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With TWELVE times as many temporary school exclusions and ONE THOUSAND times as many permanent exclusions, PER HEAD, than Scotland, England’s schools are in a deep crisis fuelling County Lines gangs and street violence

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 In the Guardian today: The proportion of secondary school students in England removed from class and placed in “internal exclusion” as a disciplinary measure has almost trebled in three years, according to new data. The data shows the proportion of secondary pupils removed from normal lessons went up from 5% in the 2022/2023 academic year to 13% in 2025/26 – a 160% increase. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/03/proportion-of-secondary-school-students-in-england-placed-in-internal-exclusion-almost-triples-in-three-years I can’t quickly access comparable percentages but, in May this year, we were able to compare total numbers per head of population, following … Continue reading With TWELVE times as many temporary school exclusions and ONE THOUSAND times as many permanent exclusions, PER HEAD, than Scotland, England’s schools are in a deep crisis fuelling County Lines gangs and street violence

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Oil, Renewables and Data Centres

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61575625542197 There is something very revealing about the way Scotland’s resources are discussed and pumped into our living rooms via our television screens. During the 2014 independence referendum, North Sea oil was presented as nothing but a risk to everyone living in Scotland. We were warned about falling production, volatile prices and the dangers of over-relying on oil revenues. Alistair Darling described relying on oil as “gambling with our children’s future.” On Sky News, June 2014, Gordon Brown ‘England’s Lord … Continue reading Oil, Renewables and Data Centres

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Brass Neck – BBC Scotland returns to the scene of their criminal lies about NHS Tayside’s cancer care which will have harmed many there

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that will no longer exist under these new Government structural reforms but they do have to do something pretty transformational with the NHS because there have long been warnings that it is financially unsustainable. BBC Scotland‘s Health Correspondent Lisa Summers, above, makes a return to NHS Tayside, the exact same spot, 7 years after she decided, all on her own, that it was ‘dysfunctional.’ Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 As reported here in April 2019, the NHS Tayside breast cancer treatment team, after experimenting with reduced chemotherapy doses to … Continue reading Brass Neck – BBC Scotland returns to the scene of their criminal lies about NHS Tayside’s cancer care which will have harmed many there

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Embrace ‘Manchesterism?’ What, for more homelessness, crime, corridor care and poverty? For less affordable housing and letting wildfires burn longer? Two Scottish profs are mad fer it clearly

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Says who? Prof Sir AntonMuscatelli and Iain Anderson (Jethro Tull?). Have they read anything about Manchester recently? Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Wot, like this? Full text at:https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=Manchester Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Continue reading Embrace ‘Manchesterism?’ What, for more homelessness, crime, corridor care and poverty? For less affordable housing and letting wildfires burn longer? Two Scottish profs are mad fer it clearly

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Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms significantly more likely to pay staff minimum wage than in other parts of UK

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Top story at BBC Scotland Business and front page on the BBC Scotland News site but barely mentioned across other BBC sites, ‘Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms that failed to pay staff.’ Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From BBC Scotland today: Fifty firms in Scotland have been revealed on a UK government list naming and shaming employers that failed to pay staff minimum wage. Three of the companies topping the list in Scotland – including North East bakers Murdoch Allan & Son – each owed more than … Continue reading Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms significantly more likely to pay staff minimum wage than in other parts of UK

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Another crime surge into Scotland from England that must be fogged

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and is a problem across the UK. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 BBC Reporting Scotland last night investigating the sale of illegal tobacco, let slip their awareness that this is linked to organised crime and is a phenomenon moving from the south, that is ‘England.’ is starting to set in. Scotland has much lower crime than England & Wales and that is not good for the image of the Union – more dangerous together? This one has been a huge success for criminals from England looking for new territory: … Continue reading Another crime surge into Scotland from England that must be fogged

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Child grooming gangs like those in Rochdale and Rotherham in Scotland – sometimes the [complete] absence of evidence can mean the evidence of absence

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the extent of child abuse carried out by grooming gangs in Scotland, according to a review. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 For some reason, but not unusually for Reporting Scotland, this story is not reported more fully on their website. The National review of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation and child criminal exploitation Last updated: 3 September 2026 has not found evidence of any large-scale grooming gang activity comparable to that found across the ‘north’ of England in places like Rotherham and Rochdale, where more than a thousand … Continue reading Child grooming gangs like those in Rochdale and Rotherham in Scotland – sometimes the [complete] absence of evidence can mean the evidence of absence

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Jackie Baillie’s hypocrisy as Keir Starmer spends £60 130 of taxpayer money on a private jet trip to watch the Leopardesses 

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S Jackie Baillie posted this on X on 20 August (based on a BBC article that had a headline “John Swinney defends £45,000 business-class flights to World Cup”). “Such luxury in a cost-of-living crisis is not the lived experience of most Scots. Perhaps the FM should have considered the expectations of taxpayers before spending our money. It’s not the first time the SNP have been cavalier with the company card”. Meanwhile I am sure that the same Jackie Baillie was not so ‘concerned’ at these stories: “Sir … Continue reading Jackie Baillie’s hypocrisy as Keir Starmer spends £60 130 of taxpayer money on a private jet trip to watch the Leopardesses 

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Lucy Whyte didn’t appear to know that freezing the cost of supermarket staples was a Scottish Labour manifesto pledge

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S As Jackie Baillie was interviewed by the BBC radio in Scotland in a softly softly interview that was mostly, as per, an opportunity for her to have yet another public platform to scream #SNPBAD via the BBC in Scotland. Yet here is what I found online in the ‘Scottish’ Labour manifesto for the 2026 Scottish elections. 30 April 2026 “100 Days of Change” This was on the ‘Scottish’ Labour website: “If international instability continues, deliver £100 million of emergency support including … Continue reading Lucy Whyte didn’t appear to know that freezing the cost of supermarket staples was a Scottish Labour manifesto pledge

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1 586 fully-researched rebuttals and revelations in 2026 so far – help us keep going

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep goinghttps://crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to:JOHN WATSON ROBERTSONSort Code – 08-91-04Account 12266421Many thanks to the 104 supporters so far.36 000 visitors in August1586 researched posts in 2026 so farJohn Continue reading 1 586 fully-researched rebuttals and revelations in 2026 so far – help us keep going