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What is Jackie Baillie’s beef with private healthcare in 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 By Liz S “Patients and campaigners have been raising concerns about Palantir’s creeping involvement with the NHS for years based on concerns about ethics, outsourcing, and privacy”.. Palantir a private company, not a UK one, an American one. But doesn’t the Labour Dame, also a Labour MSP, as in Jackie Baillie, just always love to tell us that patients in Scotland have to go private as they cannot get treatment on the NHS………..surely that is her promoting private healthcare and … Continue reading What is Jackie Baillie’s beef with private healthcare in Scotland?

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Mandelson case and Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’ but in 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 In the Guardian today: Palantir’s NHS contract opens the door to the Big Brother-style data-sharing that Reform UK would use for a version of US immigration raids, health bosses have been told. Palantir Technologies – the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp – won a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform in 2023. The UK government is urging health bodies to adopt FDP, which the health secretary, Wes Streeting, says will ensure the NHS is “brought … Continue reading Mandelson case and Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’ but in Scotland

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BBC Wales reveals Labour’s attack on devolution while BBC Scotland hides it from you to protect their Anas

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BBC Wales and BBC Scotland at 4pm 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 For any “normal rational being” then “Glen Sannox ferry needs £3.2m repairs after one year in service” , as an article, would not be their top story today on the BBC Scotland page , as there is a much bigger story that should overshadow it in significance. A story that is far more significant for the whole of Scotland and so that far bigger story should have remained as the … Continue reading BBC Wales reveals Labour’s attack on devolution while BBC Scotland hides it from you to protect their Anas

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As Scottish Cons campaign on drug deaths the FIVE years of success in turning them around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that

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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 Annie Wells and Russell Findlay Who?, outside a pharmacy in Possilpark to campaign for the next election on Scotland’s drug deaths, luckily for them, still the highest in Europe. Did no one tell them that negative campaigning doesn’t work that well? Here are the facts: The drug deaths trend in Scotland has been downward for these last five years, from 1 339 in 2020 to 1 017. A 24.2% fall, by a quarter in only 5 years after … Continue reading As Scottish Cons campaign on drug deaths the FIVE years of success in turning them around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that

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One-year moderate to significant in service repairs are common in new ships as we see with the Type 45 destroyers, the two aircraft carriers and the Astute class subs

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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 Scotland headlining another story that might, they hope, damage SNP prospects in May. Is that a big, shock, story in the public interest, or not? This is an AI product but checked to make sure the sources are reliable ones. How common is it that larger ships would require moderate repairs after the first year in service? Give examples for the UK since 2000? For larger commercial ships (such as bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, or cargo … Continue reading One-year moderate to significant in service repairs are common in new ships as we see with the Type 45 destroyers, the two aircraft carriers and the Astute class subs

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Largs and Fairlie SNP Presentation 23 March 2026 – Notes for those using personal mobile phones and tablets to see

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I hope this is not vanity but, just in case there’s a big crowd and you can’t see my PowerPoint presentation at the back, it’s all (apart from my talking which you will hear) here for you to scroll over. Largs and Fairlie SNP 23 March 2026 Welcome words and outline Who shapes the story? Background Where are we now – polls and biases in polls Survation* 20-25 February Constituency and Regional votes Giving *Survation historically report lower SNP vote shares due to sampling based on 2014 result. Yet to see data tables for this to check Q and A … Continue reading Largs and Fairlie SNP Presentation 23 March 2026 – Notes for those using personal mobile phones and tablets to see

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As they face a near extinction event in May, Scottish Labour desperately politicise the Glasgow fire tragedy

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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 So it seems that the fire in Glasgow is to be politicised. Both the BBC and certain client media of the Labour party are pandering to Labour MSP Paul Sweeney. Investigation on the fire ? Not needed apparently, as Paul Sweeney, ‘Fire expert’ , as well as being an MSP, is on hand to give his professional input into how and why that fire started. Apparently part of that input being a case of #SNPBAD. … Continue reading As they face a near extinction event in May, Scottish Labour desperately politicise the Glasgow fire tragedy

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Shock as proportionally 4 times as many children in England & Wales face domestic abuse compared to Scotland but UK Labour have no real plan to deal with that

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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 Guardian today: A proposed law to restrict paedophiles’ parental rights in England and Wales is too weak because it does not protect children of theirs born after their conviction, parliament will hear this week. Under the victims and courts bill, a parent convicted of serious sexual offences against any child and who is sentenced to four or more years in prison will lose parental responsibility but they could come out of jail and have other children who would not … Continue reading Shock as proportionally 4 times as many children in England & Wales face domestic abuse compared to Scotland but UK Labour have no real plan to deal with that

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Scotland’s job market no doubt ‘challenging but not ‘floundering’ as in ‘Britain’

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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 Guardian today: Britain’s job market ‘floundering’ as companies remain cautious about hiring. Data shows labour market is still in a fragile position due to economic uncertainty, with few signs of recovery There’s no mention of Scotland in the piece, leaving the thousands of Scottish readers to either think it must be just the same here or, maybe, look elsewhere for the facts. On hiring, there are signs of stabilization or modest improvements in permanent and temporary … Continue reading Scotland’s job market no doubt ‘challenging but not ‘floundering’ as in ‘Britain’

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Why is Amnesty International UK, in London, having a go at Scotland when there’s so much more support for human rights abuse right next door in Westminster?

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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 I used to be an Amnesty International activist in a small way, 20 years ago, writing to authoritarian governments on behalf of political prisoners until thoroughly pissed of by the chair’s support for Israel and on discovering that most of these political prisoners had utterly unacceptable and hypocritical views on women’s rights. Under a TuS post on Reform UK, long-time and much valued, commentator, ArtyHetty wrote: I have some recent emails from ‘Amnesty international UK’ in Lonodn, and … Continue reading Why is Amnesty International UK, in London, having a go at Scotland when there’s so much more support for human rights abuse right next door in Westminster?