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Reposted with no paywall – Why the ‘hospital deaths’ won’t result in criminal charges, why Scots don’t do DIY dentistry, why we don’t need nuclear energy for radiopharmaceuticals and why the Daily Record’s ‘Scotland’s mean streets’ is a dirty big lie

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Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy They will make as much as they can of this in the weeks between now and 7th May when the voters go to the polls to elect the next Scottish Government but as with the other attempts to undermine the reputation of the SNP in governance, nothing will come of it. I’ll eat my hat etc. Have there been any comparable investigations into potentially fatal hospital acquired infections leading to prosecutions and punishment, anywhere in the UK, ever? Yes, four. From an AI search … Continue reading Reposted with no paywall – Why the ‘hospital deaths’ won’t result in criminal charges, why Scots don’t do DIY dentistry, why we don’t need nuclear energy for radiopharmaceuticals and why the Daily Record’s ‘Scotland’s mean streets’ is a dirty big lie

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FOUR posts in one – ‘Old friends’ Sarwar and Mandelson, BBC teacher strike misinformation, Welsh Labour’s inferior quality baby bundle post code lottery and Labour campaigns to have trans women assaulted in male prisons

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Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy ‘It was great to catch up with my old friend‘ Epstein was jailed July 6th 2019, nearly SIX years before Sarwar tweeted the above! I know few think that Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, is genuine friend of Scotland but the extent of this elite inner circle member’s loyalty to people like Blair, Brown, Mandelson and other London-based figures is being hidden from voters in Scotland. Sarwar has not even bothered to delete the above cosy image – ‘old friend (!)’ confident that the … Continue reading FOUR posts in one – ‘Old friends’ Sarwar and Mandelson, BBC teacher strike misinformation, Welsh Labour’s inferior quality baby bundle post code lottery and Labour campaigns to have trans women assaulted in male prisons

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Scottish homes will probably not have to be abandoned: how climate crisis has reshaped RumpUK’s flood risk

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Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy In the Guardian today: ‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain There’s only one mention of Scotland: But it is not just the south-west facing ever more floods as the climate crisis bites. Environment Agency data estimates 6.3m properties in England are at risk of flooding, rising to 8m by 2050, with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland also hit hard. Wow, impressive research there…not. In the Guardian 14 October 2025, the above maps showing only two wee bits of Scotland … Continue reading Scottish homes will probably not have to be abandoned: how climate crisis has reshaped RumpUK’s flood risk

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Former Labour candidate in BBC Scotland’s attack on supposed ‘under-fire’ Scottish health boards today yet none are being investigated like the 16 English health trust maternity units which are in ‘special measures’ for high mortality, 4 investigated by the police

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Support Talking-up Scotland -In this election year in Scotland, the 90% pro-Union media and their sponsors in the opposition parties will do everything they can to undermine the pro-independence parties. Thought vastly outnumbered, we will do our very best to counter their lies and get you, every day, the true stories and the sources of evidence to prove them. Help us if you can at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-get-the-facts-for-you In the Daily Record, 2 July 2010: LABOUR has selected union official Matt McLaughlin as the party’s candidate to fight next year’s Scottish Parliament election. Mr McLaughlin was chosen as the party’s standard-bearer for … Continue reading Former Labour candidate in BBC Scotland’s attack on supposed ‘under-fire’ Scottish health boards today yet none are being investigated like the 16 English health trust maternity units which are in ‘special measures’ for high mortality, 4 investigated by the police

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The benefits for the NHS and for the wider economy of women retiring around 60 – peer-reviewed research evidence is unambiguous and the SNP knows what to do about it

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It’s been argued that women should be able to retire at 60 because by then they often have caring responsibilities for elderly vulnerable parents reducing demand on the NHS and for grandchildren, enabling parents to work and help the economy. Is there research evidence for these claims? The answer below is Grok AI-assisted ie more trustworthy than you’d get from a politician or a newspaper that supports them. There is: Caring for Elderly Parents and Potential Reduction in NHS DemandMultiple studies confirm that women in their 50s and 60s are disproportionately involved in unpaid care for older relatives, with peaks … Continue reading The benefits for the NHS and for the wider economy of women retiring around 60 – peer-reviewed research evidence is unambiguous and the SNP knows what to do about it

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‘It was Glasgow Labour Councillors on the Board who exerted pressure to get QEUH open without delay and without fully informing SNP/Scot Gov of full facts about concerns’

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That headline is quote from a Herald Facebook comments section.1 Another comment suggested – ‘Labour had more to gain from the opening of the hospital as they had 9 councillors sitting on the health board.’ There were several other comments suggesting similar views. Are these any less reliable than what we have heard from BBC or Herald reporters or from Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie insisting that the SNP Government is to blame for forcing the hospital to open too early? Why would the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board care when the hospital opened? It was entirely their … Continue reading ‘It was Glasgow Labour Councillors on the Board who exerted pressure to get QEUH open without delay and without fully informing SNP/Scot Gov of full facts about concerns’

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Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life and your family’s lives worse

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From the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday: Reform UK have announced plans for cuts to income tax in Scotland if they were to win the Scottish Parliament elections in May. They say they would start by realigning Scotland’s tax rates and bands with those in the rest of the UK and then cut all rates by 1 percentage point. They would aim to further cut rates so that by the end of the upcoming parliamentary term in 2031, rates would be 3 percentage points below those in the rest of the UK. Reform UK have costed the first two … Continue reading Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life and your family’s lives worse

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SNP policy HALVES alcohol-related hospital admission as 93% of abusers treated within three weeks

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From Alcohol related hospital statistics Scotland financial year 2024 to 2025 published today: Alcohol-related hospital admissions in Scotland, above, peaked in 2007/2008 at 43 038, after decades of Labour power in Scotland. After the first SNP government in 2007/2008, they began to fall then after 2018 when the SNP minimum unit-pricing policy was implemented, they began to fall even more steeply, to 27 126 last year. This, almost a halving of demand, is a major benefit for the NHS in Scotland, attributable to a policy developed by the SNP in government, these last 19 years. What other factor may have … Continue reading SNP policy HALVES alcohol-related hospital admission as 93% of abusers treated within three weeks

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Is it insensitive to want a hard border when ‘UK’ loses WHO status as being measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake?

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The above shocking news [Sun] is all over the media but none are telling us this: Only Scotland and Wales meet WHO target for measles protection From Childhood immunisation statistics Scotland Quarter ending 30 September 2025, yesterday: The first dose of Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine is offered between 12 and 13 months old and the second dose at 3 years 4 months old. 92.5% of children had the first dose of MMR vaccine by 24 months of age. This rose to 95.9% for children who had reached age 5. Uptake of the second dose of MMR vaccine by 5 years was 90.6%, rising … Continue reading Is it insensitive to want a hard border when ‘UK’ loses WHO status as being measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake?

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Yet another BBC report on the Stonehaven rail deaths fails to tell you that responsibility does not lie with the Scottish Government but in Westminster

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BBC Scotland today, has: Stonehaven train derailment inquiry told of ‘lives ripped apart’ – A fatal accident inquiry into a train derailment which killed three men in the north east of Scotland has been told lives were “ripped apart” in the crash. The Aberdeen to Glasgow train came off the rails at Carmont in Aberdeenshire on 12 August 2020 after it hit debris washed from a drain following heavy rain. Driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the crash. Network Rail was later fined £6.7m in court for a series of failings. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98pl47ylgno There’s … Continue reading Yet another BBC report on the Stonehaven rail deaths fails to tell you that responsibility does not lie with the Scottish Government but in Westminster