Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy From the Herald’s Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco today: Tech firm with NHS Scotland contracts to sell ICE-linked subsidiary – A French tech company with Scottish Government contracts will sell its US subsidiary after it emerged the firm had engaged in people-tracking operations for ICE. The Herald reported last week that Capgemini had provided IT services to a number of public entities in Scotland, including NHS Scotland, SAAS, and the Care Inspectorate.  On Sunday, following backlash from French politicians, the tech firm announced it would divest from its US subsidiary – which signed a deal worth up … Continue reading SNP-GOOOD? Decision to avoid US/Israel affiliated creepy Palantir for your health data further validated but Herald goes full obtuse on us

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

Professor John Robertson OBA In the P&J but not in the MSM and certainly not on BBC Scotland North-East, today: Detective Sergeant Peter Sloan of Merseyside Police’s Project Medusa added: “No area or community is immune to county lines drug supply, which is why intelligence‑led operations like this are essential to disrupt involved in the distribution of harmful drugs. “Today’s action, delivered alongside Police Scotland, resulted in three arrests and the seizure of significant quantities of illegal drugs. “This sends a clear message to those intent on exploiting vulnerable people and transporting drugs.” https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6923496/three-arrested-joint-county-lines-operation-peterhead-merseyside/ What does the Liverpool detective mean when … Continue reading ‘No area or community is immune to countty lines drug supply’ from England to ‘Small town Scotland’

Professor John Robertson OBA That’s an Inverness-based police inspector telling us on BBC Highland Cops in S3, E4, that the drugs will be ‘brought to Inverness by organised crime groups who originate predominantly in England, whether it be London, Newcastle, Birmingham, any big city. He missed out Liverpool which featured in Series 1 and 2. No one has ever, ever, in now at least six years since these gangs moved in, said anything like that on BBC Reporting Scotland or Good Mourning Scotland. These local, not BBC, producers of the series and the local cops are political naives. They don’t … Continue reading Why can only BBC Highland Cops tell us straight that these drug gangs originate in England and are from London, Birmingham and Newcastle? Don’t they care about the reputation of the Union that we’re ‘better suffering together’ in?

The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser closing on Friday, primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS  From YouGov today, The most important issues facing the country, we can see, above, that 14% of Scots rate crime as one of the most important issues and over … Continue reading Every part of the UK fears crime more than Scots do and they have good reason to

As soon as the above self-portrait popped up I knew what this was all about. Macleod is a constant critic of the SNP and has accused them, in 2017, of having a ‘divisive lynch-mob’ among the membership Macleod shares Neil Oliver’s position on the clearances ie that much was voluntary and beneficial to the communities it affected. In a bitter blog review of the work of Dr James Hunter he questions a key point: “The forcible displacement of much of northern Scotland’s population”. The appropriate word should be ‘some’ rather than ‘much’, which makes a big difference. I’m no expert on … Continue reading Herald headlines rabid Unionist, Clearances apologist and second home owner with ‘crude’ research to undermine SNP policy to double his council tax