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Stop watching the news Because the news contrives to frighten you To make you feel small and alone To make you feel that your mind isn't your own

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 8m
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If they tell you there’s ‘sheer terror’ in Scotland too, here’s your answer
Across the BBC in the UK today, the above warnings but all quiet in the media operating in Scotland. So, if someone tells you it’ll be just the same in Scotland or if, as is common, they thin…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10h
Talking-up Scotland Crowdfunder September 2026 I’ll leave the crowdfunder open but, with some considerable personal relief, I won’t be pushing it in your faces again, in blog or social media posts, until next February.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 14h
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Next time you’re told the Scottish Government is failing to replace inflammable cladding here’s the evidence, six times for emphasis, why it’s not necessary in Scotland
In the National today, the above, and a report based entirely on events in England with no mention of the somewhat obvious fact that there have never been towering infernos in Scotland despite 6 to…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 16h
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For 69 years, a nuclear plant ‘spewed radiation’ over nearby Preston Lancashire and over the border into Scotland but unlike in the USA no one compensated for higher rates of brain, lung, and other ca...
From Bloomberg yesterday, the above, and: Before the crowdfunder finishes tomorrow, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at:Crowdfunder at:  by…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 16h
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UK Labour promises a tiny 2.2% increase in tree planting in a sad effort to catch John Swinney’s 35 million tree lead
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 16h
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Far more Scots using pre-school childcare and far more satisfied with it
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 21h
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GB Grid ? Well if it pans out to be anything like Labour’s GB Energy, then we should not hold our breath
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 22h
There is no 'crisis' in maternity services in Scotland much as the Scotsman may wish there were. Here is the truth: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/09/07/n...
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Nottingham, Sussex, Shrewsbury and now Leeds – Why England’s national maternity scandal is not coming to Perth or anywhere in Scotland
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 22h
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Celtic Exit poll finds Yes rises to almost 60% as national civic movements meet.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 22h
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Donate to Help Get My Book Published: The Union That Democracy Forgot, organized by Mark Saunders
Help Me Bring My Book to Print Hello, I’m Mark Saun… Mark Saunders needs your support for Help Get My Book Published: The Union That Democracy Forgot
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23h
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He says the triple lock on the state pension will go by 2030, ‘to help pay for a new national care service FOR ENGLAND.’ Will you support that, Scottish pensioners? ‘Barnett! Do you trust that?
On Newsnight, last night, the above was clear with the implication that Scottish pensioners will be impoverished to pay a new national care service in England. Before the crowdfunder finishes tomor…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who says good news cannot be news? Some faith in human nature restored - do away with peak fares and earn more - www.thenational.scot/news/2659168...
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How much money has ScotRail made from its minimum fare scheme?
SCOTRAIL'S minimum fare scheme has led to a major fall in ticketless travel and a significant uptick in revenue, The National can reveal.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Scotland heading for massive increase in renewables electricity generation in 2026 to generate 4 times more per head than England
At the midway point, Scotland has already generated far more renewables electricity than in previous years. With only 1 day left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and ge…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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In just one three-month period, 3 784 (96%) of 3 993 referred drug-users began treatment within three weeks and one third of them in only one week
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Primary Care Walk In Centres traffic soars ten times in just first 6 months of pilot
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Scotland’s longer NHS waits plummet by three-quarters in last two years
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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In just three months more than 300 cancer patients treated on time in Scotland who would not have been had they lived in England
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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As Police Scotland send officers to help in Northern Ireland for the third time, how the Scottish Government has made them ‘formidable’ and the only UK force able to help with such ‘uncommon’ demands
In the National two days ago, the above and: This is the third time in recent history. With only 1 day left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, dail…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Headlining a single but common rural care home placing to platform local Tory MSP and the untrustworthy Lisa Summers
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Top research bodies reveal Scotland’s care system is years ahead of any plans Andy Burnham has
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Former social worker and therapeutic animal farm owner in Brittany is platformed by media to attack ‘Sturgeon’s care promise and downplay life-saving achievements
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. England’s care system based on unregulated companies making cash stopped in Scotland because of Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘promise’ in 2016
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Short video – Shock as drug deaths among young plummet in Scotland but not in England or Wales
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Real crisis in NHS England as they report 198 times as many critical incidents than in Scotland in just one year
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Last call – Help Talking-up Scotland keep going for another six months rebutting the lies and revealing the truth
Scotland’s movement for independence faces massive disinformation from Unionist politicians and their media chums. Our task, since 2014, up to 20 000 times since then and currently surging to…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gerry Rafferty International Airport? Where you get stuck in the middle of queue? What happened to Charlie the Goal International after Charlie Nicholas and in the style of Charles de Gaulle International in Paris?
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Think, Andrew! If a Scottish teacher has 29.6% fewer pupils than a Welsh teacher which one’s headteacher should be able to manage reduced contact time better?
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Cancer is a concern with increasing nuclear power in Iowa and everywhere else especially in Scotland
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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How Scotland’s drug deaths title owes much to Liverpool and to Burnham’s Manchester
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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BBC Scotland hiding Alex Cole Hamilton’s misogyny again?
Alex, that lovely guy? Surely not but then…. With only 3 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: Crowdfunder at:  O…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Labour’s small modular reactor strategy looks hopeless as Chinese prototype barely hits 20% productivity and French blow cold on whole thing
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real crisis in NHS England as they report 198 times as many critical incidents than in Scotland in just one year:
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shock as drug-related drug deaths among young plummet in Scotland while still rising in England & Wales
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Scotland’s ambulances are between 2 and 3 times faster than in England, thousands of times but Daily Record repeats the same one case to to deflect you with
The Daily Record above today repeating a story from 2025. With only 3 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: Crowdfunder at:&…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Scottish midwives have lower absence rates than police officers and this merely ‘circumstantial’ evidence of a ‘crisis’ does not survive a collision with the real ‘forensic’ facts
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Violence against women and girls in Scotland – a fraction of the cases but several times the media interest to keep us down
women and girls launches today…On average, more than 200 reports of violent crimes against women and girls are made here every day. The above BBC Scotland story is an insert in their repeated…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Scotland has far far fewer homes at risk of flooding after 19 years of SNP leadership
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reposted for greater attention to this shocking objective measure of just how resilient NHS Scotland is in contrast to NHS England riven by multiple critical incidents more than 200 in a year in which Scotland saw only one! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/09/27/i...
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In one year NHS England declared 217 times as many critical and major incidents as NHS Scotland did
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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In one year NHS England declared 217 times as many critical and major incidents as NHS Scotland did
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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You may be wondering what on earth the ‘marching season’ is all about?
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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PM stupidly rejects drugs decriminalisation after Swinney correctly backs it based on the evidence from Portugal that it works
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ferret attacks SNP based on work of ‘Luke de Pulford’ a Tory ‘human rights campaigner’ who only sees ‘atrocity crimes by both sides’ in Gaza
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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History tells us that Burnham’s first-time buyers scheme will be funded by robbing from the poor
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Fire and Water! CalMac ferry-user group thought to be safe
From the Sun today, the above, and: THIS is the jaw-dropping moment a huge inferno rips through a ferry off the coast of a British holiday hotspot sparking a frantic evacuation. Shocking footage sh…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Drug related deaths among the young plummet in Scotland but climb in England & Wales to herald the end of Scotland’s dark reputation before long
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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European Union Drugs Agency – drug deaths ‘must be understood as underestimations’ (as in England) proving that Scotland is only the ‘Drug Death Accurate Reporting’ capital of Europe
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Something to be proud of! www.facebook.com/reel/2304546...
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Huge surge in child exploitation – carrying drugs in body cavities and sexual abuse – by English county lines drug gangs in Scotland
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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‘Thousands of opioid deaths missed off official figures’ in England & Wales thanks to errors ‘not present in Scotland’
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Researchers prove that Scotland’s drug death surge was the simple and tragic consequence of the UK Conservative Government’s brutal austerity strategy from 2012 to 2019
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