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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

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Inverness is already ‘terrorised’ by UK Government drug enforcement failures – 309 young men with nothing to do all day is just asking for it

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Professor John Robertson OBA In yesterday’s Sunday Mail, former Sun ‘Environment journalist‘ Dan Vevers makes a determined effort to have the County Lines drug gang business model adopted by at least one Scottish city, to share the blame for the current plague in Inverness, with: Now a leading officer has warned that teens as young as 16 are being sent north from cities like Glasgow, Liverpool and London by drug gangs to claim turf and terrorise locals. I’ve been monitoring media reports of county lines-style behaviour by individuals arrested in Scottish towns and everyone has been English. The above claim is a first. … Continue reading Inverness is already ‘terrorised’ by UK Government drug enforcement failures – 309 young men with nothing to do all day is just asking for it

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Now a second research report casts doubt on actual level of drug deaths in England but still they surge toward Scotland’s steadily falling level

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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 Summary: FIRST, in September 2025, King’s College Researchers found that opioid deaths in England & Wales were 50% higher than recorded by the ONS. SECOND, two years earlier UK Government researchers found massive (25%) undercounting of drugs deaths in England & Wales. THIRD, though Scotland’s drug death rate may still be higher despite these, the rate is falling fast to meet … Continue reading Now a second research report casts doubt on actual level of drug deaths in England but still they surge toward Scotland’s steadily falling level

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BBC Scotland’s Picken lies about early prisoner release plans and fails to tell you the whole story because it’s a bit to optimistic for you to hear of

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Scotland’s Andrew Picken, yesterday: The number of people in Scotland’s prisons has risen back above the level which sparked the early release of hundreds of inmates to free up space. More than 300 inmates, half of whom were serving sentences for violent crimes, were freed in February and March after prison bosses warned they couldn’t take any more arrivals. In the week before the process of releasing those inmates … Continue reading BBC Scotland’s Picken lies about early prisoner release plans and fails to tell you the whole story because it’s a bit to optimistic for you to hear of

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Flood of ‘British’ austerity refugees into Scotland in the SNP era THREE TIMES the current flow of asylum seekers from war zones and may even surpass the level of Irish famine refugee migration in 1845/1851

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA June 2023 Snapshot: As of June 2023, 4,660 individuals [asylum seekers] were receiving Section 95 support, 109 were on Section 98 support, and 554 were on Section 4 support in Scotland. https://www.gov.scot/publications/extending-right-work-asylum-seekers-scotland-evaluation-analysis-policy-options/pages/4/ 4-5 000 a year – is that large number of refugees? From The Irish Famine in a Scottish Perspective 1845-1851 by Géraldine VAUGHAN, in 2015, it is estimated that there were roughly 115,000 Irish incomers to Scotland for those six years.1 … Continue reading Flood of ‘British’ austerity refugees into Scotland in the SNP era THREE TIMES the current flow of asylum seekers from war zones and may even surpass the level of Irish famine refugee migration in 1845/1851

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This is a crisis made in London and dumped on Scotland as ‘thousands’ of asylum seekers expected to flee Labour’s new hostile environment to Scotland where they have a legal right to be housed that does not exist in England

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Record today, the Glasgow City Leader worries that Labour’s asylum hotels crackdown will lead to even greater numbers fleeing north to overload her city’s resources: A crackdown on hotel stays for asylum seekers will be “disastrous” for Scotland as thousands try to get homes here, a council leader warned. As part of a tougher regime for migrants the Home Office has halved the amount of time they can remain in … Continue reading This is a crisis made in London and dumped on Scotland as ‘thousands’ of asylum seekers expected to flee Labour’s new hostile environment to Scotland where they have a legal right to be housed that does not exist in England

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Retiring charity head implies revolutionary Child Payment and SNP’s commitment to reverse two-child limit is just ‘doing the same things day after day’ as she continues to campaign for Labour and aims for an honour like Pam Duncan Glancy

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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 – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Today, under shamefully exploitative imagery of sad children, the Herald has: A “new honesty” is needed to transform the lives and futures of Scotland’s poorest children, according to a leading charity. SallyAnn Kelly, chief executive of Aberlour Children’s Charity, has called for a greater culture of cooperation across public, private and third sectors in Scotland to improve the lives and life chances of children growing up in poverty. and: You see … Continue reading Retiring charity head implies revolutionary Child Payment and SNP’s commitment to reverse two-child limit is just ‘doing the same things day after day’ as she continues to campaign for Labour and aims for an honour like Pam Duncan Glancy