Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON This will get me more than the usual level of whitabootery complaints and, of course, I agree that any violence against NHS staff is utterly unacceptable but voters are entitled to know which party has reduced it most. Some, too, will say, that’s nothing to do with the SNP but if they do ask them ‘What if it had gone up, who’d be to blame then?’ Anyhow, the Guardian today has: The health service’s 2025 staff survey found that one … Continue reading Voters are entitled to know which party has reduced violence against NHS staff the most before they vote – 30% in Scotland after nearly two decades of….

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON On BBC Scotland‘s insert in BBC Breakfast at 6.30 and 8.30 am so far, after the Glasgow fire report, for the first time since 2019, BBC Scotland news broadcasts specifically locate a long-running plague of drug abuse across Scotland in origins entirely in large English cities. I’ve been following this for years and was, understandably shocked, especially as we approach the May elections. The link with England is not headlined but appears quite quickly: Police have made 43 … Continue reading Seven years after the County Lines drugs and violence plague begins and for the first time ever, BBC Scotland tells viewers that it is because of specifically ‘English’ crime groups

The Herald today has: The Scottish Government faces a new transparency row over civil servants working from home as statistics are set to be withheld until after the Holyrood election. Pressure is mounting on SNP ministers to crack down on officials who refuse to work from the office as part of the Scottish Government’s hybrid working policy. Where is this ‘mounting pressure’ coming from? Anyone else? Nope, that’s it. Pathetic. Is there any evidence that any half-decent journalist might easily access and use in her writing? From a UK Government study of 25 290 civil servants with a 98% response rate across 34 departments, published in … Continue reading Major research funded by Conservative Government in 2020 reveals ‘home working generally supports productivity’ but Scottish Cons, all by themselves, are causing ‘mounting pressure’ on SNP ‘secrecy’ about it according to journalist who has not read the research

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC Leicestershire today, the above and: A youth worker has warned girls in a market town are being lured into drug running by gangs operating across county lines. Kate Champneys has worked with several teenagers in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, who she said were groomed with gifts and affection. Champneys, of the Engage Youth and Family Service, which supports vulnerable young people, said: “They’ll end up being runners for the men who get hold of them, they’ll give … Continue reading County lines gang members who ‘have been through the justice system in England’ target vulnerable women in Highlands months before they do same in England?