Talking-up Scotland

@ProfJWR

If I repeat an earlier post it's because I'm rebutting another of the endless opposition party / MSM repeats quickly.

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

Popping up to support Peggie, the Herald's 'family values' correspondent: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/05/07/nic…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 8 h

‘I’d rather be a teacher in Scotland than England’ – research review confirms the sense in this talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/24/id-…

ProfJWR's tweet card. By JB The headline above is from Teachers Education Supplement magazine 2019 in an article about a teacher from England who came to work in Scotland. “Teachers have a far better time of i…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 11 h

Alex Salmond 'CLEARED' everywhere but in Pacific Quay!

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 11 h

Talking of water talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/24/tal…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Liz S Talking of water…..as in ‘uisge beatha’ the ‘water of life’……this below was on the UK Politics page but when you click onto the story it takes you to the Asia page of the …

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 14 h

BBC Scotland include this in their Front Page reviews to include Scotland in England doctor strikes today:

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 15 h

NHS Scotland treats 98% of urgent skin cancer cases within 31 days compared with only 82% in England but Herald platforms Sandesh Gulhane (Con) to misrepresent the data from a different report talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/24/nhs…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Professor John Robertson OBA From Cancer waiting times 1 January to 31 March 2025 published on 24 June 2025, the above table reveals target-busting performance by NHS Scotland in treating urgent ca…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 16 h

Independent Water Commission for England and Wales carefully avoids comparing customer satisfaction ratings which are much higher in Scotland: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/24/ind…

ProfJWR's tweet card. By stewartb The ‘Independent Water Commission Final Report’ (aka the Cunliffe report) published on July 21 has a lengthy section examining any possible relationship between water company ownership …

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · 16 h

Independent Water Commission for England and Wales makes multiple, substantive and favourably framed references to Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/24/ind…

ProfJWR's tweet card. By stewartb The water industry is the news again. On July 21, the ‘Independent Water Commission Final Report’ (aka the Cunliffe report) was published. Given it dodged the issue of nationalisa…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 23

Urgent advice needed talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/23/urg…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 23

There will be no race riots in Scotland this summer talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/23/the…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Professor John Robertson OBA The UK media, above, are clear in their uncritical acceptance of the PM and the Deputy PM’s worries that riots will spread across the ‘UK’ again this …

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 23

Two rape appeals make the headlines in the media but this remarkable big story is never told: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/06/25/if-…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

Staff at Herald terrified by suggestion that being 'seriously embarrassing' could be come a crime. Several Scottish Labour MPs thought to be considering their futures.

ProfJWR's tweet image. Staff at Herald terrified by suggestion that being 'seriously embarrassing' could be come a crime. Several Scottish Labour MPs thought to be considering their futures.

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

The evidence once more that Portobello beach was not polluted and that this Labour MP is a liar for the second time: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/05/10/to-…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Professor John Robertson OBA Another ‘Scottish’ Labour MP, Chris Murray, son of a Labour member of the Lords, Margaret Curran, feeds an English Labour minister with lies about Scotland …

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

SNP minister writes to correct UK Labour minister's lies on water quality but is completely ignored by BBC Scotland and STV, despite them having reported the lies unchecked in the first place talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/22/snp…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Professor John Robertson OBA Having lied bare-faced on the Channel 4 News, last night, to claim that water pollution levels in Scotland are worse than they are in England, UK Environment Secretary …

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

In the Herald today posing as a working-class activist, what McKenna really is: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/05/31/kev…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Image – Gordon Terris – ‘Not having green at traffic lights is part of our proud culture, Kevin. That an Irish name McKenna?” After reading I walked by-election streets and …

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

Why the Herald today gloating about ferries built faster in Turkey stinks: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/19/why…

ProfJWR's tweet card. From STV on 28th March 2024, as a media frenzy risked the future of commercial shipbuilding in the Clyde, just to attack the SNP Government, in support of the 2024 General Election Labour campaign:…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

If Nigel Farage is wrong on 'UK' crime, he's even more wrong on crime in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/22/if-…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian yesterday, the above and evidence that Farage is a bit off in his use of statistics on ‘UK’ crime. Will they survive a collision with the ev…

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Talking-up Scotland@ProfJWR · Jul 22

As resident (junior) doctor strikes loom in NHS England, SNP settlement praised by BMA means NHS Scotland set to avoid thousands of excess deaths again talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/22/as-…

ProfJWR's tweet card. Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: In a letter to the NHS chief executive, Sir Jim Mackey, the BMA council chair, Dr Tom Dolphin, and the deputy council chair, Dr Em…

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