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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz'
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'Yes may have had a sustained lead on the ground for many years, but that fact has been effectively concealed from us by dubious polling methodology.' James Kelly
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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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November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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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November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/13/t...
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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November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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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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November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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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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November 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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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 …
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November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM