUSAND times greater in one year than for Scottish Water since 2019

As energy price rises loom, a reminder of why Michael Shanks will not protect us and why Scots would pay far less after independence

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 Professor John Robertson OBA As energy price rises loom, a reminder of why Scots would pay far less once independent. From stewartb in June 2025: I fear that a majority of the electorate in Scotland still have NO IDEA of – (perhaps even conditioned to have no interest in?) – Scotland’s indigenous energy assets and their potential significance for their own lives and those of their children and grandchildren. Little or no awareness of the scale of value of offshore oil & gas assets in the … Continue reading As energy price rises loom, a reminder of why Michael Shanks will not protect us and why Scots would pay far less after independence

Major increase in numbers of newly qualified paramedics though NHS Scotland already has an astonishing 50% more per head than England

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 Professor John Robertson OBA From Increase in numbers of newly qualified paramedics published 25 August 2025: Health Secretary Neil Gray has welcomed an increase in the number of newly qualified paramedics joining the Scottish Ambulance Service, with 360 new recruits joining the service since 2023. New figures show a steep increase in recruitment between 2022-23 and 2023-24, and a total recruitment of 489 since 2020. The investment in newly qualified paramedics is designed to give the service more resilience, improve capacity and increase the number of … Continue reading Major increase in numbers of newly qualified paramedics though NHS Scotland already has an astonishing 50% more per head than England

‘If I die, it’s your fault for employing more GPs?’ No wait…..there are MORE? Didn’t someone predict fewer on the Telly this morning? They’re working harder too so…the Record is confused

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 Professor John Robertson OBA The ‘Scottish’ media had been getting themselves into a right tizzy yesterday hopefully anticipating reduced GP numbers to reinforce the above story from BMA (Anti-Scotland) about how difficult it is to access over-worked GPs. The results didn’t helped them so they’re not looking. First there are more GPs, 3 591.5 in 2024/2025 compared 3453.1 to last year, 138 more, but for the Daily Record ever creative, that was down on the randomly selected 2019 figure of 3 613, a only 21.5 more. … Continue reading ‘If I die, it’s your fault for employing more GPs?’ No wait…..there are MORE? Didn’t someone predict fewer on the Telly this morning? They’re working harder too so…the Record is confused

Crime in Scotland climbs by 1% but still remains at barely a third of the level in England & Wales where it climbs by 7% – imagine the media if that was the other way round?

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 Professor John Robertson OBA From Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending June 2025 published yesterday (plain text), Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2025 published on 24 July 2025 (italics) and my comments (bold): The Police in Scotland recorded 303,343 crimes in the year ending June 2025. This was 1% higher than the 300,078 crimes recorded in the year ending June 2024, and 1% higher than the 300,747 crimes recorded in the year ending June 2021. In England and Wales, 9.4 million incidents of … Continue reading Crime in Scotland climbs by 1% but still remains at barely a third of the level in England & Wales where it climbs by 7% – imagine the media if that was the other way round?