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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?

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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?

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Major study by respected Nuffield Foundation finds higher educational achievement across the board in Scotland

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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, for nearly 40 years a schoolteacher, a teacher education lecturer, Associate Dean for Quality Assurance, research methods lecturer, PhD supervisor and Faculty Research Ethics Chair From Comparing inequality and outcomes across post-16 education in the UK, published in the last few days: Since the formal introduction of devolution in the late 1990s, post-16 education and training (E&T)has looked increasingly different across the four nations of the UK, particularly as policyapproaches have diverged. With such differences in post-16 E&T across the UK, there are clearopportunities … Continue reading Major study by respected Nuffield Foundation finds higher educational achievement across the board in Scotland

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As British Labour Party politicians persist in gaslighting Scotland, is Labour’s disturbing legacy of 26 years of devolved government in Wales fair game for examination?

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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 By stewartb “To put it bluntly, educational outcomes are a source of major concern in Wales” (Education Policy Institute, July 2025). When the BBC News website published an article headlined ‘Pass rates up for Scottish pupils in latest exam results’ on August 5, it reported (but did not headline) that there had been a reduction in the attainment gap: ‘The SQA said the attainment gap – between the level of qualifications achieved by children from the most affluent and the least affluent areas – … Continue reading As British Labour Party politicians persist in gaslighting Scotland, is Labour’s disturbing legacy of 26 years of devolved government in Wales fair game for examination?

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Hard evidence that for BBC Scotland, SNP councillors who go wrong are always ‘SNP councillors’ while Labour ones are concealed to protect their Anas

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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There is no ‘deadly rise in emergency room delays’, it’s a non-deadly fall over the last year

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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

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Risk of dying from cancer falls by 11% in Scotland and performance leads that in England so Express headline story to claim we’re ‘lagging behind England’ today is a disgusting piece of lying propaganda and fake news to undermine SNP

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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 Daily Express today has a front page of awesome dishonesty, of an order that a Nazi propagandist might have baulked at: SCOTLAND LAGS ‘SERIOUSLY’ FOR CANCER TREATMENT I’ve no idea who said ‘SERIOUSLY’ but I doubt their reliability. As the Express leads, low IQ-style, with the total number increase, Here are the facts about that: First, the RISK of dying from cancer in Scotland fell by 11% From the Public Health Scotland report which the Express has based its distortions … Continue reading Risk of dying from cancer falls by 11% in Scotland and performance leads that in England so Express headline story to claim we’re ‘lagging behind England’ today is a disgusting piece of lying propaganda and fake news to undermine SNP

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Contrast in treatment by politicians and media of 2024-25 examination results in Scotland and in the rest of the UK was stark

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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 By stewartb The contrast in treatment by politicians and the mainstream media of the 2024-25 examination results in Scotland and in the rest of the UK was stark. I listened to extensive news coverage by the BBC of the results for England, NI and Wales. Journalists, politicians and various ‘stakeholders’ commented on the nature, persistence and intractability of the attainment gap in England. Candidly, the coverage was informative: contributions were made in a ‘grown-up’ kind of way. Partisan politicking was at most minor. Meanwhile … Continue reading Contrast in treatment by politicians and media of 2024-25 examination results in Scotland and in the rest of the UK was stark

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Will BBC Scotland expose Labour or will it employ a news blackout to protect Anas Sarwar? A suspended Scottish Labour Councillor who groomed and sexually abused an underage teenage girl is to be sentenced today”

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By Liz S “MSM Monitor tweeted at 8.38am today…. “Will BBC Scotland report this or will it employ a news blackout to protect Anas Sarwar? A suspended Scottish Labour Councillor who groomed and sexually abused an underage teenage girl is to be sentenced today” The BBC did an article about this on the 23 July 2025…..with the headline “Councillor guilty of sex offences against teenage girl” ….note the exclusion of the (Labour) party name in the headline…..in the article they stated this (also note that they , the BBC, know the date, 19 August, when he was to be sentenced)……. … Continue reading Will BBC Scotland expose Labour or will it employ a news blackout to protect Anas Sarwar? A suspended Scottish Labour Councillor who groomed and sexually abused an underage teenage girl is to be sentenced today”