Scottish Government initiatives push Scotland well ahead of the rest of the UK in preserving nature

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the at times nakedly anti-SNP Ferret yesterday: Only a tiny percentage of Scotland’s most fragile natural environments are being monitored by the national agency tasked with protecting them, The Ferret can reveal, with the number of inspections on the decline. Just 54 protected sites, which include national parks, mountains, wetlands, forests, ancient woods and peatlands, were monitored in 2025 by NatureScot, according to details released under freedom of information legislation. The figure makes up less than three per cent of protected sites, which … Continue reading Scottish Government initiatives push Scotland well ahead of the rest of the UK in preserving nature

Scotland has 21% more to spend on each school pupil but 24% less to spend on each undergraduate than England? Harvard Researchers would say ‘Good, good!’

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Higher Education Policy Institute yesterday and echoed in reports from Universities Scotland and the NUS: How Scotland has 21% more to spend on each school pupil but 24% less to spend on each undergraduate than England. This is all much more important than it might initially sound. Policymaking in Scotland is shaped by the size of its relatively small polity, meaning the political class is tighter and universities have more direct engagement with their political overlords, at least compared to England. This … Continue reading Scotland has 21% more to spend on each school pupil but 24% less to spend on each undergraduate than England? Harvard Researchers would say ‘Good, good!’

UK may follow US lowering nuclear safety standards to increase worker risk of cancer by 20%

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From NPR, two days ago: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to change a foundational rule designed to minimize radiation exposure. The update is part of President Trump’s expansive changes to nuclear oversight, as his administration seeks to revive nuclear energy to power data centers for artificial intelligence. Under a new proposed rule, the agency is eliminating a 50-year-old standard known as “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA), which requires the nuclear industry to drive radiation exposure for workers and the public below the stated limits where … Continue reading UK may follow US lowering nuclear safety standards to increase worker risk of cancer by 20%

Hundreds of you are unconfirmed subscribers and missing the automatic emails from Talking-up Scotland – it’s free here

Of the 1,591 total subscribers on Talking-up Scotland, 845 are confirmed (actively receiving emails) and 459 still unconfirmed. Unconfirmed subscribers are people who signed up to follow the site but haven’t yet clicked the confirmation link in the verification email they were sent — so they’re not counted as active subscribers and won’t receive our posts by email until they confirm. They can check their confirmation status at wordpress.com/email-subscriptions.  Continue reading Hundreds of you are unconfirmed subscribers and missing the automatic emails from Talking-up Scotland – it’s free here

Deaths linked to bacterial infections at Glasgow super-hospital can only be logically attributed to Labour’s mysterious location of a hospital in the middle of a giant ‘septic tank’ full of sludge ‘that cannot be contained’

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 I must thank an Anon contributor for much of the recent information posted here. I am finding it a bit out of my comfort zone so corrections are welcome. We can now identify a shocking 5 locations – raw sewage aeration tanks, activated sludge basins – right on the edge of the Hospital campus. The external expert advisors were not made aware of the full scale of all of this but even then were shocked that the chosen site was near any sewage works … Continue reading Deaths linked to bacterial infections at Glasgow super-hospital can only be logically attributed to Labour’s mysterious location of a hospital in the middle of a giant ‘septic tank’ full of sludge ‘that cannot be contained’

Does not being paranoid mean they’re out to not get me?

BBC Scotland’s top brass in a Holyrood committee room in March 2014, above, to explain why they had reported an academic to his employer because of his research showing they had been objectively and quantitatively biased against the Yes side. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 The man they had reported, the only academic they had ever reported to his employer, Professor John Robertson, Faculty Research Ethics Chair of the University of the West of Scotland, had spoken to the committee just before. They had been together on the train … Continue reading Does not being paranoid mean they’re out to not get me?

When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it!

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S “When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it”. Well so far a lot of people are seeing Burnham as being not so “different” from the one that he replaced, indeed Burnham is being seen by many people as being nowt more than a ‘Continuity Starmer’. The Guardian reported on 26 August this year that: “Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors” . Now that is a biggie , as in a betrayal, or is … Continue reading When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it!

How London Mayors have overseen dysfunctional police services far, far more rotten than anything seen in Scotland

By Liz S Let’s focus on (Tory and) Labour’s record on policing elsewhere shall we (as English Mayors and/or UK Home Secretaries)? The s*** that has continuously gone on with the London Met police in their poor record on cases that they have failed to investigate properly or dealt with, is , as far as policing is concerned , an embarrassing position to be in and also a clear example of how not to police within an area, a city or a country (like within England for example). Since January 2012 the Mayor of London is responsible for the governance of the Metropolitan Police through the Mayor’s office … Continue reading How London Mayors have overseen dysfunctional police services far, far more rotten than anything seen in Scotland

How can this one patient be the news when NHS Ayrshire & Arran treats 99% of cancer patients within 31 days, above the 94% Scottish average?

This story is on all the Daily Record-owned sites today, typically ill-informed anti-Scotland excrement. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 But from Audit Scotland, no friend of the Scottish Government, this real news: You know what to do. Never buy anything we can all produce internally. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Continue reading How can this one patient be the news when NHS Ayrshire & Arran treats 99% of cancer patients within 31 days, above the 94% Scottish average?

As Iran successfully hacks a ‘small’ gas-fired power station how do Scottish Labour propose to protect their multiple small modular nuclear reactors

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Guardian today: Hundreds of Britain’s smallest power plants could remain at a higher risk to state-sponsored cyber-attacks until the 2030s despite a successful Iran-linked hack last month, it has emerged. Officials this week briefed energy bosses on the breach, which is understood to have shut an unnamed small gas power plant for four days last month, and put the industry on alert over the growing cyber threat facing energy infrastructure. However, the government’s own plan to toughen the baseline cybersecurity standards for … Continue reading As Iran successfully hacks a ‘small’ gas-fired power station how do Scottish Labour propose to protect their multiple small modular nuclear reactors