Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

Exactly a year ago today, Humza Yousaf told #BBCSundayShow that he hoped the Glen Sannox would be in service by autumn 2023. Today, Kate Forbes was unable to confirm to the Scottish Parliament that the vessel will be handed over to CMAL by July 2024. https://t.co/ZxFST1RhHH — Sam Taylor (@staylorish) June 25, 2024 In June 2023 Humza Yousaf (remember him?) said hopefully that the first of the SNP's 'ghost ferries' would be sailing the high seas by autumn 2023. Another year on and the Glen Sannox is still not in service. 

“When women like JK Rowling do speak up, I think it's important we engage seriously with the arguments that she's making.” @WesStreeting says he’s “pretty depressed” at JK Rowling’s comments that Labour has ‘abandoned’ women. @StigAbell | https://t.co/pY686PBVgB pic.twitter.com/VDZpDgj4No — Times Radio (@TimesRadio) June 24, 2024 The problem for Labour is that everything JK Rowling is saying about women's rights is true - self-ID is an attack not just of women, but on reality, reason, science and observable truth.  Men cannot magically transform themselves into women - it's absurd and akin to arguing the world is flat not round.

Kemi Badenoch spoke with all the players in the sex versus gender debate when she was the UK Equalities Minister. Meanwhile the SNP minister Christina McKelvie was on social media making bogus claims about TWAW (Trans Women Are Women) being the law https://t.co/qRttG0AHzg pic.twitter.com/xcL4Ek9YpT — Mark Irvine (@Mark1957) June 25, 2024 David Tennant behaves like an ignorant celebrity - tells a woman to 'shut up' and stop speaking out in support of women's rights and single sex spaces. What an arse!    

I made some plum compote the other day - with star anise, cinnamon and a splash of vodka to give it some added va va voom. Goes really well with pork dishes and also with yoghurt or ice cream!

Private Eye puts its finger on John Swinney's woeful, uninspiring election campaign: 'Forget how terrible the SNP are at running things - once we have Indy everything will run like clockwork!' 

More election bumph through the post from Martin Rhodes, Labour's election candidate in Glasgow North.  Now Martin says he wants to hear my views - yet he won't respond to my requests to explain where he stands on the Cass Review, women's rights and self-ID

This FAFO video begs to be watched over and over again pic.twitter.com/3G1j4xXCw9 — Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) June 22, 2024 The biter gets bit - an Iranian man sets himself on fire after trying torch the Israeli flag. What a hoot!

The Islamist ghouls of Gaza murdered, raped and kidnapped innocent Israelis on October 7 - but also took dead bodies hostage in a further insult to humanity! pic.twitter.com/3oL0kC9iGN — Mark Irvine (@Mark1957) June 24, 2024 On October 7 2023 the brave 'freedom fighters' of Hamas murdered Mohammed Alatrash, a Muslim Israeli Bedouin, before kidnapping the man's dead body back to Gaza.  Palestinians who support Hamas celebrate this barbaric behaviour as 'resistance'. 

"I wrote to Keir Starmer and spoke to him in person. I warned him about misogyny. He never replied." ✍️ @polblonde https://t.co/GnekxR3hxK — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 24, 2024 Team Starmer has apparently offered JK Rowling a meeting Labour to provide assurances over the protection of women-only spaces.  Sounds like a ploy to dampen things down during the election because Team  Starmer has been giving the rubber ear to other prominent Labour supporters including Joan Smith, a former Guardian columnist. Joan wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “That’s me done. I wrote to Keir Starmer and spoke to him in person. I warned him about misogyny. He never replied. “Labour has betrayed women with a raft of policies designed to appease trans-identified men. I don’t suppose Starmer cares , but I’ve resigned my membership today.”

The feverish desperation of progressives to see themselves as oppressed. pic.twitter.com/2Yqx8lDLRc — Brian Spilei (@BrianSpanner1) June 24, 2024 The Greens published, but then immediately deleted an embarrassing photo featuring only white people - to celebrate Windrush Day. Are the Greens as daft as they appear? 

Seems like the trade unions are reluctant to stand up for their members when it comes to women's rights to single sex spaces.  Now something similar happened during the fight for equal pay in Scotland's councils - unions failed to challenge and in some cases actively supported the discriminatory behaviour of employers. So maybe it's time to consider a grass roots 'no win no fee' campaign to sue employers for damages if they try to bully staff into accepting self-ID. Likewise, trade unions could also be in the firing line if they refuse to represent women members, who get bullied and discriminated against in this cowardly way. Self-ID Is Absurd - Where Are The Trade Unions? ( June 24, 2024 ) A group of women nurses stand up for their rights and say they want single sex spaces at work, so they don't have to get changed in front of men.  But where are the trade unions such as Unison and the RCN - why aren't they speaking up in support of their members? Grassroo

I suspect these nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital will become as famous as the Ford Dagenham women They’ve filed legal action against their Trust for sexual harassment and sex discrimination Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper & Joanne Bradbury pic.twitter.com/pEJgoceZu7 — teresa smith (@treesey) June 24, 2024 A group of women nurses stand up for their rights and say they want single sex spaces at work, so they don't have to get changed in front of men.  But where are the trade unions such as Unison and the RCN - why aren't they speaking up in support of their members? Grassroots union members don't support self-ID or this nonsense about men magically declaring themselves to be women!

JK Rowling explains why she is struggling to vote for Keir Starmer's Labour Party given his abysmal failure as leader to stand up for women's rights. Great article - #MeToo! JK Rowling: Labour has dismissed women like me. I’ll struggle to vote for it Keir Starmer has failed to convince me that his party has changed its position on the rights of women — it struggles to say what a woman is at all By JK Rowling - The Times On Thursday evening, I went to the best book launch I’ve ever attended, and I’m including all of the Harry Potter launches, crazily memorable though those were. This one took place in a large, old, wood-panelled room in the middle of Edinburgh, and the evening was so warm the windows were open, so we could hear the distant strains of bagpipes from the Royal Mile. I’d arrived straight off a plane from London, and when I got into the room I thought “damn, of course,” because most of the women there were wearing the suffragette colours: green, purple and white, and