With only 5 days left, 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 or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA BBC UK is worrying about anti-social behaviour in England today. BBC Scotland have not followed their lead. Perhaps this is why: From Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2024-25 published in June 2025, we see massive reductions in all forms of anti-social behaviour, an overall halving and major reductions in every type. In 2007, while classification differed then, the figure was around 94 000, TWICE … Continue reading As BBC UK worries about it in England, anti-social behaviour in Scotland plummets to half what it was under Scottish Labour in 2007

With only 6 days left, 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 or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From CBC in British Columbia, Canada, two days ago: B.C. Ferries told CBC News that the Queen of Surrey vessel is expected to be back in service along the Langdale-Horseshoe Bay route for Monday’s 1:15 p.m. sailing. The ferry operator said it has reinstated some previously cancelled sailings as it works to restore regular sailing schedules out of Horseshoe Bay. B.C. Ferries has cancelled a … Continue reading Affluent British Columbia has to replace one 44 year-old broken-down ferry with another 44 year-old ferry in a fleet on average 13 years older than those of CalMac

With only 6 days left, 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 or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By cuckooshoe The BBC Scotland website yesterday also covered the RCEM report on excess deaths ‘linked’ to long waits, but their focus was on the figures for excess deaths only in Scotland. The college (RCEM) therefore estimated 818 excess deaths were recorded for people waiting more than 12 hours. This is equal to about 16 deaths a week. The same BBC article failed to make … Continue reading Royal College estimates 20 times as many (twice per head) excess deaths linked to long waits in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

With only 6 days left, 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 or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA The Telegraph yesterday had: Scotland plots uncapped council tax rises for second home owners – Green Party’s ‘pile on the costs’ proposal will be ‘gold standard’ for tackling homelessness. Councils in Scotland are poised to be granted powers to penalise second home owners with uncapped council tax premiums. On the Second Homes Tax, I know, based on the evidence that matters, access to a … Continue reading As the Telegraph worries its Southern readers with ‘Scotland plots uncapped council tax rises for second home owners’, I say ‘MORE!’