Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

Mark Adams wouldn’t know a left hook from a fish hook, yet here he is talking about men being allowed to box women. It is demonstrably unfair and dangerous, what are the IOC doing ?? https://t.co/HMS7bkJrVI — Barry McGuigan (@ClonesCyclone) July 31, 2024 Well said, Barry McGuigan! Allowing men into women's boxing is a complete insult to sporting values and fair competition!    

BREAKING: 🇶🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸 Qatar Prime Minister: “How can negotiations succeed if one side kills the mediator?” pic.twitter.com/9tOqTPD7YA — ADAM (@AdameMedia) July 31, 2024 Q. How can negotiations succeed if one side kills the mediator? A. How can hostage negotiations succeed if the mediator is financing and supporting the kidnappers?   

Gandalf the Grey - takes one in the nuts from his own side while taking part in in an attack on the police in Southport! I really shouldn’t have laughed as many times as I did at this. I’m a bad bad person right now. 😂 https://t.co/lFq5KrssTP — TheFamousArtistBirdyRose (@TheFamousArtBR) July 30, 2024  

Why are people’s pets catered for - but NOT women…? pic.twitter.com/mcVBGq8Sag — Claire Bear👁☘️🇮🇪 💜🤍💚 🫀 (@claire88424030) July 26, 2024 Fair comment from Claire Bear - women are relegated to a sub category below people's pets!  But why didn't the keep the women's single sex rest room and designate the men's All Gender?

Factual piece from Sean. In my opinion it’s a dereliction of duty of care to allow biological males to fight biological females. Boxers who failed gender tests at world championships cleared to compete at Olympics | Paris Olympic Games 2024 | The Guardian https://t.co/CrDLKJoErN — Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) July 29, 2024 The bigwigs who run the Olympic Games are about to make a mockery of women's sport by allowing two men to take part in the women's boxing event. Two men who were disqualified from taking part in the 2023 women's world boxing championship.  The IOC's decision is a calculated insult to fair competition - where will this nonsense end? The Olympic Games. #OlympicGames Where a convicted child rapist is allowed compete in beach volleyball & where two men - because that's what they are: MEN - are preparing to beat the living sh*t out of two women in a boxing ring. What enlightened times we live in. #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/xixwngSo

As someone who fed a baby and watched her grow just from my milk, I find this desperately, desperately sad. What has society done to young women to make them hate themselves so much. Women deserve so much better. pic.twitter.com/5YcySW5PyJ — Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) July 25, 2024 Mental health issues are not solved by encouraging people to have irreversible surgery on healthy body parts.

When I lied on my resume to get the job🤣 pic.twitter.com/Qqu30kbFBZ — Out of Context Human Race (@NoContextHumans) July 29, 2024 Not everything goes to plan in elite sport! 

A law that forces everyone in society to pretend that a man is a woman is not a law that works in society, or reality. pic.twitter.com/CX5K95W5Zj — Sall Grover (@salltweets) July 29, 2024 A law that forces society to pretend that a man is a woman - is just as absurd as a law that insists the earth is flat, that storks deliver babies or the moon is made of green cheese!

Covid used to be the excuse for sky-high waiting lists, but the latest figures show outpatient treatment waits are up by 10% from the same point last year - more than double the size of the list before the pandemic. Public Health Scotland recorded more than 690,000 waits for treatment for non-urgent care as of 31 March and more than 8000 waits over two years - and 85,000 waits of over a year for either an outpatient appointment or to start treatment. In July 2022 Humza Yousaf  laid out plans  to "eradicate" long waits for treatment - including ending two-year waits for inpatient treatment by September of that year, 18-month waits by Sept '23 and those over a year by Sept '24.

The SNP are good at empty promises to drive down waiting times, but the reality is that more and more Scots are being forced to pay privately to look after their health. 

Is it just me - am I the only one who thinks John Swinney and his former health minister, Humza Yousaf, have spent more time talking about Gaza during the election than they have on tackling the dreadful NHS waiting times? 

  Scotland's NHS waiting times are a national scandal. During his brief time as First Minister Humza Yousaf promised to get on top of the problem, but things are worse than ever with more and more Scots being forced to pay privately for much needed treatment.

As you’re watching #Paris2024 @Olympics , remember Karina Pritika, 23, a former rhythmic gymnast from Israel, who was was murdered while attending the Nova music festival on October 7. pic.twitter.com/AAdvYILeyU — Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) July 27, 2024 I wonder what kind of threat this young woman (Karina Pritka) posed to the heavily armed, 'freedom fighters' of Hamas when they attacked the Nova music festival on October 7 2023? 

Jim Sillars is spot on about the dreadful personality cult which allowed Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon to run the SNP as a 'Mr & Mrs' tag team for years. What's astonishing is that SNP members - party activists, councillors, MSPs and MPs - turned a blind eye to things for so long  which helps explain why the SNP is in such a terrible mess today.

Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP were well warned about the dangers of recruiting Cameron Downing as the party's Equalities Officer. Downing has since been jailed for six years.

  The SNP just can't shake off the party's reputation for scandal and sleaze. Because what's needed is an independent investigation into the bullying, intolerant culture which took grew up while  Nicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell had complete control of the party.  Trade unions have had their issues with bullying in recent years, but the only solution is for someone from outside the organisation to assess and report on the scale of a problem which continues to bedevil the SNP.   

LMAO WHO DID THIS pic.twitter.com/6BsBQRvhKB — Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) July 27, 2024 Fair comment on the Paris Olympics - the opening ceremony was a true French 'folie'!

French Olympic committee: pic.twitter.com/CP2SlhRV4P — Róisín Michaux (@RoisinMichaux) July 27, 2024 Good joke from Róisín Michaux - the Olympics opening ceremony honoured some of the giants of French literature, but the odd bollock was also dropped with lots of strange men masquerading as women!   

  I fell asleep watching the Olympics opening ceremony in last night - long-winded, pretentious and with far too many men pretending to be women.

Graham Crosby, Steven Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young (CSNY) with 'Teach Your Children' from their 1970 album Deja Vu.

What a terrible sight - a woman at a pro-Palestine rally in Dublin teaches her child Jew-hate  by stamping on flowers left outside the Israeli Embassy.

Great parenting pic.twitter.com/mcEMHCIHS9 — Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) November 1, 2023 Parents teach their children how to be unbelievably greedy, bad citizens and poor neighbours

US democrats keep sucking up to the "Palestinians" hoping it will win them Islamic votes at home But Palestinians keep telling their truth They hate the USA just as much as they hate the Jews pic.twitter.com/N3XlXmnUlE — Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) July 25, 2024 Interesting, if disturbing, post on what children get taught by adults.