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Hugh McIlvanney is often proclaimed as the greatest sportswriter of them all. Perhaps he always will be.
Having said that, and as proven by yet another beautifully penned article below, Jonathan Liew is not that far behind the great man.

This is what Westminster doesn't want you to read: The McCrone Report in full

This is what Westminster doesn't want you to read

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First rule of BBC Scotland Journalism?
"Headlines frame how readers interpret the content before they consume it.
Cognitive research shows that first impressions heavily influence interpretation. A headline shapes that first impression."

Decision-making is truly awful.

If you think the far-right rhetoric from the BBC before Gorten and Denton was sickening, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Indeed, when the disappointed bigots of the BBC eventually leave their darkened room today, the hate will be ramped up so much they'll make Goebbels seem distinctly philanthropic.

Judging by the muted coverage this morning on BBC and ITV, it's certainly a sad day for the bigots of Reform, Labour and their courtiers in the press.

There are two types of people in Scotland:
Those thick as mince Scots and English bigots who watch, listen and trust BBC Scotland News.
And those of us that don't.

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Property and violent crime in Scotland has fallen by 37% since 2008-09 based on statistics that go beyond just police reporting including responses from the public Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From the Safer Communities and Justice Statist…

Property and violent crime in Scotland has fallen by 37% since 2008-09 based on statistics that go beyond just police reporting including responses from the public talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/26/p...

Bit of a cop out response to Zack. Shouldn't you and your producers just confirm a date for the interview now?

The Daily Mail is.....

Mein Kampf for thick as mince little Englanders.

NHS Scotland makes ‘undeniable progress’ with 50% or more, cuts in longer waiting time lists but is completely ignored by BBC Scotland news editors Above, the plummeting ongoing waits after 52 weeks in NHS Scotland, for new outpatients and, on the right, for inpatients and day cases. These are dramatic, around 50%, and surely ‘newsworthy…

NHS Scotland makes ‘undeniable progress’ with 50% or more, cuts in longer waiting time lists but is completely ignored by BBC Scotland news editors talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/25/n...

Of all the things to call a "resort" in the Southern Highlands of Scotland, Flamingo Land is by far and away the most ridiculous.
Indeed, the application should have been binned when it first arrived by post.
"You're calling it what? Seriously? Sorry pal but you can feck right off with that pish."

There is no metric. Indeed, if he was CEO of any other plc - and the architect of the serious risks now facing Celtic FC (CCP) - he'd have been replaced by now. Simply not a leader, in any shape or form.

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🇬🇧 In 2017 Howard Simpson, the recently appointed ‘Head of News’ at bbc (Shortbread), attended a UK Gov meeting to discuss “Maintaining the Union”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We must understand that the bbc, british State Broadcaster, is fully engaged in an Information War on Scotland, and must be ready to fight back

Westminster’s great Scottish energy rip off In news that hasn’t appeared anywhere on BBC Scotland to my shock and surprise, that’s shock and surprise as in “I was shocked and surprised to learn that the Pope believes in god…

'With Westminster’s energy policy, Scotland gets the worst of all possible worlds, and the anti-Scottish independence parties and their branch offices in Scotland are quite happy with that. They serve the interests of their London masters.'
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Less a conspiracy, more of a political strategy. And let's not forget that Wilson's primary loyalty, above all else, is to Westminster and the Labour Party.

Wilson is taking his orders not from the Celtic board but from forces deep within the WM establishment. In other words, the GB must be silenced, at any cost, even Celtic FC's.

'Game changer' cancer vaccine marks landmark moment for Scottish science Jennifer Robertson became the first patient in Europe to receive the injection

A Scottish oncologist overseeing Europe’s first patient to receive a cancer vaccine in Dundee has said the injection could be a “game changer” for cancer treatment worldwide.

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Seriously bad calll to select Gilchrist. A slow, laborious lump of an accident just waiting to happen.

The choice facing Scotland is independence or fascism. A major new poll was published on Wednesday which confirms other recent polls in showing that Scots are on track to elect a pro-independence majority to Holyrood in May’s election. Even bette…

As a new poll puts the SNP within striking distance of winning a majority in May's Holyrood election and projects Reform UK as the largest anti-independence party, the choice facing Scotland has never been starker, Scottish independence or British fascism.

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Almost as good a tackler as Sam Prendergast.

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All of Canada right now...

#Olympics #IceHockey

Calmac Chief on Scotland’s 95% plus ferries – The facts that Scotland’s news media are shockingly and deliberately hiding from you, for political purposes – please share widely Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Thanks to Dave Lodge for sharing this with me. From CEO CalMac, Diane Burke, to all staff, in recent days: and: Note that all of this has been s…

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🤣 yes, the warning on the back of the package says that for the product to work effectively, the user has to suffer from delusional disorder, confirmation bias, overinflated ego and hypoarrogance.
Endorsed by Ugo Monye, apparently.

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My pal just told me that Amazon is selling England Rugby's Magic Prism - £9.99.
By all accounts, when an English journo or TV pundit looks through it, he can immediately declare - with certainty - that England is the greatest rugby nation of all time and odds on favourite to win the next World Cup.

Woody Guthrie knew!

Penned over 70 years ago, Guthrie tells the story of how he witnessed first-hand the horrendous racism of the Trump family.

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