Property and violent crime has fallen by 42% in Scotland since 2008-09
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Quarterly Report: September 2026 published today: Property and violent crime has fallen by 42% since 2008-09. Results from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) show that one-in-five (20.8%) adults were estimated to have experienced at least one crime in 2024-25. This included property crime (9.4% of adults), violent crime (2.5%) and for the second time fraud and computer misuse (11.5%). The latest findings show that the overall level of property and violent crime combined and the likelihood of being a victim of … Continue reading Property and violent crime has fallen by 42% in Scotland since 2008-09
Scottish clear up rate for all recorded crimes was 56.7% in 2025-26, up from 56.0%, many times higher than in England*
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Quarterly Report: September 2026 published today: Increase in crime clear up rate. The clear up rate for all recorded crimes was 56.7% in 2025-26, up from 56.0% in 2024-25. Crimes against society (91.5%), non-sexual crimes of violence (68.5%) and sexual crimes (61.2%) continued to have higher clear up rates in 2025-26 than crimes of dishonesty (36.7%) and damage and reckless behaviour (32.5%). Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-quarterly-report-september-2026/pages/statistics-on-crime-in-general/ *The sharp differences between reported clear-up rates in Scotland and in England & Wales, above, point to differences in … Continue reading Scottish clear up rate for all recorded crimes was 56.7% in 2025-26, up from 56.0%, many times higher than in England*
Homicide in Scotland lowest since 1976 and among very lowest in the World
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Quarterly Report: September 2026 published today: Number of victims of homicide at the lowest level since 1976. There were 45 homicide victims recorded by the police in Scotland in 2024-25, a 21% decrease from 2023-24 and a 24% decrease from 2015-16. Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-quarterly-report-september-2026/pages/statistics-on-crime-in-general/ How does Scotland 45 homicides in 2024/2025 compare with other parts of the UK, Europe and beyond? Scotland recorded 45 homicide victims in 2024–25, the lowest figure since comparable records began in 1976. That is a 21% drop from 57 … Continue reading Homicide in Scotland lowest since 1976 and among very lowest in the World
Real experts do not predict waste piling up on streets but BBC Scotland rely on two ‘company men’ to scare you
BBC Scotland this morning, telling us that experts are predicting a waste crisis. ‘Experts?’ David Balmer ‘Landfill manager’ Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 They have one more – ‘Waste consultant Alasdair Meldrum, of Albion Environmental, says he has not seen such a looming crisis in almost 40 years of working in the industry.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlymw74g20ro These people have vested interests, are ‘company men’, and are not impartial nor are they ‘experts’ in the sense of being researchers in higher education. Does this BBC report accurately reflect recent impartial academic research on their suggestion of a … Continue reading Real experts do not predict waste piling up on streets but BBC Scotland rely on two ‘company men’ to scare you
How long do ‘Vietnamese’ trafficking gangs have to live and work in England until they become ‘English’ before 16 years later they spread into Scotland?
BBC Scotland today reporting ‘Vietnamese’ people trafficking gangs operating in Scotland, leaving viewers to think they came directly from and are managed from, say, Hanoi. Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Readers will know that County Lines gangs terrorising Scotland from Dumfries to Wick, arriving here as ‘heavies’ from Liverpool, Birmingham, Bradford or London are never referred to in Scottish media, as Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali, Irish, Jamaican or, heaven forfend, ‘English’ though the communities they come from are described as such in England. So, why is BBC Scotland so comfortable with ‘Vietnamese’ when refugees from … Continue reading How long do ‘Vietnamese’ trafficking gangs have to live and work in England until they become ‘English’ before 16 years later they spread into Scotland?
As BBC UK report a real breast cancer scandal, a reminder of how Lisa Summers made one up all by herself to unfairly demonise oncology staff in Dundee
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 This is a story on BBC Breakfast this morning based on a BMJ study, of: Twenty women had mastectomies unnecessarily while being treated for breast cancer at County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, it has emerged. In a briefing paper presented to the board, the trust stated that 32 women received excessive surgery when a wide local excision would have been appropriate. Of these, 20 had a mastectomy without clinical need, the trust confirmed. Delayed diagnosis of breast cancer was also identified in 20 women during a review of … Continue reading As BBC UK report a real breast cancer scandal, a reminder of how Lisa Summers made one up all by herself to unfairly demonise oncology staff in Dundee
As Maggie’s ‘broken children’, drug users from the teenage wasteland of the 1980s, fall off the graph, Scotland’s drug deaths will fall below those of England in ten years or less
Channel 4 News tonight reminded me of something important, positive, about Scotland’s drug deaths – age. Look at this – Age-specific mortality rates of drug use deaths by broad age group, registered in 2000 to 2025: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/drug-related-deaths-in-scotland-2025/ There were 21.4 drug use deaths per 100,000 people in 2025, after adjusting for age. However, when you have a think about the rate in each of the 5 age groups, you should be able to see signs of a tipping point coming when overal drug deaths plummet. This drama all started more than 40 years ago, in the years after Margaret Thatcher … Continue reading As Maggie’s ‘broken children’, drug users from the teenage wasteland of the 1980s, fall off the graph, Scotland’s drug deaths will fall below those of England in ten years or less
Buy Ardrossan harbour! Don’t buy Ardrossan harbour! The Herald pivots to be always against the Scottish Government
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Martin Williams in the Herald today: Ministers pushed ahead with the purchase and redevelopment of a major Scottish ferry port despite an internal warning that the costs posed an affordability risk to future budgets of its Transport Scotland agency. The warning was made by an internal Transport Scotland Assessment in February as the Scottish Government prepared to take place Ardrossan harbour into public ownership and press ahead with plans to turn it into the main mainland port for Arran. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26573121.ardrossan-ferry-port-166m-redevelopment-faces-affordability-warning/ When I saw this, I thought – ‘Have … Continue reading Buy Ardrossan harbour! Don’t buy Ardrossan harbour! The Herald pivots to be always against the Scottish Government
Nearly 90% (10 000) of those at risk of opioid overdose have been issued with the ‘world-first’ Scottish Government Naloxone reversal kit as drug deaths misinformation hits the headlines for and by the under-educated
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From STV today: Calls for more life-saving naloxone kits to reverse opioid overdoses amid contaminated drugs supply fears : https://news.stv.tv/north/calls-for-more-life-saving-naloxone-kits-to-reverse-opioid-overdoses-amid-contaminated-drugs-supply-fears Entirely missing from the STV report, including perversely, the limp Scottish Government response of ‘The Scottish Government says the number of naloxone kits distributed is increasing and that its widening access to treatment and residential rehabs.’ is the grpah above and this: At the end of 2025/26 Quarter 4, the ‘reach’ of the NNP (percentage of people at risk of opioid overdose who have been supplied with THN) was estimated … Continue reading Nearly 90% (10 000) of those at risk of opioid overdose have been issued with the ‘world-first’ Scottish Government Naloxone reversal kit as drug deaths misinformation hits the headlines for and by the under-educated
NHS Scotland’s gentler touch keeps ‘ghost patients’ safe from harm
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Guardian today: ‘Ghost patient’ policy wrongly removing at-risk people from GP lists, doctors say – An NHS policy to remove “ghost patients” from GP lists is inadvertently leaving some of the poorest people in England without vital healthcare, analysis has found. Under previous NHS rules, inactive patients at risk of being removed from their GP practice were given six months to respond to outreach. But under NHS England’s accelerated list validation timeline, introduced last October, patients now have only three months to reply. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/23/nhs-england-ghost-patient-policy-wrongly-removing-vulnerable-people What are the … Continue reading NHS Scotland’s gentler touch keeps ‘ghost patients’ safe from harm
