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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 20h

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Very little evidence of young children taking knives into schools in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA There’s not one reference to Scotland in this 1 500 word report yet the broadcast on BBC Breakfast this morning explicitly includes it in the problem and the call…

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'My new book shows how UK media and politicians are complicit in Gaza destruction’

PETER Oborne was in a cafe in the city of Nablus in the West Bank last year when he decided to write his soon-to-be-released book: Complicit:…

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 2d

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NHS Scotland was ready to complete 98% of operations in August 2025 despite steadily increasing demand

Professor John Robertson OBA From Public Health Scotland today: During August 2025, there were 24,750 operations planned to take place across NHSScotland. This is 3.1% higher (+753) than the number…

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Scottish flotilla activist hospitalised after Israel imprisonment

A Scottish activist who was imprisoned by Israel has been "rushed to hospital" after returning to Glasgow ...

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 2d

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Long A&E waits more than twice as common in NHS England but despite that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in England has little to say by comparison with its comments in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA From Public Health Scotland today, we see that 4.2% patients spent more than 12 hours in A&E.1 From NHS England, the equivalent figure was, once calculated from the…

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UK arms exports to Israel 'hit record high' in recent months

UK Government arms exports to Israel hit a "record high" in recent months, analysis has found.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow's Sunday National 📰

UK keeps Brits in dark on plan to sell off data

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 5d

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As the Guardian reports cancer treatment failures in NHS England how Scotland hits 95% target and outperforms it to save thousands but ‘your’ media keep quiet

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above. Looking at the most recent statistics: NHS Scotland In Q2 2025 (April-June), 95.3% of 7 461 patients started treatment within 31 days …

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 8d

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Arran ferry’s ‘faults’ started when the contract to build it was awarded by Scottish Conservatives to an inexperienced English yard on its last legs in a Conservative constituency

have been without a reliable regular ferry service for the past year. By Professor John Robertson, OBA As BBC Reporting Scotland celebrate the return of the MV Caledonian Isles to the Arran service…

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Niaroo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @niaroo35.bsky.social · 8d

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'Disturbing': Morgan McSweeney's power over UK exposed in explosive book

“You might not be interested in Morgan McSweeney, but he’s very interested in you.”

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 8d

Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government.

Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
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The PPE scandal is far from over | Good Law Project

The Tory VIP lane was a high road to cronyism, says Henry Marsh.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9d

Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare.

Govt levies VAT on private school fees. Why not on healthcare? Billions can be raised.

Private sector freeloads on NHS trained staff, doesn't pay for training. Makes excessive profits from NHS contracts.

Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare

The health secretary says

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Why Blair must be kept out of Gaza

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10d

Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10d

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Drug deaths falling sharply for 5 years and treatment beating 90% target for 4 years suggests that the ‘sorry state’ is of journalism in the Sunday Post

With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, A…

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Niaroo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @niaroo35.bsky.social · 10d

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Meet the industry bosses running UK Government departments

THE former CEO of BAE Systems, the British Airways executive who oversees its lobbying team, the chairman of the Petrochemical giant Ineos and…

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Oor Steve @oorsteve.bsky.social · 11d

They seized Garden shears and tea bags. Undeclared donations of more money than SNP's £600,000, which sits in an account, Mc Sweeney says 'its an oversight'. No enquiry. It is simply different standards for different parties.

GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 11d

Two tier headlines.

SNP accused of using indyref donations for other SNP activities. Sturgeon & her partner arrested. House ransacked. Charges dropped.

The other, over £700,000 undeclared "donations" is an "admin error". No arrests.

All. Perfectly. Normal.

Police rifled through Nicola Sturgeon’s bin and garden in raids of home and SNP HQ
Police Scotland said extra measures had been put in place to provide privacy as officers removed items from the house in Glasgow

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/05/police-crime-scene-tent-nicola-sturgeon-home-safeguarding/

Morgan McSweeney will not be investigated over Labour Together donations
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff had been accused of not declaring £700,000 given to the think tank and seeking to pass it off as an ‘admin error’

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/morgan-mcsweeney-labour-together-electoral-commission-0lx7kxs5b

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 13d

This is possibly one of the largest weighting uplifts for No voters I've ever seen in a poll. The unweighted 581 becomes 844; a bump up of 45% on the original figure.
This is why 2014 weighting is surely no longer defensible.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 13d

OOPS!
Not sure Scotland in Union will be happy that Survation have accidentally revealed the real #Indyref2 voting intention figures that totally contradict their bollocksy leave/ remain question.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: A plan to make Tony Blair the interim leader of Gaza has been described as “nothing short of insane” by the SNP

Plan to make Tony Blair interim leader of Gaza branded ‘insane’ by SNP

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 13d

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As sick US nuclear weapons workers anticipate action by President Trump why there must be action here on the radioactive tritium emissions around Clyde nuclear sub base which ‘smash into’ your DNA and...

Grokked by Simon Templar @liam9904 With only 4 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: or by direct bank transfer method – Jo…

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 14d

I am opposed to mandatory digital ID - people should be able to go about their daily lives without such infringements.

That aside, by calling it BritCard, the Prime Minister seems to be attempting to force every Scot to declare ourselves British.

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Double Down News @doubledown.news · 16d

EXPOSED: The Scandal That Could Bring Down Keir Starmer's Government

This is BIG

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Niaroo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @niaroo35.bsky.social · 15d

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SNP call on Keir Starmer to launch inquiry into Morgan McSweeney donations row

The SNP has called for Keir Starmer to "order a full and immediate inquiry” into the allegations that his top aide broke the law by hiding…

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