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Yet another maternity unit in NHS England exposes women and babies to “significant risk, while in NHS Scotland after 18 years, the service is better-staffed, safer and more equitable

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With only 7 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 BBC West Yorkshire today, the above and: An NHS trust at the centre of concerns over its poor maternity services has had to repay almost £5m after wrongly claiming it provided safe care to mothers and their babies. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was paid the money after saying its services met safe standards of care and staffing. But a subsequent investigation … Continue reading Yet another maternity unit in NHS England exposes women and babies to “significant risk, while in NHS Scotland after 18 years, the service is better-staffed, safer and more equitable

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Jackie Baillie was sort of correct on Minimum Unit Pricing and alcohol deaths but she won’t like the truth

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With only 7 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 As BBC Scotland report that Scotland’s alcohol deaths have fallen to the lowest level since 2019, helpfully reposted by MSM Monitor yesterday, Jackie Baillie‘s infamous statement in 2018: We don’t believe minimum unit pricing is the ‘silver bullet’ that the SNP Government claim it is. Did anyone, SNP minister or not, ever claim that MUP would be a ‘silver bullet?‘ The fall will … Continue reading Jackie Baillie was sort of correct on Minimum Unit Pricing and alcohol deaths but she won’t like the truth

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A&E long waits – Candidly, the mainstream media is complicit in enabling Gulhane and Baillie’s hypocrisy

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With only 7 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 stewartb There is so much more that could be written about the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) statement on long waits in NHS Scotland’s emergency departments and their impact, and on the mainstream media’s coverage of this. And then there is the MSM’s amplification – without any critical appraisal – of quotes from the Tory Sandesh Gulhane and Labour’s Jackie Baillie. From the … Continue reading A&E long waits – Candidly, the mainstream media is complicit in enabling Gulhane and Baillie’s hypocrisy

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Last call to help Talking-up Scotland tell the truth about Scotland, after rebuttals of lies and revelations of good news – on NHS GP access, better A&E, more trees, walking home safely, the safer A9, English drug gangs, falling drug deaths, lower homelessness and fewer train cancellations, in just the last 24 hours

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With only 6 days left, support Talking-up Scotland‘s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://t.co/A2zZXgkp85 or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Our posts in the last 24 hours: Continue reading Last call to help Talking-up Scotland tell the truth about Scotland, after rebuttals of lies and revelations of good news – on NHS GP access, better A&E, more trees, walking home safely, the safer A9, English drug gangs, falling drug deaths, lower homelessness and fewer train cancellations, in just the last 24 hours

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Surely if ‘anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters clash in Glasgow’ there’d be trouble?

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With only 7 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 Guardian‘s ‘Scotland’ Correspondent, Libby Brooks, on 20 September 2025, had: Anti-immigration protesters have clashed with anti-racist counter-protesters in tense scenes in Glasgow this afternoon, a week after the largest far-right event in decades took place in London. The statue of Scottish statesman Donald Dewar, father of the Holyrood parliament, was surrounded by union flags bearing the words: “Stop the boats” and “Unite the kingdom”. … Continue reading Surely if ‘anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters clash in Glasgow’ there’d be trouble?

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Suicides in Scotland have dropped significantly since 2007 but in England & Wales, they began to climb again that same year and are still climbing

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With only 7 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 In a report which quickly moves to to spend all of it’s time on the higher rate in deprived areas and, sickeningly, platforms Jackie Baillie of the UK Labour party ultimately responsible for the poverty that drives suicide rates there, to demand that more must be done in Scotland, BBC Scotland briefly tells us: The number of probable suicides in Scotland has fallen … Continue reading Suicides in Scotland have dropped significantly since 2007 but in England & Wales, they began to climb again that same year and are still climbing

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The scale of the drift to privatisation – Nearly 100% of GPs in Scotland work in the NHS but only 66% do so in England

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With only 7 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 In the Guardian last week, the above and: One in three GPs in England do not work in the NHS, with increasing numbers seeking to move abroad or becoming a private contractor, deepening patients’ difficulties in getting appointments. The proportion of family doctors who, although qualified, do not provide care through the NHS has risen from 27% in 2015 to 34% last year, according to a study … Continue reading The scale of the drift to privatisation – Nearly 100% of GPs in Scotland work in the NHS but only 66% do so in England

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The Herald’s disgusting dishonest clickbait imagery and the truth of homelessness FOUR times higher in England and 95% under a roof in Scotland

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With only 7 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 On 21 September 2025, the Herald has the above two tasteless images and the headlines: 40,000 homeless law breaks as ScotGov housing emergency branded ‘sham’ Why are Scots councils allowed to break homeless laws ‘with impunity’? The first is based on yet-another infantile adding up to get a big number method, over 8 years this time. The second is, frankly, a disgusting misrepresentation … Continue reading The Herald’s disgusting dishonest clickbait imagery and the truth of homelessness FOUR times higher in England and 95% under a roof in Scotland

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BBC London reports that Scotland has by far the lowest train cancellations in the UK but BBC Scotland is not looking at that

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With only 7 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 BBC London report has made it onto the BBC UK and BBC England ‘front pages’ but is utterly absent from BBC Scotland. Scotland has by far the fewest cancellations. Remember these single digit percentage differences refer to thousands cancelled services. You can see the data for Scottish stations: All are performing better than the British average but I feel sure BBC Scotland … Continue reading BBC London reports that Scotland has by far the lowest train cancellations in the UK but BBC Scotland is not looking at that

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How can there be ‘an A&E crisis’ of deaths ‘associated’ with long waits only in Scotland when they are actually falling here and nearly FOUR times as common in NHS England?

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With only 7 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 This morning, the Scotsman and the Metro are feeding BBC Scotland with the idea based on the emergency doctors’ trade union report, the RCEM, that long A&E waits are ‘associated with’, ‘costing‘ and the ‘toll‘ from stays of 12 hours and more. Only BBC Scotland has this headlined. As always there’s a basic flaw in their argument – the number waiting 12 hours … Continue reading How can there be ‘an A&E crisis’ of deaths ‘associated’ with long waits only in Scotland when they are actually falling here and nearly FOUR times as common in NHS England?