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Jim Graham.
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Scottish independence. Politics, sport, music and films. Colonialism is about economic exploitation. Don’t fall for the lies, smears and scaremongering aimed at maintaining the Westminster stranglehold. Give your children and grandchildren a better life.
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Internationally acclaimed Scottish writer’s latest on Scotland’s Radicals will open your eyes and even surprise you
Professor John Robertson OBA Ron Culley needs no introduction from me because AI can do it so much more fully it seems: Ron Culley is a Scottish author and former public sector executive, best know…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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We are a long way beyond "legitimate concerns about illegal immigration" These ghouls are now attacking the right of British born citizens with Asian or African family backgrounds to be in the UK and participate in public life. This is racism pure & simple.

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GB News 'spewing racist hate' with attack on ethnic minority MPs
GB News has been blasted for broadcasting “racist hate” after a pundit called British-born MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds “ambassadors…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Public school boy, multi-millionaire Farage, & his party backed by the super-rich yet posing as "anti-establishment" are the biggest con trick in British political history, if he gets into No 10 the public anger & fury will eclipse that experienced by that other political con artist Starmer.
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Reposted as Scottish Labour pretend to be supporters of Glasgow over Farage comments:
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How the media hide the fact that SNP-run Glasgow’s miles better
Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald today is on the case of an imaginary Glasgow as part of the help-Anas campaign for the May 2026 Scottish Election. It’s one of a set such as ferries, b…
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December 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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NHS Scotland’s greater resilience and Scottish Government actions paying off as flu hospital admissions surge to FOUR times England with no reports of being overwhelmed
Professor John Robertson OBA You may remember in 2020, Boris Johnson saying that NHS Scotland had resilience problems which would harm its Covid response. In the end, the excess death rate in Engla…
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December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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As Labour's new strategy on poverty is condemned by charities as 'not enough', what the SNP has done:
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Child poverty in ‘UK’ soars to almost 50% higher than in Scotland with gap only likely to widen and a resulting increase of dying young
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this: Published in Nursing Practice of 29 September 2025, One-third of UK children grow up in poverty with higher risk of dying youn…
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December 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Patient sexually assaulted and killed in her bed, six staff jailed including surgeon jailed for sexually assaulting five colleagues and a culture of systemic bullying and harassment in Blackpool hospi...
There’s a headline that could easily be misunderstood! Professor John Robertson OBA Seeing the Guardian report today on the massive shocking scandal at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, I was remi…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Why do Scotland’s deprived areas NOT have the most troubled hospitals?
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian yesterday, the above and: Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals? The findings of the report into Blackpool …
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December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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‘Grooming gangs’ – As Herald platforms Tories to reveal their squalid purpose, Scottish Government appoints a real expert
Professor John Robertson OBA The abovementioned calls are from a expected quarter: You see that first line in the second paragraph? They already know that there are grooming gangs in Scotland like …
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December 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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As Turkish yard delays small, simple-design, ferry again and again, here’s Clyde-based Ferguson Marine’s long track record of delivering them on-time and often commended in Parliament
Image CMAL Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald today: Scottish ferry built in Turkey delayed [again] with Christmas delivery ‘a challenge’ The contract for the MV Isle of Islay w…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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As BBC Scotland platform the wee Audit Scotland guy for the umpteenth time, the good news about NHS Scotland they don't want you to know about: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/03/m...
Massive 12% surge in planned operations in NHS Scotland but cancellations held at only 3.2% to still deliver 97% on time
Professor John Robertson OBA From Cancelled planned operations Month ending 31 October 2025, published yesterday, the above and: There were 27,862 operations planned to take place across NHS Scotla…
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December 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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As BBC Scotland platform the wee Audit Scotland guy for the umpteenth time, the good news about NHS Scotland they don't want you to know about:
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Despite flu surge NHS Scotland’s greater resilience is preventing hospitals being overwhelmed
Professor John Robertson OBA From Viral respiratory diseases in Scotland surveillance report published 27 November 2025 (Latest release): Influenza levels continued to rise in Scotland in week 47, …
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December 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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As BBC Scotland platform the wee Audit Scotland guy for the umpteenth time, the good news about NHS Scotland they don't want you to know about:
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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
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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December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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As BBC Scotland platform the wee Audit Scotland guy for the umpteenth time, the good news about NHS Scotland they don't want you to know about: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/26/n...
NHS Scotland has 3 000 more beds, 30% more per head, than NHS England, to enable coping with winter surges
Professor John Robertson OBA From Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (quarterly) Quarter ending 30 June 2025, published yesterday: There were on average 13,681 available staffed beds …
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December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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As BBC Scotland platform the wee Audit Scotland guy for the umpteenth time, the good news about NHS Scotland they don't want you to know about:
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services beat 90% target for fourth time to media silence
Percentage of patients who started treatment in CAMHS within 18 weeks of referral, by quarter ending September 2021 – September 2025, NHS Scotland Professor John Robertson OBA From Child and …
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December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Any Scottish stand-up – “Honestly, at this rate the only thing Great British Energy is powering is my material for the next five years.”
I’m using AI increasingly. I trust it more than most journalists or thinktanks to tell me the truth. Grok AI time after time reveals no agenda on Scottish independence. Professor John Roberts…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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As GB Energy today, announces 'support' for 10 000 jobs remember Kings Speech, Starmer's announcement, Labour Manifesto, Miliband repeatedly and GBE founding statement all say 'create' jobs!
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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My latest blog piece, just days after the Scottish Languages Act comes into force, Farage attacks Glasgow school kids in order to scaremonger about immigration. A new low even by his disgusting standards.

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Farage’s contemptible attack on Glesca weans
Nigel Farage has been a racist bully again. But don’t worry, he’s only doing it indirectly and without intent to offend or insult. So that’s OK then. Just days after the Scottish …
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December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Lammy releasing 4 times as many prisoners by error, per head, than in Scotland and at least 12 times as many in November
Professor John Robertson OBA Alerted by the above from MSM Monitor, I thought I’d find out the answer to those in Scotland who will insist – “Ayr it’s just as f*****g bad he…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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BMA Scotland humiliated and Scotsman condemned as only 5% of Consultant and SAS doctors respond to their survey with nearly 99% apparently not bothered or content
Professor John Robertson OBA The Scotsman yesterday had the above based on a survey published by the BMA (Scotland) trade union. How many consultants and speciality associates are there in NHS Scot…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Cost of dirt-digging Freedom of Information requests by Press, BBC Scotland and opposition party researchers, surge to around £2bn in one year as we approach Scottish Elction in May 2026
Professor John Robertson OBA From: Scottish Government’s Freedom of Information (FOI) compliance statistics: FOI release published yesterday, the above graph reveals a massive surge in FOIs a…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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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?
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 12:00 AM
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Scotland’s lower taxes attracting skilled workers, lower living costs and better environment for families, driving flight from rest of UK
Professor John Robertson OBA From Scotland’s Population 2024 – The Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends published yesterday, the above graph and: Scotland’s pop…
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services beat 90% target for fourth time to media silence and still not reported by BBC Scotland 24 hours later!
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services beat 90% target for fourth time to media silence
Percentage of patients who started treatment in CAMHS within 18 weeks of referral, by quarter ending September 2021 – September 2025, NHS Scotland Professor John Robertson OBA From Child and …
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December 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Let’s be sure we learn this lesson from history as global uranium demand and Labour’s nuclear plans threaten the lives of the people of the Orkney Islands
Professor John Robertson OBA As Donald Trump’s push for increased uranium production stirs up community media across the USA, a reminder of the risks in Scotland too. From In These Times, yes…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM