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 the New York Post, yesterday and in four other major US newspapers: US regulators are warning customers not to eat or serve potentially radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart — citing possible health dangers including a higher risk of cancer. Frozen raw shrimp sold by Walmart’s private label Great Value has been recalled after US Customs and Border Protection detected Cesium-137 in the supplier’s shipping containers at ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Savannah and Miami.  Cs-137 is a radioisotope that is typically … Continue reading As the US authorities tell Walmart to pull radioactive shrimp from shelves for fear of damage from long-term, low-dose exposure, why must Scottish consumers accept levels doubling the risk of child leukaemia, caused by Sellafield and banned in places like Japan?

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 Many thanks once more, to Brenda Robb, for sharing this evidence with us. Above, a typical BBC Scotland headline for a Labour councillor who has abused young girls. Below, how SNP councillors who go wrong are labelled: I’ll leave you to keep clicking to see the endless proof. If you try Labour councillor, you’ll get plenty but they’re all in England or Wales. If you try BBC Scotland Labour councillor, you will get only this, with none of the many sex … Continue reading Hard evidence that for BBC Scotland, SNP councillors who go wrong are always ‘SNP councillors’ while Labour ones are concealed to protect their Anas

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 BBC Scotland has today has the above, and: Money raised from seized criminal assets should be directly reinvested in efforts to fight organised crime, a police watchdog has said. In an annual report, HMICS said the Scottish government should consider an “asset recovery incentivisation scheme” that would allow Police Scotland – and other agencies – to use money raised from criminals’ assets to combat crime. A similar scheme is already in operation across the rest of the UK. Keep those ‘other agencies’ … Continue reading Prevention is better than prosecution? Scottish Government uses £156 million of cash seized from criminals to help young people at risk of becoming involved in offending

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 Scotsman today has this: In January 2024, I wrote: Via the BBC’s How long do patients wait for an ambulance? app today, we can confirm that the average waiting time for a Scottish ambulance is 8 min and 46 secs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59549800 Also, from BBC UK on 14 December 2023: Average response times of more than 38 minutes for category two emergency calls such as heart attacks and strokes – above the target time of 18 minuteshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67714151 Yes, I know the English figures are only for Category … Continue reading As Scotsman front pages Harley Street private consultant to claim, based on one control centre misunderstanding with his son, they are ‘in total breakdown’ how Scotland’s ambulances were FOUR times faster in early 2024 before BBC pulled the site where I got the facts

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 Record today has: Cancer patient’s 15 hour wait for A&E doc revealed on day new figures show deadly rise in emergency room delays The one patient is on the front page. The rise is a one week increase in the figures published yesterday, of from 8901 in the previous week to 9434 but, not mentioned, this is down from 9754 in early June and simply part of a naturally fluctuating pattern over several weeks. Here is the trend over the … Continue reading There is no ‘deadly rise in emergency room delays’, it’s a non-deadly fall over the last year