With only 7 days left, 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 – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland‘s Environment Correspondent, Kevin Keane has been reporting: About 2.5 million more trees will be needed in Scotland’s towns and cities to create “tree equality”, according to the Woodland Trust. He hasn’t provided any background on the overall situation with regard to tree planting in Scotland. From Forest Research, Time Series in 2024: In the period of SNP administration in Scotland, from … Continue reading Kevin Keane forgets to tell you that the SNP has planted nearly 20 times as many new trees as Labour Wales and more than 3 times as many as Conservative England

With only 7 days left, 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 – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Scotland on Sunday has the above claim based on this quote from the Scottish Household Survey 2024 findings: neighbourhoods and communities report published on 16 September 2025: In 2024, the majority of people (78%) said they felt ‘very’ or ‘fairly safe’ walking alone in their neighbourhood after dark, this is a decline from 81% in 2023.  https://www.gov.scot/publications/neighbourhoods-communities-2024-findings-scottish-household-survey/pages/6/ By whom is the … Continue reading More adults in Scotland feel safe walking home than under Labour and emergency admissions due to assault plummet

With only 7 days left, 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 – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the last week, BBC Scotland have been dwelling on an A9 crash with a view, it seems, to fuelling the narrative that it is a dangerous road and one which is dangerous because the SNP has not dualed it. Neither reports offers any accident figures to contextualise the stories. These two reports are an attempt to keep the narrative alive … Continue reading Massive fall in A9 deaths and Scotland having safest roads in UK do not fit BBC Scotland narrative for Holyrood election in 2026

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 I’ll be quick, very quick, with this frankly awful piece on the Herald‘s front page today. First, that’s ‘investigated‘. Remember everything has to be investigated. The above infantile adding up to get a big number neither tells us the direction of any trend nor does it tell us how many were actually convicted. My table above does. Revealing or whit? The number of police officer convicted of a crime is … Continue reading Crimes committed by police officers in Scotland plummets to between 3 and 5 (0.03%) of all 16 700 officers – Herald has infantile report on front page

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 pollsters Find out Now for 10th September 2025, the above. The full UK sample of 1 522 has Labour a poor second but still, nevertheless, second because too many of them feel they have nowhere else to go, until Corbyn gets back into these polls. The Scottish sample is too small to be reliable but still potentially unnerving for the SNP and humiliating for Labour, down in last place. … Continue reading Only a small sub-poll sample but Reform UK just ahead of SNP and Labour in 6th and bottom place

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 Surely popping up in the in-trays of any self-respecting environment correspondent today, from Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Statistics (2024): https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-vacant-derelict-land-statistics-2024/pages/11/, the above graph and: Scottish Government Vacant and Derelict Land FundAcross the seven councils in the VDLF from 2005 to 2023, an estimated 192,700 properties (both private households and communal establishments) were within 500 metres of land reclaimed with the involvement of the VDLF. Has Kevin reported on the above great news … Continue reading SNP Government brings 10 times more vacant and derelict land back into use than Labour ever did – will any Environment Correspondent tell you this? Fat chance