Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz'
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This is a dark, deeply cynical campaign to undermine the SNP based on not one rape by a biological man identifying as a trans woman of a biological woman and ignoring many rapes by biological males of...
Professor John Robertson OBA For more than a year now the ‘Scottish’ media have been obsessing over the risk of rape of women by biological males identifying as woman, especially but no…
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A strange kind of non-story that makes you think that the timing of this is a tad too convenient with the Scottish & Welsh elections coming up next year
Jackie Baillie MSP with Waspi women By Liz S This story was covered in the BBC website on the 11 October 2025. “Government to rethink rejection of Waspi compensation” It’s a strange kind of no…
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Why are only the right-wing media making an argument against 300 plus asylum seekers being sent to Inverness?
Professor John Robertson OBA The news that the 309 young male asylum seekers arriving in Inverness are going to lead to veterans [three families] being booted out of Cameron Barracks in Inverness i…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/12/why-are-only-the-right-wing-media-making-an-argument-against-300-plus-asylum-seekers-being-sent-to-inverness/
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....about their Scottish parties (sic). They don't car. They don't think. They don't care. It's not of interest. The only thing that's important to them is what's going on at Westminster. That is the facts of life under devolution, I'm afraid.
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If you can tolerate the host's ectually very posh enunciation, this is interesting and insightful, and entertaining, on current Labour chaos:
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Civil War Inside Labour: Starmer vs Streeting as Leadership Challenge Looms
YouTube video by Holyrood Sources
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Why has J K Rowling never commented on the Darlington Trans Tribunal?
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Alasdair Macdonald and to Liz S for giving me this idea. Has J K Rowling commented on the Darlington NHS trans tribunal? No, J.K. Rowling has not commented on…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/12/why-has-j-k-rowling-never-commented-on-the-darlington-trans-tribunal/
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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…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/12/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-sco/
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BBC Scotland Environment Correspondent's malfunction suggests he's really an MI5 AI 'bot'.
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Reposted as Herald fails to offer context and fails to understand that the survey was not about 'NHS' but only local services:
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Satisfaction with local health services TWICE as high in Scotland and more so in rural areas to cast doubt on BMA Dr Kennedy’s politically motivated comments
From Scottish Household Survey 2024: Satisfaction with Local Health Services and Sport and Leisure Facilities, published today: Across Scotland, the percentage of adults who said they were satisfie…
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The Darlington ‘trans tribunal’ is focused on the Nurses and the Trust
By Liz S BBC website article added on today 11 October. On main England page, it is now the third story, and local news page for Tees, now the second story….article only added on today 11…
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BBC Scotland fail to find any prisoners ‘on the run’ and THIRTY times* more are released in error from English jails
*Three times per capita but it’s still 91 of them against only 3 in similar areas Professor John Robertson OBA Yesterday, in the Guardian, the above and: The justice secretary has revealed th…
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Reposted as Labour panic leads them to try, with vague unconvincing promises, to stop Waspi women voting SNP:
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Labour letting the Waspi women die in poverty is just business for my local Labour MP, the BBC and BBC Scotland, as they shield Sarwar
By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS In the Guardian today: Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders i…
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Reposted as BBC Scotland milk for a month a maybe strike by teacher union they used condemn for hurting children but now find useful to try to hurt SNP and which should know when it's well-off here:
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‘Teachers to vote on strike action over workload’ despite Scotland maintaining the lowest PTRs overall, reflecting higher per-pupil spending and policy priorities on smaller classes
Professor John Robertson OBA It’s impossible to escape the conclusion that if teacher workload is the issue in Scottish schools then there is a failure here of management in schools to apply …
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Reposted as changes to the imprisonment of abusers cause concern in England:
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Latest figures further highlight the shocking contrast between levels of domestic abuse of children and adults in England and Scotland
Professor John Robertson OBA Back around 2014, Frankie Boyle joked that if Scotland was to become an Islamic republic, it would have to start treating its women better. It was already a joke well p…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/14/latest-figures-further-highlight-the-shocking-contrast-between-levels-of-domestic-abuse-of-children-and-adults-in-england-and-scotland/
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There is no hospital in Scotland you need fear attending but in England, 31 you might be wary of and 5 you really need to stay away from
Professor John Robertson OBA Once again Public Health Scotland publish figures showing that all of Scotland’s hospitals are operating with the same high safety levels as each other. In the ab…
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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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Glasgow University Rector describes Zionist entity organ theft from Palestinian bodies while Starmer welcomes Herzog to Downing Street
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Glasgow University Rector describes Zionist entity organ theft from Palestinian bodies while Starmer welcomes Herzog to Downing Street
How can Scotland bear being shackled to the morally bankrupt British State?
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Satisfaction with local health services TWICE as high in Scotland and more so in rural areas to cast doubt on BMA Dr Kennedy’s politically motivated comments
From Scottish Household Survey 2024: Satisfaction with Local Health Services and Sport and Leisure Facilities, published today: Across Scotland, the percentage of adults who said they were satisfie…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/11/satisfaction-with-local-health-services-twice-as-high-in-scotland-and-more-so-in-rural-areas-to-cast-doubt-on-bma-dr-kennedys-politically-motivated-comments/
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Breastfeeding more common for first time as Scottish Government’s most progressive and well-funded promotion programme in the UK pays-off
Professor John Robertson OBA From Infant feeding statistics Financial year 2024 to 2025, published today, the above momentous graph and: Supporting breastfeeding is an important public health activ…
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Why “Motormouth” is a very apt description of Anas Sarwar
By Liz S “Sarwar refuses to comment on UK tax hike speculation“ Really ? Yet he, Sarwar, is not slow in commentating upon and also speculating upon so many o…
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4 000 Scottish cancer patients treated on time, in just one year, who would not have been had they lived in Labour Wales
Remember that 11% gap (above) with Wales means around 4 000 were treated on time in Scotland who would not have been, had they lived in Wales. Similarly around 800 who would not have been treated o…
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Early release of prisoners can cause anxiety but shouldn’t taxpayer-funded media tell people that only 5% will re-offend on release from prisons with twice as many staff per capita?
Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland, today, has the above choice as the headline, neatly emphasising the negative and implicating the Minister with that wee ‘admits minister’ but …
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UK Unemployment surges to massive 35% higher than in Scotland – will ‘SNP’ Government get the credit just as they would have been blamed if it was the other way round?
Professor John Robertson OBA These two headlines today and the full text, reveal the agenda in editorial decision-making, in BBC Scotland reporting, to conceal good news about Scotland, after 18 ye…
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Isle of Wight Tory MP calls for ferry pricing regulation introduced by the SNP in 2008 to transform Scottish island economies and then be forgotten by the ungrateful among them
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Independent last week: Ferries which connect island communities to mainland Britain are in decline, an MP has warned in his push to bring boats more in line wi…
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Good news you won’t hear – 72 000 Scottish workers receive pay boost thanks to Scottish Government
Professor John Robertson OBA Not being reported by BBC Scotland or BBC Scotland Business, despite being announced 8 hours ago on the Scottish Government’s news website, on automatic Google al…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/10/good-news-you-wont-hear-72-000-scottish-workers-receive-pay-boost-thanks-to-scottish-government/
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Jimmy Reid’s granddaughter is joined by Kemi Badenoch in darkly cynical campaign to smear Scotland with disgraceful suggestion SNP is ‘hiding something’ about grooming rape gangs here too
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald today, on the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch: Kemi Badenoch has described Police Scotland’s failure to investigate a grooming gang in Scotland as “utterly sham…
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BBC Scotland still hiding where the buck should have stopped for the three Stonehaven rail deaths five years ago
Sir Grant Shapps – where the buck should have stopped for the three Stonehaven rail deaths From BBC Scotland today, the above and: The inquiry into a train derailment which killed three men i…
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New research reveals worst forms of homelessness up to two thirds higher in England than in Scotland
Professor John Robertson OBA I’m not for a minute excusing any level of homelessness but, if these data were the other way round, we all know who’d be blamed and blamed repeatedly. From…
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Why the 'builders' warning in the Herald today of increased costs due to post-Grenfell cladding repairs make no sense in Scotland:
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There are no lives at risk from a Grenfell-like towering inferno in Scotland due to cavity fire barriers and higher building standards but tell that to the Herald
Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: if you prefer, a bank transfer, at sort code 089300 account 1421 7339 Professor John Robertson OBA In …
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Sarwar’s pet professor should have read HMRC report showing that Scotland’s progressive taxation seems not to have ‘put people off Scotland’ as quality of life, lower housing costs, lower crime, bette...
Professor John Robertson OBA, SCE Higher Economics, 1969, C grade Professor Anton Muscatelli, former Principal Glasgow University, was born in Bari, Italy. His family migrated to Scotland, perhaps …
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FIVE years of success in turning Scotland’s drug deaths trend around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that
Professor John Robertson OBA This is simply untrue. 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 …
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On Remembrance Sunday, peer-reviewed research proves that Scotland’s WW1 army war dead was a greater sacrifice, 63% higher than the rest of the UK
Professor John Robertson OBA With the UK media again saturated with frankly disturbing jingoism based on myths about the two world, it seems like a good moment to repeat this attempt to r…
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How BBC Scotland sought to suppress and to justify that suppression of the only academic research revealing their deep bias in 2014
Professor John Robertson OBA Looking for the first time in years at the above fascinating and comprehensive analysis of broadcast TV bias in the run-up to the Scottish Independence refere…
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Scotland - the only part of the UK where BBC bias is not a resigning matter:
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A tale of BBC Scotland’s response to Scottish Government press releases – how widespread, how blatant is bias by omission becoming?
By stewartb Each and every working day at 1600 hours, the Scottish Government sends out an e-mail headed ‘Daily news update’. This collates all press releases issued that day, presumably in part as…
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Scottish Government significantly widened access to free flu vaccine to give more than twice as many, per capita, protection from worrying new mutation
Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Health today and being broadcast widely and frequently, the above and: Flu strikes every winter, but this year something seems to be different. A seasonal flu …
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Edinburgh is top UK city in Holiday Happiness Index 25 places ahead of London
Professor John Robertson OBA I know, it doesn’t quite fit the kind of mean image Scots sometimes have of some of the capital’s inhabitants but to outsiders, it seems, Edinburgh is a war…
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In Scotland with a GDP half the size of Washington State USA, the ferry service is much more punctual – 99% to 72% – but only it is fined?In
Professor John Robertson OBA, Academic Reporter of the Decade The Herald today has the above, and: The Scottish Government-owned ferry operator CalMac was fined more than £20 million for failing is…
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‘Scottish’ Labour MP Joani Reid appears on right-wing media to try to drag Scotland into England’s grooming rape gangs shame
Professor John Robertson OBA The ever-alert MSM Monitor spots the latest attempt by Jimmy Reid’s granddaughter, Joani, to shame Scotland on behalf of UK Labour. The facts she cares nothing fo…
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I’ll get big stick for this ‘whitabootery’ I know but ADHD and Autism waiting list for ‘kids’ is 30% longer, and for adults THREE times as long, in England
Professor John Robertson OBA It’s been suggested that I can be a bit ‘neurodiverse’ myself, lacking filters, at times when I compare sensitive issues in Scotland and England but, …
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Will Lisa Nandy call Anas Sarwar and see if he can find out how Scotland’s prisons manage to keep prisoners in prison with not one on the run here but 22 in England? He already knows how
Professor John Robertson OBA Labour’s Lisa Nandy, speaking for Home Secretary, David Lammy I guess, this morning to agree that it’s unacceptable that there are currently 22 prisoners in…
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As the Guardian warns 'England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year' (Thanks Dorothy) remember this stunning fact:
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James Cook’s reporting does not hold water in a country with 5.5 million litres per person, 40 times that in England
Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Scotland’s James Cook, today: Rivers at critical level as Scotland’s water supplies feel the strain – Water levels are way below av…
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Further delays in English nuclear power station project owned by France hammers home huge costs and inefficiency of Labour’s plans for Scotland to spend THREE times as much to generate electricity
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Frances McKie for alerting me to this. From Bloomberg UK, two days ago, the above. Readers may remember repeated comments from Labour’s Anas Sarwar, UK …
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Residents living near the Thistle safe drug consumption facility in Glasgow pay only a TENTH of the bill for removing discarded needles after it opened than they did before it opened to further expose...
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to L for providing this convincing and objective evidence, that Thistle facility has not increased the number of dangerous discarded needles in the surrounding a…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/residents-living-near-the-thistle-safe-drug-consumption-facility-in-glasgow-pay-only-a-tenth-of-the-bill-for-removing-discarded-needles-after-it-opened-than-they-did-before-it-opened-to-further-expose/
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NHS England threaten longer waiting lists, already quarter of million longer than in Scotland and to ration care – Imagine that was in Ayrshire?
waiting list and more than 10 000 of them have waited over a year. Professor John Robertson OBA UK Labour MP, Elaine Stewart, is outside her local hospital to shout about the length of the waiting …
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/nhs-england-threaten-longer-waiting-lists-already-quarter-of-million-longer-than-in-scotland-and-to-ration-care-imagine-that-was-in-ayrshire/
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Ayrshire Labour MP fails to understand that health board debt to the Scottish Government is not like English health trusts in debt to rapacious private corporations did she?
is now in £130 million debt, the highest in Scotland. Professor John Robertson OBA How worrying is the above debt? Not at all. From Every Doctor, the above and: The NHS is haemorrhag…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/ayrshire-labour-mp-fails-to-understand-that-health-board-debt-to-the-scottish-government-is-not-like-english-health-trusts-in-debt-to-rapacious-private-corporations-did-she/
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99% of drug and alcohol patients seen in 3 weeks, 99% of children and adolescents with mental health problems seen on time and 98% of cancer patients begin treatment within 31 days but local Labour MP...
being missed. Professor John Robertson OBA UK Labour’s Elaine Stewart outside her local hospital to shout about supposed failures, demoralising passing staff again and being carefully selecti…
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Disgusting Daily Record politicises one baby death to malign Scotland’s maternity service, the best in Britain
Professor John Robertson OBA The Record today with another single case of supposed NHS failure then generalised and politicised to mislead readers and viewers. This representation of Scotland’…
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/disgusting-daily-record-politicises-one-baby-death-to-malign-scotlands-maternity-service-the-best-in-britain/
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Brian Leishman kisses the PM’s ring for early release in error and enjoys the whip again
Making it onto the BBC Scotland Politics page but totally ignored by his local, the Falkirk Herald, Leishman released early from Whipless Prison By Liz S “Whip restored to suspended Labour MP Leish…
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