Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON 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 … Continue reading Scotland’s environment agency TWICE as effective in closing illegal waste dumps

The Herald today has: Reform UK has surged ahead of Scottish Labour while the SNP’s regional vote share falls to its lowest level in 23 years, according to a bombshell poll. The latest polling from YouGov suggests the SNP will remain the largest party in Holyrood by a substantial margin despite a fall in support. YouGov polls have proven themselves regularly unreliable and with a bias against both the SNP and Yes vote. The last two YouGov polls above, uniquely, did not satisfy Wikipedia‘s verification test: In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means that people can check that facts or claims correspond to reliable sources. The last FIVE YouGov polls on … Continue reading YouGov polls cannot be trusted to claim ‘SNP vote falls’

From the Guardian today: Record numbers of offenders are being recalled to prison in England and Wales with union officials claiming that some are deliberately breaking the terms of their probation in order to deal drugs in prison. Prison sources said that after the implementation of early release schemes, as many as 5,000 men were recalled in December alone – more than a third of the total number released in the year to June 2025. The Guardian does not offer an annual total and one does not seem to have been published, but for just one quarter, April – June 2025, there were … Continue reading More than ten times as many, per head, early release prisoners being recalled in England & Wales due to half the staffing in Scotland

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 Record today, SURGE IN CAMPUS SEX ATTACKS. Here are the facts, they won’t tell you. From How safe is your city? in the Complete University Guide for 2025: Above, the safest University cities in England and … Continue reading In every English university town your child is far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than in any Scottish one but the Daily Record has a different story

Above, BBC Scotland’s headline yesterday and then another that they were never going to write but should if they really believed in informing us like their mission statement claims. The above from ECIS – European Cancer Information System for 2024, shows the cancer incidence (longer bars) and mortality rates (shorter darker bars) per 100 000.1 It’d be embarrassing, were we still in the EU, and presented on that chart. BBC Scotland yesterday had: Risk of dying from cancer in Scotland at lowest rate on record but, of course, wasn’t going to be comparing. Why? Scotland incidence is 656 per 100 … Continue reading Scotland’s Union nuclear legacy – among the very highest cancer incidence and death rates in Europe