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If England has ‘more than TWO MILLION homes at risk of flooding’ how many will Scotland have?

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In the Guardian today: More than two million people in England are unaware their properties are at risk of flooding, as the UK braces for a wet and stormy start to the winter, according to the Environment Agency. Experts say the next three months are more likely than usual to be wet and windy – due to a combination of large-scale weather patterns and the “subtle” impact of a supercharged El Niño – increasing the risk of flooding. However, the EA warned on Wednesday that people in a third of the six million properties most at risk of flooding are … Continue reading If England has ‘more than TWO MILLION homes at risk of flooding’ how many will Scotland have?

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Deaths in England attributed to nitazenes have nearly quadrupled since 2023.

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By stewartb Once again, the way BBC Scotland reports on issues of importance and serious concern smacks of a preference to gaslight voters in Scotland – and in the process undermine the government in Edinburgh – rather than ‘educate’/inform by providing context, perspective and relevant comparative analysis. Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 In its response to the latest drug deaths in England and Wales based on ONS reporting, the Scottish Drugs Forum (October 2025) stated: ‘The latest report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that drug-related deaths in England and Wales … Continue reading Deaths in England attributed to nitazenes have nearly quadrupled since 2023.

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Your Right to Decide – BBC Scotland defends Burnham’s retrenched position fully against a referendum

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep goin Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Scottish Government today: FM writes to PM on Scotland’s right to decide has had limited coverage. STV did a fair job in https://news.stv.tv/politics/john-swinney-writes-to-prime-minister-andy-burnham-in-bid-to-legally-launch-independence-vote reproducing Swinney’s letter in full with only a wee tail-ender from the Scottish Cons, more concerned to attack Butnham than Swinney. The letter: Dear Andy I am writing with regards to your comments at Prime Ministers Question’s in response to my colleague Chris Law MP’s question. Earlier today, you said; “on that question of a border poll, it is to … Continue reading Your Right to Decide – BBC Scotland defends Burnham’s retrenched position fully against a referendum

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YouGov’s naked bias still using the thousands who have passed since the 2014 to make you think No could still win

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 There’s a pattern there, above. YouGov don’t seem to find any Yes leads and a massive 10% No lead, in the most recent polling. I’ll come back to Ipsos. Take these out and we’ve have some of the kind of settled will evidence the new PM seems to need. It’s not just the last three YouGov polls, going back years they almost never get a Yes lead. YouGov is of course, Tory-owned. So how might they be doing this. Have a look at the … Continue reading YouGov’s naked bias still using the thousands who have passed since the 2014 to make you think No could still win

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Bus fares £2 cap – SNP acts in your interests, ‘ah but’….’some’…….

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S BBC website top story on their Scotland page this morning 7 September 2026: “Swinney’s £2 cap on bus fares kicks in – but some call it ‘half a solution’”. So yet again the same old BBC. So whenever the Scottish government intend to do something to try to help people, then instead of the BBC just writing a positive piece upon this, well what do we get instead ? We get the BBC including the now all too familiar addition of the words … Continue reading Bus fares £2 cap – SNP acts in your interests, ‘ah but’….’some’…….

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How the Labour/Lib Dem coalition in 2002 hid the facts from the Scottish Parliament in a sham consultation to make sure the new South Glasgow Hospital was built on a filthy site no other city in world would think suitable for its people

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By stewartb With apologies for the length of what follows. It’s hard to do justice to such a topic – to offer an authoritative account – without quoting extensively from the Scottish Parliament’s record of debate from c.25 years ago. I and others on TuS discussing the siting of a new ‘South Glasgow Hospital’ have referred to a debate in the Scottish Parliament on 17 January 2001, noting the cross-party concerns about proposed location.  Nearly two years later, these concerns about location of the … Continue reading How the Labour/Lib Dem coalition in 2002 hid the facts from the Scottish Parliament in a sham consultation to make sure the new South Glasgow Hospital was built on a filthy site no other city in world would think suitable for its people

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The misogynistic exclusion of Monica Lennon – a debate between the two cheeks of Jackie Baillie’s arse

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Anonymous I am stepping aside a little from the main thrust of this series of postings about the decision to locate what is now the QEUH on the former Southern General Hospital site, which is juxtaposed to the large Shieldhall sewage works. What struck me reading the transcript of the debate was that the Scottish Parliament was conducting itself in the deliberative non-partisan way which was intended, when the electoral system was established and designed to make it difficult for any single party … Continue reading The misogynistic exclusion of Monica Lennon – a debate between the two cheeks of Jackie Baillie’s arse

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As Iran successfully hacks a ‘small’ gas-fired power station how do Scottish Labour propose to protect their multiple small modular nuclear reactors

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Guardian today: Hundreds of Britain’s smallest power plants could remain at a higher risk to state-sponsored cyber-attacks until the 2030s despite a successful Iran-linked hack last month, it has emerged. Officials this week briefed energy bosses on the breach, which is understood to have shut an unnamed small gas power plant for four days last month, and put the industry on alert over the growing cyber threat facing energy infrastructure. However, the government’s own plan to toughen the baseline cybersecurity standards for … Continue reading As Iran successfully hacks a ‘small’ gas-fired power station how do Scottish Labour propose to protect their multiple small modular nuclear reactors

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Protecting politicians – do the Widdecombe lessons not apply to Nicola Sturgeon too?

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By Liz S In Talking-up Scotland yesterday? BBC Scotland today, surprisingly, given the Widdicombe murder obsession of all the press… However on the BBC website headline today is this: “Investigation into Widdecombe’s death rekindles debate over how to protect politicians” Also today on the BBC website is this headline: “Sturgeon’s police statement on SNP finances won’t be released, says lawyer” This is a long article that also includes “How the Peter Murrell case unfolded” which includes a timeline and a breakdown of yet another regurgitated BBC report on this past case , that as a criminal case has now been concluded , as the … Continue reading Protecting politicians – do the Widdecombe lessons not apply to Nicola Sturgeon too?

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The Wretched of Scotland’s Independence Movements

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While AI has often been taught to favour broadly establishment positions, reinforced by their dominance of the media landscape it relies upon, I have found that, if you keep your wits about you and counter those positions with evidence you have, it will often come to offer a more independent evidence-based answer than you will get from even the most respected but all-too-human academic, like me. Based on the evidence from the time such as the lack of a formal act of union, the unbroken, largely unchanged continuation of the parliament in London and the end of such in Scotland … Continue reading The Wretched of Scotland’s Independence Movements