Talking-up Scotland

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

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

A misleading lie - 99% is rainwater, surface runoff, road run-off, “grey” water from sinks, showers, washing machines.

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

In England 0% of estuaries and coastal waters score ‘high’ for ecological condition compared to 100% in Scotland where 100% of rivers are also clean but only BBC Scotland has this smelly news to suggest otherwise https://t.co/vfno8vl4uV

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

After 20 years of SNP government protecting NHS Scotland from the worst is it today not Scotland’s shining achievement? https://t.co/IPHgs7VqRS

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

National Wealth Fund to support Scottish economy with £1bn boost for windfarm 270 miles off Berwick-on-Tweed but only 29 miles off Norfolk https://t.co/HqKXml1AVM

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Sickening Ian Murray playing to his London audience about Scottish tightness when the facts say it's they who are the tightest by far https://t.co/Eleu9v7buV

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Babies receiving some breastfeeding surges 26% from the last days of Labour in 2007 to improve the health of babies and mothers and reduce inequalities in health https://t.co/dShrImapWx

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

30% fewer heart-related deaths in 2025 than in 2007 despite 300 000 (36%) more over-65s today - where is the praise, even coverage for NHS Scotland? https://t.co/iRy1jcDonj

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Who has ordered the branch manager to U-turn? https://t.co/1nv5qDmckt

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Housing supply? Glasgow leaves Liverpool and Manchester in their dust https://t.co/Q6lY4WwqsU

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Scottish Labour MP fawns over PM despite e-bike injury and death being six times higher in England than in SNP Scotland https://t.co/zjeN1YiGNo

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Scotland has clearer, more generous approach to adult social care than the chaotic system in England, an international outlier in using means-testing to exclude people entirely https://t.co/6Fq2fezGsY

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Further evidence that the Clyde will build Royal Navy warships for many years after independence https://t.co/ly9TjqANne

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

The Western Link 2 from Ayrshire to Wales and the West Midlands - a colonial project with no sign of a full, completed independent expert impact assessment https://t.co/XJzUHXLCkw

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

I must be deid - One hour after posting in x, FB and bsky - not one share!

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

My last ever non-radio performance with apologies for the Nazi haircut https://t.co/OTp1yBPWc7

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

A reminder of how Thatcher used Scotland's oil wealth to pay for mass unemployment, tax cuts for the better off and to pay for the costs of destroying our industries https://t.co/zxvYBb6SzE

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Unlike many European countries that are cautious about screen time and mobile phone use in schools, Estonia encourages the use of smartphones for learning https://t.co/17HYFnnz3x

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

What would AJ Cronin make of the relocation of the Children’s and Maternity/Neonatal Hospitals from the bucolic site at Yorkhill to the sewage surrounded Shieldhall cesspit 101 years later? What novel would he write? ‘The Shitadel’?” https://t.co/B08jYgE8Nz

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Smartphones are making our kids smarter - Dare to be different Scotland https://t.co/MnTH6VCIm7