The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser closing on Friday, primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS  From BBC London in May 2019: Three county lines drug dealers who used vulnerable teenagers as runners in a coastal city have been jailed in a “landmark case”. Glodi … Continue reading London County Lines ‘drug lord’ jailed six years ago in ‘landmark’ slavery case admits today using children to deal in Aberdeen but such drama is hidden by ‘Scottish’ media

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser closing on Friday, primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS  Westminster sub-polls of around 200 Scots over 18 are not, in themselves, strong indicators of support for the different parties but when 12 in a row tell a very … Continue reading 12 sub-polls in a row confirm SNP trending back toward 40%, Reform UK stuck around 15% and Labour/Conservatives drifting down to insignificance

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser closing on Friday, primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS and Scotland’s only half-decent Ferry Correspondent The Herald‘s Martin Williams, today, has : Campbeltown anger at three-year cut to ‘lifeline’ CalMac ferry service – Ferry operators have come under fire … Continue reading How can a ferry be a ‘lifeline’ to a mainland town when there’s a road that’s more than one hour quicker than the ferry?

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser closing on Friday, primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS  Thanks to Jim Draper for alerting me to this. In the Independent today: Almost four in five NHS doctors have been forced to provide care in the likes of corridors, chairs … Continue reading Less than a third of one percent of ‘UK’ doctors and not even one in Scotland has said they’ve ‘been forced to provide care in the likes of corridors, chairs and waiting rooms’ yet ‘4 in 5’ elsewhere in the UK ‘have?’