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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!

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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!

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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

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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

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Drug deaths falling sharply for 5 years and treatment beating 90% target for 4 years suggests that the ‘sorry state’ is of journalism in the Sunday Post

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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 Post has the above in direct contradiction of the facts of drug addiction in Scotland in recent years, ignoring what is ‘the’ news, the trends. First, drug deaths are falling in Scotland while surging elsewhere in the UK Even ignoring the above doubts, drug deaths are surging in England & Wales as they plummet in Scotland England and Wales: Scotland: Drug … Continue reading Drug deaths falling sharply for 5 years and treatment beating 90% target for 4 years suggests that the ‘sorry state’ is of journalism in the Sunday Post

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‘Total panic’: the effect of no-fault evictions on renters in England has not applied in Scotland since the SNP Government abolished them in 2016 and is not the only way in which life is better here

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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 In the Guardian yesterday, the above and: When Sarah Ladyman was made redundant from her job as a horticulturist earlier this year, her one-bedroom flat was her sanctuary. Then, her landlord attempted to raise her monthly rent from £775 to £900. She took her case to a rent tribunal – only to be served with a no-fault eviction notice. No-fault eviction notices – … Continue reading ‘Total panic’: the effect of no-fault evictions on renters in England has not applied in Scotland since the SNP Government abolished them in 2016 and is not the only way in which life is better here

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That abortion is already effectively decriminalised is part of a better, not yet good enough I know, wider situation for women in Scotland.

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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 In the Herald today, this claim: Grok disagrees, sort of: There has not been an abortion conviction in Scotland since the Abortion Act 1967 came into force on April 27, 1968. Under the Act, which applies to Scotland, abortions are legal up to 24 weeks (or later in cases of severe fetal abnormality or risk to the woman’s life) when approved by two … Continue reading That abortion is already effectively decriminalised is part of a better, not yet good enough I know, wider situation for women in Scotland.

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Not one of the 150 000 UK graduates with student loan debts of £100 000-plus is from Scotland

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With only 3 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 today: More than 150,000 UK graduates have student loan debts of £100,000-plus ‘Debt sentences’ rose by a third in six months, finds Royal London after FoI request to Student Loans Company. More than 150,000 people in the UK now have student loan debts of more than £100,000, with one borrower owing £298,000, data shows. The company that obtained the figures … Continue reading Not one of the 150 000 UK graduates with student loan debts of £100 000-plus is from Scotland

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Today’s BBC report on missing Scottish soldiers reminds – ‘It can be said with certainty that men born in Scotland did suffer disproportionately more deaths during the war’

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With only 3 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 today, has the above story but there is, in it, no mention of the important and controversial issue. in my headline. My headline comes from the conclusions to a thorough examination of the facts published in May 2019. I missed it at the time and, I suspect out media did too. Correct me if I’m wrong on that and anything else … Continue reading Today’s BBC report on missing Scottish soldiers reminds – ‘It can be said with certainty that men born in Scotland did suffer disproportionately more deaths during the war’

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Day 2 of anti-social blighting communities ‘across the UK’ (sic) and no clarification from ‘Scottish’ media

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With only 4 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 Breakfast, for the second day has images of violence, damage and scared citizens, happening on ‘Britain’s streets’ and ‘across the UK’. BBC Scotland staff are currently asking their pals to find them at least one ned. Apologies for repetition but here’s the news where you are: BBC UK is worrying about anti-social behaviour in England today. BBC Scotland have not followed their lead. Perhaps this … Continue reading Day 2 of anti-social blighting communities ‘across the UK’ (sic) and no clarification from ‘Scottish’ media

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A passenger pushed to his death, fishermen killed by crew who don’t speak English, car decks flooding, one ferry runs aground because the only man on the bridge pressed the wrong button, really old ferries, high prices, endless cancellations…it kind of makes you think maybe CalMac is the best in the world?

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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://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 Jersey last week, the above, and: Basic safety actions “fell by the wayside” before a fatal collision involving a ferry and fishing trawler, prosecutors have said. At Jersey’s Royal Court on Friday, crown advocate Matthew Maletroit said former Condor Ferries crew members Lewis Carr and Artur Sevash-Zade failed to make safety the “paramount consideration” before the Commodore Goodwill collided with L’Ecume … Continue reading A passenger pushed to his death, fishermen killed by crew who don’t speak English, car decks flooding, one ferry runs aground because the only man on the bridge pressed the wrong button, really old ferries, high prices, endless cancellations…it kind of makes you think maybe CalMac is the best in the world?

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As the Scotsman attempts to scare on prisons, what they’re not telling you because it’s a bit too optimistic for them

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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://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 What does the Scotsman not want you to know? The maximum capacity of Scotland’s prisons is 8 475. 166 spaces available still – tight but not a crisis. The UK Labour government is releasing prisoners at FIVE times the rate of the SNP government and including those serving more than twice as long as allowed by SNP government scheme According to BBC Breakfast 11 August 2025, the … Continue reading As the Scotsman attempts to scare on prisons, what they’re not telling you because it’s a bit too optimistic for them