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US State makes the case for Scotland’s nuclear-free renewables strategy unanswerable

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From the Tennessee Lookout, yesterday, a tragic account of one US states horrific experience of coal-fired power generation and an awareness that nuclear is not the answer to its needs: Tennessee’s terrible power choices – A return to coal and a boost of nuclear programs provoke skepticism There have been scary nuclear accidents both before and since Three Mile Island. The book “We Almost Lost Detroit” details the little-known story of the 1966 partial meltdown of America’s first commercial … Continue reading US State makes the case for Scotland’s nuclear-free renewables strategy unanswerable

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Sturgeon and Clinton – does being a woman any woman trump (sic) her war crimes, her murder and betrayal of the poor?

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON In the Herald, yesterday: Nicola Sturgeon has praised former US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton as a “class act” and said the world would have been better if she had defeated Donald Trump. Posting on social media after Ms Clinton’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee was made public, Ms Sturgeon paid a glowing tribute to her fellow politician. This topic has caused me much angst over the years. Throughout those years, in TuS, I have praised and defended Nicola Sturgeon, time and … Continue reading Sturgeon and Clinton – does being a woman any woman trump (sic) her war crimes, her murder and betrayal of the poor?

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UK unemployment to worsen from 40% higher than in Scotland but Scotland’s far lower unemployment level still a secret as election looms

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Guardian today, has: Unemployment set to hit 5.3% this year amid ‘worrying’ rise in young jobless. OBR raises forecast from 4.9% and downgrades UK’s growth prospects for 2026 – while also warning of war uncertainty There’s no mention of Scotland and ‘Scotland’s media is offering no such detail. Here’s why: The unemployment rate in Scotland at the end of 2025, was 3.7%, down from 3.8% in 2024.  In crude terms 5.1 is 1.4 greater than 3.7 but … Continue reading UK unemployment to worsen from 40% higher than in Scotland but Scotland’s far lower unemployment level still a secret as election looms

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Disappointment in BBC News as Scotland not even half way to being ‘rape capital’ of the UK

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON BBC Reporting Scotland flying solo again to hit you with a dose of early morning anxiety, headlining with a story mysteriously and entirely absent, from their website: Why would they pull this one out for the early morning short reports where they feel they have an excuse having no context, as below? See this: Would a bit of context have been useful for readers? This kind of thing? On 25 June 2025, I wrote: The media in Scotland are … Continue reading Disappointment in BBC News as Scotland not even half way to being ‘rape capital’ of the UK

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BBC Scotland take 42 days to find a sentence to use in responding to complaint about coverage of alleged hospital deaths but carefully do not mention the very next one – ‘it is our view that, even without the infection, their survival would still have been uncertain’

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON No tasteless, exploitative and titillating images of dead children required here. On January 19th 2026, I sent this complaint to the BBC regarding their coverage of the QEUH water supply infections: 10 days later, they apologised for the delay in responding. In my experience, they never meet their 10 day target, suggesting they’re under pressure from unhappy viewers in greater numbers than before. 28 days later, this: We are writing to apologise that we’ve not been able to … Continue reading BBC Scotland take 42 days to find a sentence to use in responding to complaint about coverage of alleged hospital deaths but carefully do not mention the very next one – ‘it is our view that, even without the infection, their survival would still have been uncertain’

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Everything is then to be considered as British and so ready to be privatised……..

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON By Liz S The media report that “US tech giant Palantir has wrapped its tentacles around the British state, securing major contracts with the Ministry of Defence and the NHS”. But  the US data analytics firm Palantir is not operating within NHS Scotland……….as in reference to the NHS and the “British State”. So even information online states that “NHS England is a separate entity from NHS Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland” and also “The Palantir deal, which has faced significant backlash from privacy campaigners and doctors’ groups, is specific to NHS … Continue reading Everything is then to be considered as British and so ready to be privatised……..

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Daily Record’s ‘Horror street drug ‘pyro’ sweeping Scotland as addicts found dead in the street’ is being produced by a county lines gang from a city in England setting up labs here but you don’t need to hear that UK-bad story it seems

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON That’s the Record‘s headline yesterday and: Scotland’s homeless community has told of the horror of contaminated street drugs – after 81 people died in three months after taking synthetic opioid “pyro”. Nitazenes, produced in illegal labs and used as cutting agents in heroin and benzos, are now implicated in an eighth of all suspected drug deaths, data shows. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/horror-deadly-synthetic-drugs-scots-36797256 Where are these illegal labs? In the Independent last September: Police have uncovered the first drug lab for nitazenes in the UK, … Continue reading Daily Record’s ‘Horror street drug ‘pyro’ sweeping Scotland as addicts found dead in the street’ is being produced by a county lines gang from a city in England setting up labs here but you don’t need to hear that UK-bad story it seems

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How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building target that Labour just gave up on in England?

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON As the Herald, today, frontpages the Scottish Conservatives, soon to face a near-extinction event and become only the 5th party in Scotland, to ‘blast’ the SNP Government and suggest once more an affordable homes crisis, there’s no space, it seems for these: For 2025, the SNP Government has funded 5 313 new affordable home starts to a level down from a peak of 11 158 in 2021 but above the level before 2014 and still almost twice that … Continue reading How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building target that Labour just gave up on in England?

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As it falls in NHS Scotland, BBC England evidence for corridor care surges in North of England is based correctly on our method and not that used by the Herald and repeated lazily by BBC Scotland

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC England today, the above and: More than 52,000 patients waited longer than 24 hours to be admitted to hospitals across north-west England last year, a BBC investigation has revealed. Known as “corridor care”, patients are lining up on trolleys or sitting on chairs, stuck in A&E because there are no beds for them in the wards. The Royal College of Nursing has described the situation as a “national emergency” and called on the government to end … Continue reading As it falls in NHS Scotland, BBC England evidence for corridor care surges in North of England is based correctly on our method and not that used by the Herald and repeated lazily by BBC Scotland

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Scottish taxpayers soon to pay first £100 million instalment to keep an old English steelworks in business and another £100m to save an old English oil refinery so that it can replace a Scottish oil refinery to refine oil almost entirely from Scottish waters

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Thanks to Dottie once more for alerting me to this. As the implementation for the Scottish Budget in 2026/2027 looms, we can reflect on a few hundred million that we don’t have because it’s being used to subsidise our de-industrialisation. In the Guardian, in 2025, the above, and: Ministers have lined up special managers to run Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations if they are put into administration, according to a revelation at the high court in London. The development shows that the government … Continue reading Scottish taxpayers soon to pay first £100 million instalment to keep an old English steelworks in business and another £100m to save an old English oil refinery so that it can replace a Scottish oil refinery to refine oil almost entirely from Scottish waters