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/detailsor, if you prefer, a bank transfer, at sort code 089300 account 1421 7339 Professor John Robertson OBA In the wake of multiple reports, globally, of giant jellyfish blooms choking power stations, we have a number of reports of the dangers that might be posed by radioactive insects. From the Daily Beast: Workers have discovered a wasp nest in South Carolina exceeding 10 times the radiation level allowed by the federal government. Employees at the Savannah River Site were conducting regular radiation tests when they … Continue reading Updated – Wasp nest found near nuclear site in US which exceeds by 10 times the radiation level allowed by the federal government, casts further doubt on Scottish Labour plans in the land of 200 000 TRILION angry midges

Professor John Robertson OBA From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios April 2024 to March 2025 published today, the above graph reveals that all of Scotland’s hospitals have mortality ratios within the normal range confirming the complete absence of any postcode lottery here. Of particular interest, the large Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, extreme right, often unjustly criticised in media and serving one of the most disadvantaged populations in Scotland, has a below average mortality ration of 3.7, below the Scottish average. Source: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/hospital-standardised-mortality-ratios/hospital-standardised-mortality-ratios-april-2024-to-march-2025 In England, we see more evidence of a two-tier system here with a cluster of hospitals in affluent areas … Continue reading Repeated hard evidence that there is no postcode lottery in Scotland’s hospitals and that Glasgow’s super hospital is actually safer than average

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 or, if you prefer, a bank transfer, at sort code 089300 account 1421 7339 Professor John Robertson OBE, TuS Sare Knees Correspondent I couldn’t help but be interested in the above headline as my knees settle into the recommended posture on my ergonomic computer chair this morning. This story is a bit kniche perhaps but also shocking. BBC Health tell us today: A knee-replacement implant, used in thousands of UK [sic] operations, was known to have a concerning failure rate eight years before it … Continue reading Has NHS Scotland replaced this faulty knee implant still being used elsewhere in the UK?

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 or, if you prefer, a bank transfer, at sort code 089300 account 1421 7339 Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Graham for alerting me to the above in the P&J today, and: Man caught with class-A drugs in Aberdeen gets locked up – Dawood Mahmood, from Sheffield, had cocaine and diamorphine worth more than £5,000 at a flat he was using in the city. From Graham: Yet another FEB drug dealer taken off our streets, kudos to the P&J for reporting on these cases … Continue reading Once again BBC Scotland hiding the Englishness of Scotland’s drug network