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News you won’t hear – massive reduction in emergency hospital admissions due to assault and assault with a knife, in last 10 years

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: August 2025, published today: Fall in emergency hospital admissions due to assault since 2014-15. In 2023-24, there were 1,691 emergency hospital admissions due to assault, including 438 due to assault with a sharp object. These were, respectively, 33% and 18% lower than in 2014-15. https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-report-august-2025/pages/statistics-on-community-safely/ Continue reading News you won’t hear – massive reduction in emergency hospital admissions due to assault and assault with a knife, in last 10 years

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News you won’t hear – fires fall by 10% to lowest in 10 years

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: August 2025, published today: Number of fires fell 10% in the last year. In 2023-24, there were 24,060 fires in Scotland, down 10% on 2022-23 and the lowest in the last ten years. There were 42 fire fatalities in 2023-24, down from 43 in 2022-23 and around the average for the last decade. https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-report-august-2025/pages/statistics-on-community-safely/ Continue reading News you won’t hear – fires fall by 10% to lowest in 10 years

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Auditor General Stephen Boyle accuses Scottish Government of telling complete idiots not to build houses on land liable to flood as global warming increases the risks

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. What do you notice in the above SEPA map of flood risk in Ayr? There’s barely a house at risk. For centuries, Scots have not built on flood plains knowing how heavy rain can be and how big our rivers can get, but today, via BBC Scotland, Auditor General Stephen Boyle is at it again, this time trying to blame the Scottish Government for not putting in place protection for idiots who insist on building on flood plains. The Sepa website tells you where there is an increased risk due to … Continue reading Auditor General Stephen Boyle accuses Scottish Government of telling complete idiots not to build houses on land liable to flood as global warming increases the risks

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Not just increasing breast cancer rates among mature women but now ‘terrifying and almost unbuildable’ – Sizewell C nuclear power station does not seem to worry Scottish Labour

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA Once again, thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this. From the FT, yesterday: The design of the UK’s latest nuclear power station is “terrifying”, “phenomenally complex” and “almost unbuildable”, according to Henri Proglio, a former head of EDF, the French state-owned utility behind the project.  One month after the final green light for Sizewell C, 1,700 workers are on site in Suffolk, on the UK’s east coast, preparing the sandy marshland for two enormous reactors that will eventually generate enough electricity … Continue reading Not just increasing breast cancer rates among mature women but now ‘terrifying and almost unbuildable’ – Sizewell C nuclear power station does not seem to worry Scottish Labour

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In NHS Wales A&E after decades of Labour-control, three times as many wait more than 12 hours, twice as many wait more than 8 hours and nearly one third more wait more than 4 hours yet it’s ‘dangerous’ here?

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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 By stewartb Imagine the following was happening in Scotland? Imagine if the British Labour Party and its ally, the Daily Record could lay blame for the following on the Scottish Government! Source: StatsWales (https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Hospital-Waiting-Times/emergency-department ) NHS Wales waiting times in major emergency departments during July 2025: Meeting the 4 hour standard = 54.1% Attendances spending over 8 hours in A&E = 24.3% Attendances spending over 12 hours in A&E = 14.9%. The Royal College of Emergency (RCEM) commented on these latest figures in a press release on August … Continue reading In NHS Wales A&E after decades of Labour-control, three times as many wait more than 12 hours, twice as many wait more than 8 hours and nearly one third more wait more than 4 hours yet it’s ‘dangerous’ here?

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As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA Headlining on BBC Scotland today, the above tragic case and: Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a young woman seven years after she became seriously ill with a hospital-acquired infection in Glasgow. Molly Cuddihy, 23, died in the high dependency unit of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in the city on Tuesday. In 2018 Molly developed septic shock while receiving cancer treatment at the same hospital campus, which is now at the centre of a public inquiry into … Continue reading As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?

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UK Parliament Lib Dem MP: Are sexual crime statistics 30% higher than and increasing at twice the rate of Scotland, in England & Wales ‘deeply troubling?’

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA The Scottish Lib Dems, Wendy Chamberlain MP has manged to get in the Scottish Legal News today to say: New crime statistics showing a five per cent increase in sexual crimes “paint a deeply troubling picture” about violence against women and girls in Scotland, the the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/lib-dems-sexual-crime-statistics-deeply-troubling It’s not clear why a Westminster MP should be attempting to scare Scots on crime figures which are far lower than and increasing more slowly in England & Wales. Did … Continue reading UK Parliament Lib Dem MP: Are sexual crime statistics 30% higher than and increasing at twice the rate of Scotland, in England & Wales ‘deeply troubling?’

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I blame the Normans. We might have lived with the English

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA Watching the above new BBC series on the Norman invasion of England in 1066 and seeing how close a thing it was, I wonder if, had it failed, might we all be better off, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish and every part of what was to become the British Empire with its regular massacres, genocides and famines? Reading again a blog post by Professor David Churchill, University of Leeds, my thoughts were reinforced. Churchill writes, in 1066: What If…? Let’s say the English … Continue reading I blame the Normans. We might have lived with the English

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Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round?

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA From People requiring a social care assessment and care at home services published yesterday The estimated number of people assessed and waiting for a care at home package [in Scotland] was 3,264 on 4 August 2025. This [fell in the last week] represents an increase of just under 2% from the estimated number of people waiting for a care at home package this time last year on 5 August 2024.1 From Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: July 2025 [most recent … Continue reading Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round?

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Significant Adverse Events running at TWICE the level in NHS England and NHS Wales to confirm leading European experts views on patient safety in NHS Scotland

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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 Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald today is reporting the above 5 year total in their usual juvenile style to get a big number for the headline. Here is the annual breakdown: So, taking account of the inevitably lower figures during the pandemic, a relatively flat trend, perhaps falling in 2025? Are these big numbers? NHS England have solved their problem by just not recording these events, since 2017, but in 2018, a Blackwater Law Freedom of Information request, reported 20,235 serious incidents across 228 NHS … Continue reading Significant Adverse Events running at TWICE the level in NHS England and NHS Wales to confirm leading European experts views on patient safety in NHS Scotland