Talking-up Scotland
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The number of women murder victims has fallen dramatically, almost by half, over the SNP period and to 15 last year, but the Sunday Post finds 200 for its front page to help England keep its myth goin...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In 2007/2008, in the the first year of the SNP minority government in Scotland, there were 28 women victims of murder.1 Last year, there were 15…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/the-number-of-women-murder-victims-has-fallen-dramatically-almost-by-half-over-the-snp-period-and-to-15-last-year-but-the-sunday-post-finds-200-for-its-front-page-to-help-england-keep-its-myth-goin/
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‘Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers’ reminds us that spikes in childhood leukaemia, breast cancer, thyroid cancer and all cancers around nuclear facilities have been...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The National’s report today with the above headline, reminds me. Of what? Increased child leukaemia Increased breast cancer Increased thyr…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/major-leak-at-highland-nuclear-site-triggers-hunt-for-mystery-bunkers-reminds-us-that-spikes-in-childhood-leukaemia-breast-cancer-thyroid-cancer-and-all-cancers-around-nuclear-facilities-have-be/
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‘Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers’ is just latest in years of reported leaks at Dounreay
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The National today has as story titled “Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers” (with the subtitle or…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/major-leak-at-highland-nuclear-site-triggers-hunt-for-mystery-bunkers-is-just-latest-in-years-of-reported-leaks-at-dounreay/
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30 000 views last week!
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Murder by stabbing in Scotland has fallen in a steady trend to half of the level of 6 years ago but the Herald seeks to scare you
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. I am not, in any way, disputing the case for police officers confronted with a knife-wielding attacker to be able to protect themselves fully an…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/murder-by-stabbing-in-scotland-has-fallen-in-a-steady-trend-to-half-of-the-level-of-6-years-ago-but-the-herald-seeks-to-scare-you/
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Gender pay gap in England TWICE than in Scotland having fallen faster and further in SNP years
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Being broadcast widely today, the above TUC claim is not yet confirmed by official data. The most recent data from the ONS in October 2025, reve…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/gender-pay-gap-in-england-twice-than-in-scotland-having-fallen-faster-and-further-in-snp-years/
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Talking-up Scotland yesterday attracted more than eight thousand discrete visitors and more than ten thousand views yet…..
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Yesterday, in one day alone, Talking-up Scotland performed like this: The 6 posts, like those on almost every other day in the year took hours t…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/14/talking-up-scotland-yesterday-attracted-more-than-eight-thousand-discrete-visitors-and-more-than-ten-thousand-views-yet/
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NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board may be in debt but is performing well above 90% and above the national average on four important targets but local Tory MSP attempts to shame local staff
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The ‘Scottish’ Daily Express, today, has: SNP accused of ‘gross mismanagement’ as NHS Ayrshire placed in special measure…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/14/nhs-ayrshire-arran-health-board-may-be-in-debt-but-is-performing-well-above-90-and-above-the-national-average-on-four-important-targets-but-local-tory-msp-attempts-to-shame-local-staff/
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Reposted as media are less than clear right upfront that the story is NOT about possible theft from taxpayers ie them but ONLY from SNP members:
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Revealed – SNP only large party NOT taking thousands from lobbying groups in Scotland buying access to power
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 pa…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/25/revealed-snp-only-large-party-not-taking-thousands-from-lobbying-groups-in-scotland-buying-access-to-power/
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Scottish Government report on ‘Five years of Scottish Child Payment’ totally ignored by ‘our’ media
Story here for any half-decent reporter – Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Scottish Child Payment has supported more than 241,000 parents and carers since its launch five …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/14/scottish-government-report-on-five-years-of-scottish-child-payment-totally-ignored-by-our-media/
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Not good enough, I know, but according to Labour’s then Dame Helena Kennedy “Scotland has proudly led the way in many areas concerning women’s rights and violence against women”
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The horrific story of Gisele Pelicot dominates BBC News this morning, understandably, and the Talking-up Scotland comment below will trigger fau…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/14/not-good-enough-i-know-but-according-to-labours-then-dame-helena-kennedy-scotland-has-proudly-led-the-way-in-many-areas-concerning-womens-rights-and-violence-against-women/
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The "accountant as saboteur" is a classic espionage move - including informants near or in financial roles who spread rumours of embezzlement, plundered funds, or created chaos to drain resources and foster distrust.
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How The FBI Used Murder And Blackmail To Thwart The Civil Rights And Antiwar Movements
They conducted illegal actions against U.S. citizens for two decades and got away with it.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cointelpro-fbi/2
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Wes Streeting and Ian Murray humiliated as Scotland’s roll-out of health data digitisation now seem likely to be smoother and quicker than that in England
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. England’s Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray, have delighted in the the alleged s…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/wes-streeting-and-ian-murray-humiliated-as-scotlands-roll-out-of-health-data-digitisation-now-seem-likely-to-be-smoother-and-quicker-than-that-in-england/
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Daily Record’s front page today exposed for what it is – short video
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Evidence here – Important – my full range of fleeces now exposed, still lip-scarred and not frothing (!) and perhaps my least profes…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/daily-records-front-page-today-exposed-for-what-it-is-short-video/
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Should Pam Duncan-Glancy not have tried to support her long time friend in some way?
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Alasdair Macdonald You are correct as always to point out and publicize the political anti-independence bias displayed by BBC Scotland and the u…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/should-pam-duncan-glancy-not-have-tried-to-support-her-long-time-friend-in-some-way/comment-page-1/#comment-99906
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If you ever want to prove what a website looked like in the past, say before they remove something controversial or inaccurate - To access archive pages for eg
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web.archive.org
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Scotland | Latest News & Updates | BBC News
Get all the latest news, live updates and content about the Scotland from across the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scotland
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Labour MSP and friend of convicted paedophile disappears completely from BBC News in just two days unlike Nicola and Peter back in 2023
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Only the day before yesterday and Labour MSP Pam Duncan Glancy had doubled down on a defence of her friendship with a convicted paedophile so, w…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/labour-msp-and-friend-of-convicted-paedophile-disappears-completely-from-bbc-news-in-just-two-days-unlike-nicola-and-peter-back-in-2023/
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Daily Records confuses ‘suspects’ with ‘criminals’ to scare you and ignores Scotland’s far lower murder rate and violence against women..to scare you
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Still fighting hard for Scottish Labour, the Record has another of it’s utterly dishonest and immoral front pages today, with in the openi…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/daily-records-confuses-suspects-with-criminals-to-scare-you-and-ignores-scotlands-far-lower-murder-rate-and-violence-against-women-to-scare-you/
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Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. We know that the hundred’s of County Lines drug gangs terrorising small town Scotland, increasing violent crime, prostitution, child abuse…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/criminals-stealing-used-cooking-oil-from-scotlands-chip-shops-are-mobile-groups-traveling-to-scotland-for-opportunistic-thefts/
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What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess?
That is cute! I love that. It’s from Scotland not England? I’ve met Sir Keir Starmer the Prime Minister of England when he visited that creepy Mandelson guy at the British Embassy. Engl…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/what-kind-of-miserable-wee-se-had-the-meanness-of-spirit-to-ask-how-much-it-cost-to-send-the-new-york-mayor-an-snp-baby-box-and-which-media-outlet-do-they-work-for-whats-your-guess/
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Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Today, BBC UK present, uncritically, the suggestion that waiting lists are falling at the same time as they’re getting longer, in NHS Alic…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/another-attempt-to-hide-the-true-nhs-england-performance-as-waiting-lists-in-scotland-keep-falling/
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BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out ...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. First thing today, on BBC Breakfast, we hear of a joint BBC News/New Statesman, external investigation into maternity care at University Hospita…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/bbc-uk-find-55-babies-who-died-may-have-survived-with-better-care-to-add-to-police-investigations-into-hundreds-of-avoidable-baby-deaths-in-nhs-england-but-none-in-scotland-and-nhs-england-pa/
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Talking-up Scotland pushes well beyond 1 000 readers per day average but cannot attract realistic funding
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Talking-up Scotland has been growing and improving since its first crowd-funders, in February and September 2025, as is clear from our monthly W…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/talking-up-scotland-pushes-well-beyond-1-000-readers-per-day-average-but-cannot-attract-realistic-funding/
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An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Four hours ago on the Scottish Government’s latest news site, surely followed by all political editors: Resident Doctors have voted to acc…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/an-actual-97-resident-doctor-vote-to-call-off-strike-action-is-not-news-yet-last-year-when-they-might-hopefully-in-the-future-do-so-it-was/
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First new GP walk-in service opens but is also not news for BBC Scotland
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. On STV News and in the Herald but, again, hidden by BBC Scotland: Patients will have access to GP-led care on the same day without an appointmen…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/first-new-gp-walk-in-service-opens-but-is-also-not-news-for-bbc-scotland/
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Young Phineas fogs the truth but after two decades away from London party oversight, building standards and regulations in Scotland are generally more strict or demanding than those in England in seve...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Guardian today: Even multimillionaires can’t escape Britain’s cowboy builders, it seems. Last week, residents of One Hyde Park, the UK’s …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/young-phineas-fogs-the-truth-but-after-two-decades-away-from-london-party-oversight-building-standards-and-regulations-in-scotland-are-generally-more-strict-or-demanding-than-those-in-england-in-seve/
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Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. To be fair, she’s in the top position, though we’ll soon see how long she lasts there and you’ll note they’ve kept the &…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/scottish-labour-not-just-friends-of-paedophiles-but-by-far-the-most-actual-convicted-sex-offenders-including-5-paedophiles-convicted-since-2007/
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Reports of pupils carrying knives in Scottish schools fall by more than three-quarters to a level only one-twelfth of that in England & Wales
No tasteless exploitative images here. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. From BBC London this morning: Police are continuing to question a 13-year-old boy arrested on suspicion o…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/reports-of-pupils-carrying-knives-in-scottish-schools-fall-by-more-than-three-quarters-to-a-level-only-one-twelfth-of-that-in-england-wales/
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95% of Scotland’s schools in good condition up from only 62% under Labour and they struggle to do anything about it in England after 19 months in government
and need refurbishing or even replacing, according to a group of MPs in a report that’s out this morning. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. That’s the message on BBC …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/95-of-scotlands-schools-in-good-condition-up-from-only-62-under-labour-and-they-struggle-to-do-anything-about-it-in-england-after-19-months-in-government/
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Glasgow’s Superhospital is not really troubled but its namesake in Norfolk sure is – short video
Details at:
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/glasgows-superhospital-is-not-really-troubled-but-its-namesake-in-norfolk-sure-is-short-video/
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A Tale of Two Queen Elisabeth hospitals – stay away from the one in Norfolk
A review into a hospital rated as the worst performing in England has found serious failings in its surgical care including a toxic culture that risks patient safety. Please Support Talking-up Scot…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/a-tale-of-two-queen-elisabeth-hospitals-stay-away-from-the-one-in-norfolk/
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Research reveals Scotland’s free bus travel has positive impacts on health and mental wellbeing beyond schemes in the rest of the UK but it’s not getting media attention
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. From Why buses matter for health and reducing transport poverty, research published today: Bus use has positive impacts on health and mental wel…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/research-reveals-scotlands-free-bus-travel-has-positive-impacts-on-health-and-mental-wellbeing-beyond-schemes-in-the-rest-of-the-uk-but-its-not-getting-media-attention/
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Today Scottish Government commits firmly to free higher education tuition for all but not one mainstream media outlet covers this important news because…..it shines in reducing financial barriers and ...
The Times Higher Education, read only by some academics, has this below but as you can see above this important news is being hidden from the electorate: ‘We’re looking at all parts of the system –…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/today-scottish-government-commits-firmly-to-free-higher-education-tuition-for-all-but-not-one-mainstream-media-outlet-covers-this-important-news-because-it-shines-in-reducing-financial-barriers-an/
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Road deaths halve and offences fall by a third as ‘SNP’ [sic] Road Safety Framework achieves significant results with 5 years to go
Image – Grok AI Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Edinburgh Reporter yesterday based on a Sunday Mail report: Scotland’s roads are becoming deadlier amid rising fata…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/road-deaths-halve-and-offences-fall-by-a-third-as-snp-sic-road-safety-framework-achieves-significant-results-with-5-years-to-go/
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Why is the wettest part of the UK, North-east Scotland coping so well? Scottish Government investment pays off
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Look at that Met Office map above and note how awesomely wet January was for Scotland’s north-east. I suppose that photograph must there t…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/why-is-the-wettest-part-of-the-uk-north-east-scotland-coping-so-well-scottish-government-investment-pays-off/
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As Labour Wales still fails on Sepsis deaths, how under Scottish Labour, hospitals were ‘death traps’ of hospital acquired infections and how Nicola Sturgeon sorted it
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Headlining on BBC UK TV broadcasts too, the above story makes these damning comments: A BBC investigation has found sepsis awareness training is…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/10/as-labour-wales-still-fails-on-sepsis-deaths-how-under-scottish-labour-hospitals-were-death-traps-of-hospital-acquired-infections-and-how-nicola-sturgeon-sorted-it/
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"Ensnared" and "Manipulated": Official Statement by Valéria Chomsky Regarding Jeffrey Epstein
As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June 2023.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/09/ensnared-and-manipulated-official-statement-by-valeria-chomsky-regarding-jeffrey-epstein/
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Nothing in Scotland looks anything like the mass child grooming rape gangs in England but Scottish Labour desperately need a national review for their Holyrood campaign and the Herald is trying to hel...
No tasteless, exploitative images here. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The Herald today: The SNP has been accused of dragging its feet on tackling grooming gangs, after watchd…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/09/nothing-in-scotland-looks-anything-like-the-mass-child-grooming-rape-gangs-in-england-but-scottish-labour-desperately-need-a-national-review-for-their-holyrood-campaign-and-the-herald-is-trying-t/
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Spending on schools across Scotland has increased by more than £1 billion but in a media vacuum
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Above the complete media coverage of a major Scottish Government announcement on school funding, 16 hours after it was first posted. They have n…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/09/spending-on-schools-across-scotland-has-increased-by-more-than-1-billion-but-in-a-media-vacuum/
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Blue tent big enough for Mandelson police inquiry located in Ayr, Scotland – Sarwar ‘sleeping’ in Pacific Quay basement, unwashed and living on pot noodles as one Peter looks like pushing the other in...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Readers will remember the scale of the police investigation into £600 000 given to the SNP by its own members for a campaign, and which they the…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/06/blue-tent-big-enough-for-mandelson-police-inquiry-located-in-ayr-scotland-sarwar-sleeping-in-pacific-quay-basement-unwashed-and-living-on-pot-noodles-as-one-peter-looks-like-pushing-the-other/
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Since the crowdfunder started only 9 days ago, nearly 15 thousand distinct readers at Talking-up Scotland but fewer than 1 in a 100 felt it was worth a contribution?
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Sobering feedback that? I know, TuS gets lots of kindly and encouraging words but only 1 in 100 rate it worth even £1. 14 937 discrete visitors …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/09/since-the-crowdfunder-started-only-9-days-ago-nearly-15-thousand-distinct-readers-at-talking-up-scotland-but-fewer-than-1-in-a-100-felt-it-was-worth-a-contribution/
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Assisted dying – Rural hospice staff shortages for palliative care will be UK Labour Government’s responsibility but BBC Scotland try to pass it on to Holyrood
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In BBC Scotland’s short insert in BBC Breakfast, several times this morning: Hospice leaders say Scotland must must address a severe short…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/09/assisted-dying-rural-hospice-staff-shortages-for-palliative-care-will-be-uk-labour-governments-responsibility-but-bbc-scotland-try-to-pass-it-on-to-holyrood/
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Why giving your second vote to a small pro-independence party will not increase the overall number of pro-independence party MSPs in Scotland and risks even increasing number of unionist MSPs so ‘Both...
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Why giving your second vote to a small pro-independence party will not increase the overall number of pro-independence parties in Scotland and risks even increasing number of unionist MSPs so ‘Both vo...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. This is an almost entirely AI report. I trust it more than I would any assessment by human beings with the unavoidable biases and predisposition…
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Charity says worst form of homelessness in Scotland is about half as high as in England thanks to Scottish ministers having the “right political will” to tackle the problem.
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The Daily Record’s Dan Vevers has been out in the streets of Glasgow finding out what it’s like for rough-sleepers. Ironically, the …
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Social housing satisfaction levels 12% higher in Scotland as crisis strikes England
a basic decent standard, and the pace of improving them is far too slow, according to a group of MPs…….The Government said it was taking action to drive up… Please Support Talking…
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As BBC Scotland drool over a dentist shortage in Stranraer, they won’t report the shocking wider contrast as nearly twice as many Scots have access to an NHS dentist as those in England
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. BBC Breakfast had extended and intensive coverage on the dentistry crisis in England, with the above images of queues around the block to even g…
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‘Intelligence would have briefed No. 10 on vulnerabilities’ – It’s not just Starmer, Brown was the same – Arrogant Labour elites have always had different rules for their own no matter the offence or ...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The Times in 2009 noting the closeness of PM Brown and his Business Minister. In comments reported by The Times, Brown stated: “Peter is doing a…
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Selective media reading of research report to hide Scotland’s stronger support for unpaid carers
Image chatgpt Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Guardian and other UK media today: UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says – Re…
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