More than 400 000 apprenticeships funded by Scottish Government since 2008

A bit tired at end of day, I’ve just reposted this comment and must leave you to use the link at the bottom to see the sources. Thanks, John By Legerwood Apprenticeships in Scotland. Since th…

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‘Vaccination rates are highest when parents regularly interact with medics’ but England has lost 45% of its health visitors

By stewartb To follow up on the vaccination topic, the BBC News article also has this: ‘… all of the public health experts who spoke to the BBC said that whilst anti-vax social media sentiment play…

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Rupert Lowe and the NHS in a badly ‘Restored Britain’

Anonymous Talking of healthcare I saw this online from Rupert Lowe in a post on ‘X’ dated 5 August: “Under a Restore Britain Government, private healthcare costs will become tax-deductibl…

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Glasgow misses Scottish Government target but still has massive, 135 times more, genuinely affordable social rent homes than Manchester

From BBC Scotland yesterday: Targets for the delivery of new affordable homes in Glasgow were missed last year, with construction hampered by rising costs. The Scottish government provided £127.75m…

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CalMac’s future lies in restoring and growing the Clyde shipyards again

Perhaps thinking that any bad news on CalMac ferries serves the same purpose, to damage the reputation of the SNP Government, the Scotsman serves ours well – to make a case for the Cyde. From…

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Inexperienced patient safety commissioner sides with tabloid’s anecdotal evidence against the reliable factual evidence of NHS Scotland’s superior maternity services

‘Karen Titchener, who has more than two decades of senior leadership experience within the NHS [in England], has been nominated as Scotland’s first Patient Safety Commissioner’ In…

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Even before today’s results Scotland’s schools narrowed attainment gaps across the board and ‘most deprived’ 14/15 year-olds made major strides in literacy

The gutter press today, above, with the same old un-educated claims. The facts: Note how the those pupils from deprived areas improved by 10% while those least deprived barely did so. From Ach…

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Bias by the omission of really good news for Scotland – Record university places for Scots students and acceptances for most deprived young people at new high which also understates the true numbers

With the barest of mentions in the above report, now about to drop off the page after less than 24 hours and not a word in the press front pages, this highly significant news is being omitted becau…

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706 wildfires across England & Wales neither covered nor politicised

Grok AI get the year wrong at the top – 2026 so far, see below As of 28 July 2026, fire and rescue services in England and Wales had responded to 706 wildfires so far in the year (208 of them…

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Shadowy Secretary of State for Scotland cannot read teacher numbers trend as it ‘plummets’ up the way

In the BBC Scotland analysis of today’s exam results this ridiculous claim un-moderated by the editor: Scottish Conservative MP Andrew Bowie said “plummeting teacher numbers and spirall…

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Hospital at Home service saved more than £60m, report claims

A report was released by Healthcare Improvement Scotland on Tuesday.

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Contrary to Jackie Baillie's lies the Scottish Government will build a new Monklands hospital.

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Contrary to Jackie Baillie’s lies, Scottish Government will deliver a new Monklands hospital but at a fair price for taxpayers

Scottish Labour and their wee pals at the Daily Record suggesting the SNP Government knew before the 2026 Holyrood Election that they would cancel the construction of a new Monklands hospital after…

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There is no vaccination crisis in Scotland

From BBC InDepth today, the above and: Over the last 15 years, childhood vaccination rates have fallen across Britain. The share of five-year-olds in England who have received a four-in-one jab (wh…

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Scottish Labour must be confronted on their nuclear strategy as highly dangerous water shortages threaten nuclear power station’s cooling system across Europe and Hungary comes ‘within millimetres’ of...

Once more thanks to Frances McKie for alerting us to this video. As the mighty Danube dries up in the heatwave, there are desperate measures to keep some goods flowing and enough water to cool powe…

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Unregistered children’s homes in England & Wales creating a ‘perfect storm’ for criminals exploiting young people are prevented in Scotland because of Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘promise’ in 2016

Yesterday from Policing Insight, the above and: New research by Anglia Ruskin University into the risks of child exploitation in unregistered children’s homes in England and Wales highlights that w…

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37% fewer crimes yet more police officers than in the last days of Labour

From Police officer quarterly strength statistics: 30 June 2026 published today: there were 16,402 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 30 June 2026 police officer numbers decr…

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Drug-related hospital admissions plummet to lowest level since records began, treatment service meets 90% target for last 15 years and world-first opioid overdose reversal programme enters 8th year bu...

From BBC Scotland this morning, the above and: A residential drug service in Glasgow is to close its doors after a long-running financial dispute with its council-owned landlord. The service run by…

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E-bike injuries in Scotland only one sixth of the UK level after SNP limits government-backed trials

Headlining on BBC Breakfast but not being liked to comparable problems in Scotland by BBC Scotland, here’s why: When you compare the number of casualties involving e-bikes. In 2024, the UK, s…

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No liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap yet in Scotland it’s a stick to beat the SNP with

Maoist China in 1960s closes attainment gap by simply sending middle-class students to the fields and not letting them sit the exams at all! BBC Scotland yesterday bypassed evidence of the attainme…

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Only tiny 2% of terror referrals are in Scotland to rebut Labour scare story

In the deeply untrusted Herald yesterday, the above, and: Scotland’s only ethnic-minority and Muslim MP has called on the Scottish Government to fund a cohesion strategy in the wake of last m…

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5 Disadvantages Of Nuclear Energy (And Why AI Might Make Them Harder To Ignore) - BGR

Nuclear energy could help power the AI boom, but these five disadvantages raise concerns over waste, safety, water use, weapons, and long timelines.

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From the wetter parts of Britain to the places that ‘actually need it’

By Liz S Talking of “Fire” there is another huge problem in certain parts of the UK State , that is where droughts are also currently happening , all as a result of th…

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There is no trusted journalism in Scotand

The Herald is owned by a corporation and serves the interests of that corporation including its preference for the stability of the UK within NATO. The empirical evidence is clear and can be truste…

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Environment body admits Dounreay (Caithness) decades-long nuclear leak cannot EVER be cleaned up

The above, which I missed 15 years ago, popped up in social media recently to shock me with the candour of the headline. More on it below, after this. Last October 2025 we had: Inspectors raise Sco…

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A ‘Box of Frogs’ plan for Scottish Independence

By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman”  And Now For Something Completely Different A number of the anti-Scottish Independence media outlets have started reporting on a recent ‘proposal’ by…

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As wildfire approaches Suffolk nuclear power station, the heatwave starts to shut down nuclear power across Europe and Scottish Labour’s strategy ‘goes up in flames’

Thanks to Frances McKie for alerting us to this. Electricité de France (EDF) shut down the Golfech-2 nuclear reactor in southern France amid a heat wave pushing temperatures toward 40°C in parts of…

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The MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven falls far from Jimmie Reid’s tree, to work with tabloid media rape gang fantasists and making the tea for her Chinese spy husband

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON In the Guardian and on X today, the above and:…

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Forget the Med, Scotland is the perfect holiday destination

Balmy days, island havens and festivals galore make this northern wonderland an ideal option this summer

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Hundreds evacuated after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station

Major incident declared, with Sizewell B power station monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve badly hit

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