Scottish Government backs new AI programme and BBC Scotland Business make intelligent move to ignore it for the Union
Closing today, 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 UKAuthority, yesterday: A new initiative aimed at helping Scottish businesses harness the power of AI has been launched, backed by nearly £1 million in Scottish Government funding. The programme will provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with tailored consultancy services and grants to adopt or expand AI technologies, fostering innovation, market growth, and investment. Delivered by enterprise agencies, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and … Continue reading Scottish Government backs new AI programme and BBC Scotland Business make intelligent move to ignore it for the Union
Welsh Labour standing up for Wales and how but for Scottish Cons and Labour the SNP might have shut down institutional child abuse
Closing today, 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 Welsh Labour above with help from BBC Wales stand up for Wales in the debate over Labour’s ID proposals. Scottish Labour and BBC Scotland? Toilets. Anywhere else in BBC Scotland? The flag gets no mention and the SNP become the target with: The Scottish Conservatives said Labour’s plans were flawed and would lead to “state control” which violated the right to privacy. But they also claimed … Continue reading Welsh Labour standing up for Wales and how but for Scottish Cons and Labour the SNP might have shut down institutional child abuse
How’s the mood there in Liverpool? Well the drug gangs are enjoying the one-way trade making millions and keeping Scotland’s drug deaths up
With only 2 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 Scotland are in Liverpool today for the Labour Party Conference but they haven’t managed to pin Anas down for some tough questions about his boss or the numerous sex -offenders he hosts. Will their BBC Liverpool colleagues be asking how Glasgow has managed to get such a low crime rate since the SNP took over? Eurovision Decision: Liverpool has nearly twice the … Continue reading How’s the mood there in Liverpool? Well the drug gangs are enjoying the one-way trade making millions and keeping Scotland’s drug deaths up
Ferret journalists far more than ‘slightly’ wrong on Pete Wishart’s accurate claim that English drug deaths are ‘written out of figures’ when UK civil servants estimated 25% undercounting in 2023!
With only 2 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 Thanks to Bob Lamont for alerting me to this: The Ferret on 24 September 2025, concluded: Pete Wishart is wrong to say that “thousands of deaths in England simply written out of the figures”. The statistics on the total number of drug-related deaths in England are not in question, but new research has found undercounting in the proportion of deaths that … Continue reading Ferret journalists far more than ‘slightly’ wrong on Pete Wishart’s accurate claim that English drug deaths are ‘written out of figures’ when UK civil servants estimated 25% undercounting in 2023!
How Labour has betrayed the people of Wales with an NHS ‘brought to its knees’
With only 2 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 As Scotland’s shoppers (and voters) view the front pages of newspapers without having to buy them whilst in supermarket queues and elsewhere (perhaps via the BBC), the messaging that NHS Scotland is ‘really bad’ and it’s that SNP’s fault, is fed drip by drip by drip – constantly, repeatedly – into the nation’s and the electorate’s consciousness. After all, according to BMA Scotland … Continue reading How Labour has betrayed the people of Wales with an NHS ‘brought to its knees’
Clyde shipbuilding welding centre was never off track as Rolls Royce declare massive profits and shareholder dividends bloated by Ukraine war
With only 2 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 Scotland today: A specialist welding facility to support shipbuilding, planned for a site beside the River Clyde, looks set to go ahead after the UK government confirmed £2.5m of extra funding. The £11m project, led by Rolls Royce, aims to support the construction and maintenance of Royal Navy submarines. The plans were left in doubt earlier this year when it emerged … Continue reading Clyde shipbuilding welding centre was never off track as Rolls Royce declare massive profits and shareholder dividends bloated by Ukraine war
A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidden from you
With only 2 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 Record today making much of a crime wave tiny in the wider context of the English County Lines drug gangs plaguing Scotland. What is the list of crimes affecting Scotland? This: Timeline: How the gang feud developed Very upsetting, I know, for all involved but only damage to property and no serious violence, no deaths. How does the above compare with the … Continue reading A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidden from you
Many many thanks to the 400 donors but more than 1 000 Talking-up Scotland subscribers and countless thousands on social media apparently think it’s not even worth a quid
I know some of you 1 488 subscribers will not touch social media and that more than 1 000 of you have not donated even £1, so I’ve posted this again in TuS. With only 1 day left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/hel… or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talki… Continue reading Many many thanks to the 400 donors but more than 1 000 Talking-up Scotland subscribers and countless thousands on social media apparently think it’s not even worth a quid
As the Labour chancellor promises to prioritise UK firms for shipbuilding contracts, history tells us we cannot trust them
With only 2 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 Liz S Anas Sarwar tweeted this yesterday : “So much for Stronger for Scotland…. More like SNP – Stronger for Poland. This is a huge blow to Scottish shipbuilding. Once again, jobs and investment going abroad on the SNP’s watch” This was in relation to the news that “Ferguson ship yard misses out on new CaLMac Ferry order” as headlined on the BBC website, … Continue reading As the Labour chancellor promises to prioritise UK firms for shipbuilding contracts, history tells us we cannot trust them
Scotland’s better building standards mean no ‘towers of terror’ here much as the Sunday Mail might wish for them
With only 2 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 Sunday Mail‘s front page is a classic of melodramatic misrepresentation of the facts, based with little apparent sense of irony, upon a 1968 explosion in London and pointing to risk in large panel systems. What are these LPS concrete panels the Sunday Mail would have us panic over? From Grok AI (Powerfully helpful as long as you ask the right questions and can … Continue reading Scotland’s better building standards mean no ‘towers of terror’ here much as the Sunday Mail might wish for them
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