Dave
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Scotland, Scottish football, living abroad and missing everyone, only the good guys please, you know who you are
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Looking forward to seeing the favourable Scottish CofE attainment levels being announced in all the “Scottish” media outlets, both print and broadcasting, with front page headlines and an interview with Jenny Gilruth. Is it on the BBC Scotland webpage? No? Why ever not?
New Scottish Government statistics published today show that over the last year, the number of pupils in Scotland’s schools reaching expected levels of literacy and numeracy is at the highest level on record and the poverty-related attainment gap is at a record low.
www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/publications...
Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels 2024-25
Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) levels: 2024-25 provides information on national performance in literacy and numeracy, based on all pupils in publicly funded Primary 1, Primary 4, Prima...
www.gov.scot
December 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Looking forward to seeing the favourable Scottish CofE attainment levels being announced in all the “Scottish” media outlets, both print and broadcasting, with front page headlines and an interview with Jenny Gilruth. Is it on the BBC Scotland webpage? No? Why ever not?
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Scotland needs more carers, but Westminster is driving them away.
Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.
With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.
Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.
With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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How can Glasgow need a mayor to tackle a supposed productivity gap when its productivity is steadily growing and outstripping all but one English city, all already with mayors? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/03/h...
How can Glasgow need a mayor to tackle a supposed productivity gap when its productivity is steadily growing and outstripping all but one English city, all already with mayors?
Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald yesterday continued its Scottish Labour campaign with a report from a non-transparent think tank, Centre for Cities, to suggest it needs a mayor to tackle it…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
How can Glasgow need a mayor to tackle a supposed productivity gap when its productivity is steadily growing and outstripping all but one English city, all already with mayors? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/03/h...
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Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.
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MPs are discussing punishing people for wearing medals they're not entitled to - meet Prince Edward. Dropped out of Marines during training 🤮
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The “Number Crunching” pieces in Private Eye are always so fascinating. In case anyone hadn’t realised it the climate crisis is all about money not people whose very existence is potentially at risk!
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The “Number Crunching” pieces in Private Eye are always so fascinating. In case anyone hadn’t realised it the climate crisis is all about money not people whose very existence is potentially at risk!
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We're continuing to make real progress in our NHS.
Waits for treatment have fallen for the fifth month in a row. More to do, but our plan is working.👇
Waits for treatment have fallen for the fifth month in a row. More to do, but our plan is working.👇
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We're continuing to make real progress in our NHS.
Waits for treatment have fallen for the fifth month in a row. More to do, but our plan is working.👇
Waits for treatment have fallen for the fifth month in a row. More to do, but our plan is working.👇
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I’ll leave this here, Prem…
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’ll leave this here, Prem…
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So the lib dems in Shetland get £850k funding for climate projects, but couldnt think of any so propped up their routine budgets instead!
I'm thinking blue tents, camper vans first minister arrests over £600k.
But its ok for lib dems!
Source:
talkingupscotlandtwo.wordpress.com?action=user_...
I'm thinking blue tents, camper vans first minister arrests over £600k.
But its ok for lib dems!
Source:
talkingupscotlandtwo.wordpress.com?action=user_...
talkingupscotlandtwo.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So the lib dems in Shetland get £850k funding for climate projects, but couldnt think of any so propped up their routine budgets instead!
I'm thinking blue tents, camper vans first minister arrests over £600k.
But its ok for lib dems!
Source:
talkingupscotlandtwo.wordpress.com?action=user_...
I'm thinking blue tents, camper vans first minister arrests over £600k.
But its ok for lib dems!
Source:
talkingupscotlandtwo.wordpress.com?action=user_...
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It's not going away
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's not going away
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Rachael Johnson: "Boris did his best".
Only because his best has always been fucking awful.
Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.
Only because his best has always been fucking awful.
Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Rachael Johnson: "Boris did his best".
Only because his best has always been fucking awful.
Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.
Only because his best has always been fucking awful.
Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.
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🚨The Video Farage & Tice don’t want you to see… with their friend & Russian 🇷🇺 Spy Nathan Gill is…
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I wonder what colour the sky is on planet Mark?
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I wonder what colour the sky is on planet Mark?
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‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
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The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
The document also has stinging criticism of a “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then prime minister actively embraced – in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
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A key part that made this a national event was, for once, showing our national team playing on free-to-air TV (the BBC this time).
A short term arrangement for Scotland matches. But a permanent one for England. And yet BBC Scotland broadcasts mostly... nothing.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
A short term arrangement for Scotland matches. But a permanent one for England. And yet BBC Scotland broadcasts mostly... nothing.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Can’t stop watching the replays’: Scotland fans on World Cup qualification
Five who were at Hampden Park or watching from afar share their reactions to the end of a 28-year wait
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A key part that made this a national event was, for once, showing our national team playing on free-to-air TV (the BBC this time).
A short term arrangement for Scotland matches. But a permanent one for England. And yet BBC Scotland broadcasts mostly... nothing.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
A short term arrangement for Scotland matches. But a permanent one for England. And yet BBC Scotland broadcasts mostly... nothing.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Man of the people or privately educated, rich, greedy, entitled, selfish, bone-idle, divisive grifting gobshite?
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Man of the people or privately educated, rich, greedy, entitled, selfish, bone-idle, divisive grifting gobshite?
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Reform-led Kent County Council have repainted the ‘School Keep Clear’ markings on both sides of the road outside Halfway Houses Primary School on the Isle of Sheppey. It’s clear that they are taking the safety of children incredibly seriously. The school closed down in October 2016...
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reform-led Kent County Council have repainted the ‘School Keep Clear’ markings on both sides of the road outside Halfway Houses Primary School on the Isle of Sheppey. It’s clear that they are taking the safety of children incredibly seriously. The school closed down in October 2016...
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In the year to 2023, BBC Scotland issued more error corrections than all of the broadcaster’s other UK regional and national offices combined,overwhelmingly as a result of inaccurate criticism of the Scottish Government.'
@weegingerdug.bsky.social, via The National
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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
In the year to 2023, BBC Scotland issued more error corrections than all of the broadcaster’s other UK regional and national offices combined,overwhelmingly as a result of inaccurate criticism of the Scottish Government.'
@weegingerdug.bsky.social, via The National
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@weegingerdug.bsky.social, via The National
archive.is/rbSc6
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
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Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.