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£80 million in illegal drugs trafficked into Scotland from English cities or grown here by Albanians but ssshhhh!!!! pretend it was us, our daft wee selves
Albanians in Fife Scousers all over the North of Scotland Last post of 2025 and it looks a bit of a downer but not if you now decide to double your efforts for a border – Best wishes for the …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/31/80-million-in-illegal-drugs-trafficked-into-scotland-from-english-cities-or-grown-here-by-albanians-but-ssshhhh-pretend-it-was-us-our-daft-wee-selves/
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Did you know that ‘For Women Scotland’ are now far more angry with Sarwar’s boss and with Labour than with the SNP, as we approach Holyrood 2026 election?
On 16 April 2025, the Herald was delighted to report: The First Minister is facing increasing pressure from opposition parties and women’s groups to update guidance for public bodies followin…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/31/did-you-know-that-for-women-scotland-are-now-far-more-angry-with-sarwars-boss-and-with-labour-than-with-the-snp-as-we-approach-holyrood-2026-election/
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BBC Scotland conceals disability charity chief’s comment in letter rejecting MBE that ‘Scotland is doing better than UK’ – Here’s why it matters so much -suicide prevention – and why it CAN be afford...
Professor John Robertson OBA The Guardian today has: Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities – Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, …
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Why have NHS England A&E departments had to deal with 1 million sore throats but there are no comparable reports in Scotland? Scottish GPs have nearly 600 fewer patients to care for
Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Breakfast this morning: Accident and emergency departments in England have dealt with more than 4 000 cases of hiccups in the past five years and well over a millio…
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Absolutely no frightening surge in ketamine cases in Scotland unless you don’t understand percentages
Professor John Robertson OBA The Guardian today has the above chart and: ‘Absolutely frightening’: surge in ketamine cases hits UK urology wards – Young adults and teenagers prevalent i…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/30/absolutely-no-frightening-surge-in-ketamine-cases-in-scotland-unless-you-dont-understand-percentages/
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Absolutely no frightening surge in ketamine cases in Scotland unless you don’t understand percentages
Professor John Robertson OBA The Guardian today has the above chart and: ‘Absolutely frightening’: surge in ketamine cases hits UK urology wards – Young adults and teenagers prevalent i…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/30/absolutely-no-frightening-surge-in-ketamine-cases-in-scotland-unless-you-dont-understand-percentages/
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The Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Levy means Scots will pay ‘nuclear tax’ for nuclear energy consumed in England
BBC 2009 Professor John Robertson OBA You’ll have seen headlines like – ‘SNP has slammed Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar for his silence on Westminster’s “nuclear tax”, which c…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/30/the-nuclear-regulated-asset-base-levy-means-scots-will-pay-nuclear-tax-for-nuclear-energy-consumed-in-england/
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Ultra-processed foods: time to put health before profit
The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is damaging public health, fuelling chronic diseases worldwide, and deepening health inequalities. Addressing this challenge requires a unified ...
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He changed this three years ago but it's worth remembering when he next talks of an NHS crisis in Scotland despite it being in far better health than NHS England or Wales
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As UK Labour begin to claim falling knife crime in England & Wales, why their headlines and their figures are less reliable than those in Scotland which are – ‘being on firmer ground in terms of offic...
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Mirror today, a deceitful headline suggesting a wider reduction in knife crime when the figures only relate to robberies where a knife was present. While applaud…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/30/as-uk-labour-begin-to-claim-falling-knife-crime-in-england-wales-why-their-headlines-and-their-figures-are-less-reliable-than-those-in-scotland-which-are-being-on-firmer-ground-in-terms-of/
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Reposted as Anas Sarwar claims he will ‘address the housing emergency’
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As Anas Sarwar promises to address the housing emergency UK Labour have just given up on that and he'll do what he's told:
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Affordable housing – a tale of two leaked memos that reveals SNP exceeding target and Scottish Labour giving up
Professor John Robertson OBA The Daily Mail in April 2025 had the above headline and: Today, inews has: The Daily Mail did not, of course, have the facts. Here they are: For 2025, the SNP Governmen…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/16/affordable-housing-a-tale-of-two-leaked-memos-that-reveals-snp-exceeding-target-and-scottish-labour-giving-up/
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22 years later the Herald has changed its tune on whether firefighters ‘deserve to have their cake and eat it too’ because it’s an SNP cake now
Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald, once again yesterday, embracing one of the very same trade unions which their corporate-owners insisted that they regularly demonise and mis-repre…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/29/22-years-later-the-herald-has-changed-its-tune-on-whether-firefighters-deserve-to-have-their-cake-and-eat-it-too-because-its-an-snp-cake-now/
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HS2 despite chopping link to Scotland to take 2 to 3 times as long as Japanese and French equivalents – Con and Labour governments not to be blamed as it’s not a Scottish ferry is it?
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this. From BBC England today: HS2 has confirmed that its aim to get trains running between Birmingham and London between 2029 and 20…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/29/hs2-despite-chopping-link-to-scotland-to-take-2-to-3-times-as-long-as-japanese-and-french-equivalents-con-and-labour-governments-not-to-be-blamed-as-its-not-a-scottish-ferry-is-it/
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The Final Word on Labour’s Flawed and Dangerous Nuclear Energy Plans
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The Final Word on Labour’s Flawed and Dangerous Nuclear Energy Plans
Professor John Robertson OBA Readers will have seen the dominant mainstream media messaging on behalf of Labour such as the Daily Mail’s ‘Sarwar calls on Swinney to drop ‘ideological’ o…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/20/the-final-word-on-labours-flawed-and-dangerous-nuclear-energy-plans/
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Reposted as Scotsman campaigns for Scottish Labour's callous nuclear policy:
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‘Huge pools of mystery sludge, leaking silos’ and shocking complacency only a few miles from Stranraer and the highest cancer level in Europe – Does Scottish Labour need a ‘cancer panic’ to wake it up...
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Daily Mail today: Atomic bomb waste discovered beneath six homes in St Louis has sparked panic and renewed concern in other US cities still haunte…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/23/huge-pools-of-mystery-sludge-leaking-silos-and-shocking-complacency-only-a-few-miles-from-stranraer-and-the-highest-cancer-level-in-europe-does-scottish-labour-need-a-cancer-panic-to-wake-i/
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Once more the three UK nations abusing, per head, twice to three times as many women and four times as many children are not informed of it but Scotland with the lowest levels is lied to with inflated...
Professor John Robertson OBA Not for the first time, BBC Scotland find another way to suggest that violent crime is a particular problem and to distract from the published, peer-reviewed facts that…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/29/once-more-the-three-uk-nations-abusing-per-head-twice-to-three-times-as-many-women-and-four-times-as-many-children-are-not-informed-of-it-but-scotland-with-the-lowest-levels-is-lied-to-with-inflated/
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‘Second class citizens, Jamie?’ Islanders have actually been treated far better than the rest of us by this government
Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald at the weekend had two stories on a supposedly high number of sailings cancelled by ‘technical faults.’1, 2 They claimed that ‘more than 16…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/29/second-class-citizens-jamie-islanders-have-actually-been-treated-far-better-than-the-rest-of-us-by-this-government/
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Never mind the media trivia scramble for a few police officers leaving or failing a training course, here’s what matters to you – 25% more officers in Scotland yet violent crime almost three times as ...
Professor John Robertson OBA The Daily Record, the Herald and the Scotsman are now fully dedicated to platforming Scottish Labour’s stash of manipulated Freedom of Information data on any asp…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/28/never-mind-the-media-trivia-scramble-for-a-few-police-officers-leaving-or-failing-a-training-course-heres-what-matters-to-you-25-more-officers-in-scotland-yet-violent-crime-almost-three-times-as/
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Confused Sunday Mail misses how Scotland’s massive energy over-production could make billions after independence easily feeding and watering the ‘gobbling’ AI data centres
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Sunday Mail yesterday the above back-to-front headline and: Massive new data centres planned in Scotland to power the AI revolution would use up to three quart…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/28/confused-sunday-mail-misses-how-scotlands-massive-energy-over-production-could-make-billions-after-independence-easily-feeding-and-watering-the-gobbling-ai-data-centres/
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Waspi Women (Punk Version)
Punk version approved by at least one Waspi woman leader after seeing Riot Women:
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Serious mortuary incidents such as cremating wrong body almost non-existent in Scotland but more common in NHS England
Professor John Robertson OBA Still in the headlines for BBC Scotland: Scotland’s largest hospital has apologised after a bereaved family was given the wrong body for a cremation ceremony. Mor…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/28/serious-mortuary-incidents-such-as-cremating-wrong-body-almost-non-existent-in-scotland-but-more-common-in-nhs-england/
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Cost of rail nationalisation in Scotland – Herald’s uncritical reliance on notorious Taxpayers Alliance’s known biases is very poor quality journalism
Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald’s Martin Williams today has – ScotRail costs double under nationalisation as services fall – based entirely on a report by the TaxpayerR…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/28/cost-of-rail-nationalisation-in-scotland-heralds-uncritical-reliance-on-notorious-taxpayers-alliances-known-biases-is-very-poor-quality-journalism/
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More than 300 years of London’s economic management of Scotland yet still the most impoverished and most ‘milked’ part of the UK
Professor John Robertson OBA Scotland, above, the most impoverished part of the UK, and yet:
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A song inspired by the East Kilbride engineers who kept half of General Pinochet’s bombers on the ground and save many lives in Chile.
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From the city of Saint Bride to the streets of Saint James we denied Maggie Thatcher
John Robertson A song inspired by the East Kilbride engineers who kept half of General Pinochet’s bombers on the ground and save many lives in Chile. Three AI-assisted versions, click on: Lyr…
https://singingscotlandsfutureandpast.com/2025/12/14/from-the-city-of-saint-bride-to-the-streets-of-saint-james-we-denied-maggie-thatcher/
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BBC Scotland considers that voters in Scotland don’t need to know of Labour’s actual track record in government in Cardiff and Westminster
stewartb You may have noticed this rare occurrence: a positively-framed headline about NHS Scotland was published (December 23) on the Scotland page of the BBC News website: ‘A&E waiting t…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/27/bbc-scotland-considers-that-voters-in-scotland-dont-need-to-know-of-labours-actual-track-record-in-government-in-cardiff-and-westminster/
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Westminster blasted over 139 years of delays to projects, TWICE that of SNP Government
Professor John Robertson OBA Based entirely on a tragic feed from Scottish Labour as they fall to fourth in the latest opinion poll for the May election, the Record and the Scotsman have a headline…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/27/westminster-blasted-over-139-years-of-delays-to-projects-twice-that-of-snp-government/
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Foreign medics NOT shunning NHS Scotland because of anti-migrant rhetoric from London parties
Professor John Robertson OBA The Guardian above has another of its ‘UK’ pieces with not a word on Scotland in it. There is, of course, no peer-reviewed research on this topic but, the M…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/27/foreign-medics-not-shunning-nhs-scotland-because-of-anti-migrant-rhetoric-from-london-parties/
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Flu cases decline steeply in Scotland more than two weeks ahead of England after Swinney had launched vaccine programme more than two weeks earlier
STV Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Scotland on 24 December 2025: The number of laboratory-confirmed flu cases in Scotland has dropped by more than a third, new figures show. Public Health Sc…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/27/flu-cases-decline-steeply-in-scotland-more-than-two-weeks-ahead-of-england-after-swinney-had-launched-vaccine-programme-more-than-two-weeks-earlier/
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30% fare hikes in only two years, declining service performance, a ballooning budget, and a history of deploying unreliable vessels as Canadian government underfunds its ferry service by 10 times that...
The 60 year-old still serving large ferry MV Queen of New Westminster (1964), nearly 20 years older than the oldest Calmac large ferry, the MV Isle of Arran (1983) Professor John Robertson OBA In t…
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Reposted as opposition parties post lies - SNP Government initiatives leading to plummeting waiting lists with overall list now 5% shorter than NHS England
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SNP Government initiatives leading to plummeting waiting lists with overall list now 5% shorter than NHS England
Professor John Robertson OBA From NHS waiting times – stage of treatment published yesterday, the above impressive signs of progress. with increasing numbers treated yet plummeting longer wai…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/26/snp-government-initiatives-leading-to-plummeting-waiting-lists-with-overall-list-now-5-shorter-than-nhs-england/
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Reposted as the Herald tries to magnify a serious problem with selective statistics - Reported rape and attempted rape is a staggering twice as common in England & Wales than it is in Scotland
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Rape!!! Glasgow Herald works only to scare women with irresponsible, uninformative reporting – Reported rape and attempted rape is a staggering twice as common in England & Wales than it is in Scotlan...
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald, this morning, the above. Two things. One, can it be called just ‘rape’, at this stage unless of course your aim is only to shock as opposed t…
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Unmasking the Manipulation of Scotland’s 2014 Referendum
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Leading US academic confirms 100% higher risk for those living 2km from nuclear plants, greater risk for the elderly and debunks Scottish Labour claims for ‘latest technology’
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor John Robertson OBA From Maine Public, two days ago: A new study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that living near a nuclear…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/26/leading-us-academic-confirms-100-higher-risk-for-those-living-2km-from-nuclear-plants-greater-risk-for-the-elderly-and-debunks-scottish-labour-claims-for-latest-technology/
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‘No area or community is immune to countty lines drug supply’ from England to ‘Small town Scotland’
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 a…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/26/no-area-or-community-is-immune-to-countty-lines-drug-supply-from-england-to-small-town-scotland/
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Winter is here and Welsh Labour is not prepared, as TWICE as many wait more than 12 hours in A&E than in Scotland
stewartb “Winter is here and the SNP is not prepared. Waiting times are too long, corridor care is too common, and it will only get worse as winter continues. It is time for a new direction.” These…
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Nearly THREE times as many emergency patients per capita wait 12 hours or more in NHS England than in NHS Scotland
By stewartb Campaign against austerity needed to push Westminster to support the NHS in England, NI and Wales even to match the A&E waiting times performance in Scotland – for the sake of…
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As media this morning fawn over King Charles a reminder:
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Arrest and seizures from a joint operation between Merseyside Police’s Project Medusa and Police Scotland into county lines gang operating in Scotland but it’s a secret in Scotland
Professor John Robertson OBA From Merseyside Police yesterday: Three people have been arrested today, Tuesday 23 December, following two warrants executed to tackle suspected county lines drug supp…
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UK Labour’s new ‘loose, spineless’ post-Grenfell laws reject Scotland’s twenty-years-old 100% safety measures and will not prevent towering infernos but only give your gran 15 minutes to get out
Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC UK this morning: Government plans to turn post-Grenfell fire safety guidance into law have been strongly criticised by a leading voice in the construction indu…
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Why is one trans tribunal in Scotland 55 to 4 times more times newsworthy than another in England?
No images of her here. I’m sure we all know what she looks like. Professor John Robertson OBA This is not about the substance of these trans tribunals at all but about the different level of …
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Manchester to Leeds more than TWICE Glasgow to Edinburgh at any time and overall cheapest rail fares in UK but BBC Scotland headline an advertising error
Professor John Robertson OBA At lease some of the staff at Pacific Quay must be thinking, red-faced, this morning – ‘Is this all we’ve got for the top story?’ ScotRail has b…
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As unfairly subsidised Polish yard reaches milestone on 7 ferries GMB should be reminded to stop supporting Labour if they want to keep jobs in Scotland
Professor John Robertson OBA Today we read: THE project to build seven new loch class ferries for the west of Scotland has reached another construction milestone. The first vessel has had its keel …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/23/as-unfairly-subsidised-polish-yard-reaches-milestone-on-7-ferries-gmb-should-be-reminded-to-stop-supporting-labour-if-they-want-to-keep-jobs-in-scotland/
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Isle of Wight Tory MP calls again for ferry pricing regulation introduced by SNP in 2008 to transform Scottish island economies and then be forgotten by the ungrateful among them
Professor John Robertson OBA Four days ago, Joe Robertson, Tory MP for the Isle of Wight has called again for measures to end the ‘ferry rip-off punishing coastal Britain’ [sic].1 We’ve…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/23/isle-of-wight-tory-mp-calls-again-for-ferry-pricing-regulation-introduced-by-snp-in-2008-to-transform-scottish-island-economies-and-then-be-forgotten-by-the-ungrateful-among-them/
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CalMac, youngest ferries, best funding and most staff
Image – CalMac Professor John Robertson OBA The Scotsman today has – CalMac hit by ‘challenging’ year from increased severe weather and ageing fleet. The ‘ageing fleet…
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From the Maginot Line we came late to Saint Valery The panzers dashing to the coast were soon upon us We paid a bloody price on Winston Churchill’s say Marched ten thousand strong to years behind the wire
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Listen and make your own on Suno.
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Cancer waiting times shorten in Scotland and hundreds treated faster than if they lived in England
Professor John Robertson OBA From Public Health Scotland’s Cancer waiting times 1 July to 30 September 2025 published today: 70.7% of patients started treatment within 62 days, compared with …
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With 50% more registered nurses, no Scottish health board has scarily high mortality rates due to use of unqualified staff increasingly common in NHS England
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Times, three days ago, the above graph reveals that those health trusts in England which are increasingly using less qualified staff rather than fully register…
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As Jack McConnel's political 'think tank' in the Scotsman and Herald thoughtlessly encourages next year's S4 to avoid even trying maths because only 4 in 10 pass when in truth it's 7 in 10, how does England do we wonder:
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Shock as 35% more Scots 16 year-olds pass English exams and 14% more pass mathematics exams, than 16 year-olds in English schools do, to force Labour into panic and plans to just give up on exams
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie once more for alerting me to this. In the Telegraph yesterday, the above and: For comparative purposes, I’ll use the percentages for th…
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