From Cheaper bus travel for Highland communities published yesterday: People across the Highlands and Islands are set to benefit from more affordable public transport as £2 capped bus fares are rolled out this month. The pilot will significantly cut fares across the Highland network and is one of a range of measures the Scottish Government is taking to support households hit by rising everyday costs. Fares such as a single adult journey from Wick to Inverness, currently £31, and a single adult journey from Elgin to Inverness, currently £15.60, would be capped at £2. Following a successful launch in Shetland and the Western … Continue reading Burnham only to cap local routes but Swinney’s 103 miles, 4 hour, Wick to Inverness bus fare cut from £31 to only £2 still stands 

Four out of seven top stories might suggest you live in an increasingly violent world in Scotland today but things have changed, a lot, after nearly 20 years of centre-left/protecting public services as opposed to centre-right/cutting public services, politics. 2. youth violence 3. Rape 4. Child abuse 5. Domestic abuse Continue reading Your world today is quite different than the one BBC Scotland constructs for you

Ed Miliband is Labour’s new UK Government Foreign Secretary. Some of us remember his threat to try to put us off voting Yes in 2024. Sadly, it may have worked for some. Things have changed. We need a hard border and we’ll put the Black Watch on the border. Why? Full text with sources of evidence for all of the above at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/page/2/?s=border Continue reading News of Andy Burnhams’s new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband welcomed in Scotland for promise of hard border to keep drug gangs, measles and right-wing extremists in and free electricity out of England

Only 4 days ago, the Herald’s token capable journo had the above. On the 30th May 2025, he had this below. Both came and went in a matter of hours and today, there is no trace of this narrative in the Herald: What about the rest of the media operating in Scotland? Just the Herald. Ask ‘BBC Scotland food exports?’ Mustn’t be in the public interest or I feel sure they’d tell us. 😉 Continue reading ‘Scottish food and drink exports six-times England per head?’ Really, why don’t we all know that?

How many international football matches between England and Scotland have each won? England have won 49, Scotland have won 41, with 26 draws, for a total of 116 matches (as of the latest data from 2023). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England%E2%80%93Scotland_football_rivalry This is the all-time head-to-head record for official senior international matches between the two teams (the oldest international football rivalry, dating back to 1872). England leads overall, though Scotland has a strong historical record at home. https://www.11v11.com/teams/england/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Scotland/ Spain with 9 times our population? Scotland has 4 wins, Spain has 7 wins, and there have been 4 draws in 15 total senior international matches … Continue reading The Great Over-achievers – Only 10% of the population but 35% of the wins between England and Scotland and with them only winning 42% of the 116

From Proceeds of Crime and Asset Recovery data for 2025/26: FOI release published today data equivalent to that compiled in FOIs 202600505817 and 202600505933 for the years 2025/26. https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202600516318/ The funds raised in England & Wales are disproportionally higher, more than twice per head of population mainly due to the concentration of financial crime and its prosecution in the courts in London. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asset-recovery-statistics-financial-years-ending-2020-to-2025/asset-recovery-statistics-financial-years-ending-2020-to-2025 Scotland uses the funds more directly and visibly for charities and preventative youth projects via a single flagship programme. England & Wales emphasises boosting law enforcement capacity first, giving the money to police forces, with a secondary … Continue reading In Scotland 29 charities benefit by more than £6 000 pa from funds recovered from crooks

The Express is pushing the above. It’s a complete misrepresentation of the facts. The Scottish Government is introducing Air Departure Tax (ADT) from April 2027 as Scotland’s replacement for UK Air Passenger Duty (APD). It will initially match UK APD rates for all flights, including commercial/holiday ones. Then, from April 2028, they’ll add a Private Jet Supplement that raises taxes specifically on private jets. https://www.gov.scot/publications/delivering-scotlands-air-departure-tax/pages/4/ Is this fair in terms of the environment? Yes, this is designed to make super-wealthy users “contribute fairly” under a “polluter pays” approach, as private jets emit far more CO₂ per passenger. Will it make … Continue reading This is a complete lie – SNP will NOT make your holiday flight more expensive but only the 12 000 private jet flights a year by the likes of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and footballers like Jens Hjertø-Dahl