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Love cooking, reading, being outdoors. Want to live in an independent Scotland
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News you won’t hear – Scottish Government’s ‘world-leading’ legislation on NHS staffing levels is already working as staffing ratios in Scotland are already significantly better
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/28/n...
News you won’t hear – Scottish Government’s ‘world-leading’ legislation on NHS staffing levels is already working as staffing ratios in Scotland are already significantly better
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Scottish Government yesterday: The Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) is the UK’s first multidisciplinary staffing legislation and Scot…
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November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Remember what
Nicola Sturgeon said
well it's now coming into view 👇
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I think we all knew that the UK COVID inquiry would result in a stitch up of our First Minister. We were right.

What it highlights clearly is the ignorant, arrogant and dismissive attitude of Westminster - particularly No.10 - towards our Government.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/unfa...
Covid report slammed as 'unfair' and 'incorrect' | LBC
The Covid inquiry report has been branded “unfair” on the Scottish Government
www.lbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Why will BBC Scotland’s James Cook not inform you of the facts – how Scottish ministers closed schools and saved thousands?👇

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/21/w...
Why will BBC Scotland’s James Cook not inform you of the facts – how Scottish ministers closed schools and saved thousands?
and the current First Minister, John Swinney, to close school without the Cabinet being present. Professor John Robertson OBA Is it because Cook just trusts the Herald and is too lazy to do his job…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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It was only in Scotland that opposition parties were regularly invited on to critique the Scottish Government’s pandemic decisions talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/21/i...
It was only in Scotland that opposition parties were regularly invited on to critique the Scottish Government’s pandemic decisions
BBC Scotland BBC Wales By brendarobb I see only the BBC Scotland web page headline names a politician within a negative framing, in Wales & N Ireland headlines are negative but no names initial…
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November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My latest blog piece, the double standards of the anti-independence media's coverage of the Covid Inquiry.

weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
The Scottish media’s covid double standards
Did Nicola Sturgeon get everything right during the Covid pandemic when she headed a devolved government limited powers at its disposal and she was faced with an anti-independence Scottish media th…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The answer to all the media attempts to smear Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP Government and will not tell you about - excess deaths nearly twice as high in England and 20% higher in Wales t.co/vHHPbEUoY3 hidden on Page 45!
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Have Scottish Government’s significantly widened access to free flu vaccine to give more than twice as many, per capita, protection from worrying new mutation, prevented a crisis? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/20/h...
Have Scottish Government’s significantly widened access to free flu vaccine to give more than twice as many, per capita, protection from worrying new mutation, prevented a crisis?
Professor John Robertson OBA From Viral respiratory diseases in Scotland surveillance report, published on 20 November 2025 (Latest release): Whilst influenza activity in Scotland remains at low le…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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There are so many examples, but I still find it amazing that the BBC in Scotland - or any British media, for that matter - go out of their way 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 to make these comparisons between Scotland and England. Well done 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 👏
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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'Operation fear' has well and truly begun, appalling reporting, as ever from BBC Scotland, our national public broadcaster, and we're still months out from the election.
This is shameful. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/29/i...
In only 4 minutes, four out of four BBC Scotland broadcast reports aim to worry viewers and three are explicitly associated with Scottish Government responsibility
Professor John Robertson OBA Following on from a tale of ‘serious’ concerns in a maternity unit, BBC Scotland’s four morning inserts were all equally concerning and three of them …
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October 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Here in Scotland BBC Scotland platforms, a caller who wants to tear the NHS down, a GP who wants to get back to the 50s and another caller who wants to run it like a Kwikfit garage, all the while blaming the SNP.
All this negativity, instead of this 👇
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/27/c...
Indy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Credible research, ie not from Jack McConnell’s ‘think-tank’, also suggests NHS Scotland has highest satisfaction levels in UK and they’re not falling significantly
now than it was 10 years ago. Think-tank Enlighten has released findings ahead of a major doctors conference today. Professor John Robertson OBA We have good reason to doubt the above ‘resear…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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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 Scotland? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/27/n...
NHS England threaten longer waiting lists, already quarter of million longer than in Scotland and to ration care – Imagine that was in Scotland?
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Guardian today, the above and: NHS bosses are seeking an emergency injection of £3bn to cover unexpected costs and have warned ministers that without it patien…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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In 2010, the four UK nations put in about the same amount per head to cover NHS dental care.

In 23/24, Scotland's support for NHS dental care is nearly double that of England and higher than any other UK nation.
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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How in anyone’s book can this be seen as failure.
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Just finished my daisy blanket! 🧶
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM