Donald Trump and the deconstruction of America Don't let the daily outrages obscure the big picture.

Don’t let the daily outrages obscure the big picture.

This is how we will eradicate child poverty in Scotland:

👶 £40 Scottish Child Payment for babies under one
🍎 Free breakfast clubs for every primary school
🎈 Expanded, flexible childcare
🤝 Helping more parents into work
🏡 Investing to build more affordable homes

A leaked secret memo that Starmer sent to his cabinet says that the UK Government should directly spend in the devolved nations "even when devolved governments may oppose this.”

Labour has no respect for Scotland’s Parliament or Government.

It’s time for independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Devolution has run out of road This always happens, every time I decide to take a bit of time off, a big news story breaks and it’s back to the keyboard. On Tuesday, a Labour government memo was leaked which proves that Ke…

With a leaked Labour government memo revealing Starmer's plans to override the devolved governments and impose is will on Scotland and Wales even in devolved matters, devolution has run out of road. It's independence or incorporation into a unitary UK.

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Scotland’s stroke survival rate is roughly the same as that in England and the EU average, better than that in the USA but worse than Ireland after independence Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Herald’s top ferry correspondent tod…

Scotland’s stroke survival rate is roughly the same as that in England and the EU average, better than that in the USA but worse than Ireland after independence talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/28/s...

If you have a Royal Family, you have deference.

If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system.

If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power."

Why would anyone want that at all?

Since the SNP came into government, Homicide rates have dropped by 61%, to the lowest since records began

2007-08: 115 homicide victims 2024-25: 45 homicide victims

🇬🇧That doesn’t deter the unionists at The Sunday Post choosing to publish this misleading Front Page during their HR26 campaign🇬🇧

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Your regular reminder this is why you shouldn’t vote Labour in Scotland in May this year.

SNP & Green remain committed to no tuition fees in Scotland

My niece just graduated as a Doctor (was at Aberdeen) and is debt free

What was it about Labour that attracted the Easdale brothers to donate a 6 figure sum to them? Could it be because they own McGills bus company and don’t want it to be controlled by Glasgow city council?

BBC Scotland deliberately misleads on hospital-acquired infections – there was no ‘fatal infection’ nor did ‘infection lead to death’ BBC Scotland returns once more to the tragic death of a child cancer patient. This case has run for nine years now, during which Anas Sarwar has cynically appeared with the parents, platformed wide…

BBC Scotland deliberately misleads on hospital-acquired infections – there was no ‘fatal infection’ nor did ‘infection lead to death’ talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/18/b...

Definitely team excitement here.

Statement on the ongoing situation in Venezuela.

You are an inspiration, long may you keep yapping away

Contrary to the Herald scare and tasteless images Scotland provides far more accommodation for the homeless than Welsh Labour or Birmingham City Labour and 50 times more than Scottish Labour ever did Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald has an exploitative image of someone on the streets …

Reposted in response to shamefully dishonest Daily Record story today on homelessness which is no more than a Labour election leaflet
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BBC Scotland again bigging up Reform UK's council by-election win in West Lothian. It's the second time BBC Scotland has publicised it. No mention of the winning candidate's questionable past or the scandals besetting the party.

BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.

‘…we learned that Scotland is perfectly capable of confronting a global crisis without Westminster’s tutelage, and moreover can make a far better job of it than Westminster. That’s the real lesson of the pandemic for Scotland.’

Starmer’s Labour enables fascism When the race baiting far right criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and the hard right Reform UK are praising Labour’s policies, you know that something has gone profoundly wrong in a party which …

My latest blog piece, about Shabana Mahmood pandering to the basest instincts of the far right and why it's doomed to failure

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Even when Scotland gets a global thumbs-up financially the SNP get zero credit In Scotland, any news – even good news – is subjected to partisan point-scoring. It means we repeatedly fail to have the debates we really need,…

Even when Scotland is praised on the world stage the SNP gets no credit

Financial agencies applaud Scotland’s economy, but all we get is sneering. Govts need held to account but credit where credit is due

It shows how meaningless the quality of our debate has become

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

How can the UK survive when most of its member states want to leave? YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Starmer needs to learn that Holyrood won’t be pushed around Scotland’s colonial governor, Wee Dougie Alexander, Labour’s answer to the toxic oil slick that is Michael Gove, has said that Westminster would “take an SNP majority [at Holyrood…

My latest blog piece

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‘Frankly incredible!’ UK National Audit Office reveals NHS England and Ireland are paying out for clinical negligence at FOUR TIMES and TWICE the level of NHS Scotland Professor John Robertson OBA Many thanks to stewartb for alerting us to this and for the opening words in the headline above. NOTE – I’m unsure of how to compare the far more numerous b…

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I feel a similar sense of urgency to challenge the narrative like I did in 2020. This time it’s the anti-migrant pandemic. We shouldn’t just duck down &let it infect almost everyone in the hope of ‘herd immunity’ making it eventually pass. It’s totally preventable if enough of us care to prevent it.

Holyrood 2026, it’s up to all of us now While we were busy with a visit from my husband’s family from the United States, the SNP party conference was taking place in Aberdeen. The party came out of the conference united behind the …

My latest blog piece, Holyrood 2026, it's up to all of us now.

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Indeed. And it would be good if the current speed limits were lowered

Have a look through my website wgsaraband.com and get yourself some handmade, unique art made with all the strengths, faults and emotions of an actual human being.

Added bonus of supporting an independent Portuguese-Scottish artist 😉

Dr Iain Kennedy linked to Labour campaign and Prof Curtice might be underestimating the intelligence of fleeing Labour voters Professor John Robertson OBA, Former Faculty Research Ethics Chair The word ‘ethics’ does not appear in Prof Curtice’s CV. Should I see if Dr Kennedy has any such interests? Shoul…

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About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal…

But why only Michelle Mone?

£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk

So where’s the rest of them?

And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

There are many alarming things about Starmer's ID plan, he's creating instruments of state surveillance which he'll hand over to the far right after the next general election. If there's a pro indy majority in Holyrood after 2026, ScotGov needs to hold an indyref & dare Starmer to stop them.