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Retired Professor of Media Politics Not-for-profit independent political analysis
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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?

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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?

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

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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

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‘Prof R misses enormity of the situation’ as final five raw sewage settlement tanks still containing raw sewage are only 5m away from hospital sited deliberately right next to them by Scottish Labour

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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 reader Anonymous, yesterday: I don’t think even Prof R can quite accept the enormity of the situation.  The QEUH site was chosen by NHSGGC despite considerable opposition in 2000 and signed off by Labour’s Malcolm Chisholm in 2002. Chaudhry Sarwar MP, father of his successor Anas (after the constituency boundaries changed) was the local MP. The Labour City Council finished the job. PLUS look carefully at the above photos…where lower picture states “QEUH Facilities” (labs and mortuary btw) immediately above label are the final five settlement … Continue reading ‘Prof R misses enormity of the situation’ as final five raw sewage settlement tanks still containing raw sewage are only 5m away from hospital sited deliberately right next to them by Scottish Labour

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It’s not the Superhospital health board that needs to learn from inquiry because all of its ‘troubles’ resulted from Scottish Labour mysteriously siting it next to millions of litres of raw sewage instead of that nice site now full of nice houses

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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 A short video on this for the time-pressed: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/12/the-real-glasgow-hospital-scandal-is-labour-in-2008-deciding-to-put-it-next-to-tonnes-of-raw-sewage-unlike-any-other-hospital-in-the-world/ Why did I write ‘mysteriously’ in the headline above? This politely euphemistic comment from expert witness Allan Bennett was the first notion I had that all of this media frenzy was misplaced. It was not about the SNP and hospital staff. It was about Scottish Labour: The Times today has another piece blaming the QEUH for bacterial infections it can never 100% exclude and which every other major new hospital in the world avoids by … Continue reading It’s not the Superhospital health board that needs to learn from inquiry because all of its ‘troubles’ resulted from Scottish Labour mysteriously siting it next to millions of litres of raw sewage instead of that nice site now full of nice houses

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Scotland’s IVF service – target-busting for 11 years saving lives and reducing NHS costs as NHS England prices people out of becoming parents but BBC Scotland ignore all that and find a negative

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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 BBC Scotland today has the above and within five paragraphs, this: Most single women are not currently eligible for IVF treatment on the NHS in Scotland. Maeve MacKinnon, from Glasgow, was at the top of the waiting list to begin NHS IVF treatment when she and her male partner split up. Maeve, who was 38 at the time, asked if she could keep her place on the list. “I asked whether I could stay with my consultant for treatment, and she said no, because … Continue reading Scotland’s IVF service – target-busting for 11 years saving lives and reducing NHS costs as NHS England prices people out of becoming parents but BBC Scotland ignore all that and find a negative

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Watch out for media ‘inappropriately’ trying to blow this case up into a ‘Wayne Couzens’ crisis for policing in Scotland and door-step an SNP minister with accusations from Jackie Baillie

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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 For a short video account of this issue see: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/23/why-multiple-rapist-alan-greer-is-not-police-scotlands-wayne-couzens-moment-short-video/ As many of us anticipated BBC Scotland have returned to this case feeling they have found something they can accuse Police Scotland of in the case of Alan Greer and imply failure at ministerial level. What have they found? What were these ‘warnings?‘ Greer made inappropriate phone calls to two women in 2002 and in 2005 with in the second case in London, a formal police caution by the Met. What does ‘inappropriate’ mean … Continue reading Watch out for media ‘inappropriately’ trying to blow this case up into a ‘Wayne Couzens’ crisis for policing in Scotland and door-step an SNP minister with accusations from Jackie Baillie

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Scotland’s drinking water is world class, with more than 99.9% of tests meeting regulatory standards.

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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 Drinking Water in Scotland 2025 Published27 August 2026 09:30 Water Quality Regulator says “Scotland’s drinking water remains amongst the best in the world, but improvement is required to reduce avoidable incidents’’ Scotland’s drinking water is world class, with more than 99.9% of tests meeting regulatory standards. But the Drinking Water Quality Regulator says a rise in avoidable incidents and complaints about discoloured water shows that further improvements are needed to maintain public confidence. https://www.gov.scot/news/drinking-water-in-scotland-2025/ Predictably BBC Scotland are ignoring this completely while STV … Continue reading Scotland’s drinking water is world class, with more than 99.9% of tests meeting regulatory standards.

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Leading academic welcomes dramatic fall in Oxbridge acceptances for Scots applicants

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In the Herald education supplement today, the above, from a fee-paying school head, is titled – Alarm as Oxbridge places for Scots fall’ 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 Thanks to Ian McAnulla for alerting us to this: In the New York-owned Herald today, the above and: While it may be no surprise that success rates are higher in England, more important would be any change in the rate over time. The same analysis notes that in 2016 the combined Oxbridge offer rate for Scottish applicants was 18.4% and the … Continue reading Leading academic welcomes dramatic fall in Oxbridge acceptances for Scots applicants

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Second lowest murder rate in Europe, murder by minors and by knife plummet, overall violent crime less than half the rate in England yet far more police officers

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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 Police-recorded non-sexual crimes of violence did rise 7% in the year ending June 2026 (71,915 to 77,005) and 6% in 2025-26 (71,170 to 75,601). https://www.gov.scot/news/recorded-crime-in-scotland-year-ending-june-2026/ I can’t see the full details as it’s behind a pay wall – pay the DR to check their dodgy stats, you must be kidding! Here are some far more important facts followed by the reason why the above ‘cop’ should stick to his day job. And why? 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 … Continue reading Second lowest murder rate in Europe, murder by minors and by knife plummet, overall violent crime less than half the rate in England yet far more police officers