Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth

I don’t want to shock anyone but it has been known for some politicians to be a touch careless with the truth. Sometimes

Controversial firm reported to Serious Fraud Office after senior executive ordered deletion of evidence of Labour Together’s smear campaign against journalists

Professor Catherine Happer leads Glasgow University’s acclaimed Media Group. She talks to our Writer at Large about why the national broadcaster…

A 2024 clip of Mehdi Hasan fact-checking Matt Goodwin has gone viral after he was selected as Reform's by-election candidate.

SCOTS would vote to leave the Union should an independence referendum be held tomorrow, a new poll has found ...

Some people are concerned about alleged risks from the Covid-19 vaccination. A new French study suggests they need not worry

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Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

We look at MPs’ links with Israel

Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: Professor  John Robertson OBA Many thanks once more, to Brenda Robb, for sharing this eviden…

Professor John Robertson OBA The above report, two days ago, in the Times, is just the latest in a stream of BMA Scotland activity which diverges from the BMA UK’s tendency to report favourab…

By stewartb I asked ChatGPT this question: ‘Is the poverty-related attainment gap as politicised by opposition political parties and the news media in England and Wales as in Scotland? And why? Thi…

Professor John Robertson OBA You’ve all seen the claims about increasing hospital falls figures from a Freedom of Information request by Scottish Labour, in an attempt to provide Jackie Baill…

By Liz S Labour are failing in what they promoted as being their main mission as the new UK government. Number one focus for them being “Growth” in the UK economy. On July 11th it was rep…

Professor John Robertson OBA The above is from Reported collisions on the A1 between Edinburgh and Lamberton: FOI release published today: I suspect the response has been a disappointment to Border…

New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion

There is little to choose in overall travelling time from Brodick in Arran to Glasgow, via Ardrossan or Troon. For the detail worked out, See: There is however a bloody good reason to prefer Troon …

By Professor John Robertson OBA Many thanks to AR for alerting me to this. Two days ago, the Times had an extended report, widely copied across the media and exciting Unionist voices, to suggest th…

Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Scotland South today: A woman has been charged after a police discovered heroin worth an estimated £180,000 during a car stop in Dumfries and Galloway. Officer…

The French far-right leader’s allies at home and abroad slammed the guilty verdict as antidemocratic.

Daily Mail, August 2024 By Liz S “More misery for car ferry customers as cancellations continue’ in English ‘scandal’ ferry system” Wow that sounds like a bit of a, checks bloody notes, “Catastroph…

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Why does it feel as if our shared reality is under assault – twisted by propaganda, ideology and manufactured doubt?

The refusal by the British press and politicians to touch revelations of serious criminality at The Sun tells us everything we need to know about how power really works in the UK

Gary Stevenson grew up poor, got rich in the City – then found himself wrestling with depression. Now he says he’s the only person on the left who really understands the British economy – and the peop...

It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.

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