I have a Google Alert for ‘County Lines’ and every day I receive around 5 to 10 links to reports in newspapers across the UK, other than in Scotland. Yet Police Scotland estimate around 55 County Lines drug gang groups are operating in Scotland’s towns and cities, from Dingwall to Dumfries. When I search for ‘County Lines Scotland’, I get the above as the first three hits – a report by an SNP MP in a top international policing journal but ignored in Scotland and two posts in Talking-up Scotland. There’s clearly something uncomfortable in this narrative for our MSM … Continue reading Not Better Together? Hundreds of County Lines Gang stories in a month but not one about the 55 groups operating in Scotland?

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Today, BBC Scotland’s Glenn Campbell has a go at the incoming FM with: Big tensions remain in SNP as Swinney takes leadership and: There are also big delivery challenges with long waits for many NHS patients, a sense of decline in some areas of education and major budget pressures to be addressed. There is, of course, no context to the claims. To read that context in all of these and more in full: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=waiting+ To see the official statistics-based evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/page/3/?s=waiting+ Continue reading As BBC Scotland’s Campbell links Swinney to supposed ‘long waits’, the facts about NHS Scotland’s shorter waits