Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Being broadcast widely today, the above TUC claim is not yet confirmed by official data. The most recent data from the ONS in October 2025, reveals this: The gender pay gap varied substantially between regions in April 2025. It was lower in Northern Ireland (1.1%), Wales (1.9%) and Scotland (3.5%) than in every region of England. This is a different pattern from April 1997, when the gender pay gap was lowest in London, as shown in Figure 8. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/genderpaygapintheuk/2025#the-gender-pay-gap-by-region The average for England is 8.8%, more than twice that in Scotland. … Continue reading Gender pay gap in England TWICE than in Scotland having fallen faster and further in SNP years

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Yesterday, in one day alone, Talking-up Scotland performed like this: The 6 posts, like those on almost every other day in the year took hours to research and write. I’m not complaining about the work. It’s good for me at 74 but I cannot help seeing this below as a sobering assessment of how the value of it is really perceived by almost everyone of those thousands. Tell me why I’m wrong? Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Continue reading Talking-up Scotland yesterday attracted more than eight thousand discrete visitors and more than ten thousand views yet…..

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. The ‘Scottish’ Daily Express, today, has: SNP accused of ‘gross mismanagement’ as NHS Ayrshire placed in special measures and down the page, this major inaccuracy: Mr Whittle [Tory list MSP] said: “The escalation of NHS Ayrshire and Arran is deeply alarming, and the buck stops with the SNP. Their gross mismanagement of the health service over the last two decades means health boards have been pushed beyond breaking point. “Waiting lists are through the roof and A&E waiting times at hospitals such as Ayr and Crosshouse have skyrocketed on the SNP’s … Continue reading NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board may be in debt but is performing well above 90% and above the national average on four important targets but local Tory MSP attempts to shame local staff

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. England’s Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray, have delighted in the the alleged slower digitisation of health data in Scotland, even calling John Swinney, ‘analogue‘ in a very nerdy niche joke. However, in the Guardian yesterday: Health officials fear Palantir’s reputation will hinder the delivery of a “vital” £330m NHS contract, according to briefings seen by the Guardian, sparking fresh calls for the deal to be scrapped. In 2023, ministers selected Palantir, a US surveillance technology company that also works for the Israeli … Continue reading Wes Streeting and Ian Murray humiliated as Scotland’s roll-out of health data digitisation now seem likely to be smoother and quicker than that in England

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Evidence here – https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/daily-records-confuses-suspects-with-criminals-to-scare-you-and-ignores-scotlands-far-lower-murder-rate-and-violence-against-women-to-scare-you/ Important – my full range of fleeces now exposed, still lip-scarred and not frothing (!) and perhaps my least professional presentation? With the guys at South Park and big Karl, if he knew of them, I eschew production values, as bourgeois distractions from brutal reality….I do….really….. 😉 Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Continue reading Daily Record’s front page today exposed for what it is – short video

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Only the day before yesterday and Labour MSP Pam Duncan Glancy had doubled down on a defence of her friendship with a convicted paedophile so, was understandably the top story on the BBC Scotland website. Surely, this one would run and run, she was defending her contact with a paedophile, as we have seen with the now ten year-old ‘infected hospital deaths’ story featuring Anas Sarwar as heroic lead or the Sturgeon/Murrell ‘fraud’ case in 2023. Today, in record time, she’s gone, gone completely! Let’s compare this with BBC Scotland’s coverage … Continue reading Labour MSP and friend of convicted paedophile disappears completely from BBC News in just two days unlike Nicola and Peter back in 2023

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Still fighting hard for Scottish Labour, the Record has another of it’s utterly dishonest and immoral front pages today, with in the opening lines: ‘Killers and rapists are among thousands of fugitives on cops’ wanted list.’ These are presumably suspects rather than criminals, as yet. Murder makes up only 0.015% and sexual violence makes up only 5% of all crime in Scotland so we’re not, as they hope you might think, talking about thousands of either. Here is the truth about murder in Scotland: Here is the truth about sex crimes: … Continue reading Daily Record confuses ‘suspects’ with ‘criminals’ to scare you and ignores Scotland’s far lower murder rate and violence against women..to scare you