Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

Polanski channels his inner David Brent as a member of the Lib Dems - rather than the Greens. Excruciating! David Brent https://t.co/oZcll6IyqS — Graham Linehan (@Glinner) October 22, 2025  

Gazans now face a choice - do free themselves form Hamas and build a peace, or go back to building terror tunnels?

The vast majority of Jews support the right of the Jewish people to have a Jewish homeland - and the modern state of Israel was created in 1948 after a two-thirds majority vote at the United Nations.   Yet the 'Jewish Voice' still pumps out this hateful propaganda?   

  So someone (most likely a trans activist) has complained to Blogger about my 'Bravo Julie Burchill!' post on the grounds it constitutes 'hate speech' Ludicrous I know, but there you are - here's a link to Julie's original article in Spiked Online: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/18/how-do-so-many-women-end-up-as-feminists-for-islam/ I have appealed to Blogger.  

Posie Parker gets top marks for exposing the nonsense of men declaring they have magically 'become women'. Giant Haystacks is not a haystack!  

I do hope the police in Wales have paid attention to the woeful policing of a women's rights event outside the Scottish Parliament back in September 2025. I'm afraid these male trans activists are out to harass and disrupt women who exercising their rights to free speech and freedom of assembly - idiot protesters should be kept well away not given police protection.       

Does this look like a ceasefire - or Hamas thugs carrying out an ISIS-inspired execution, silencing fellow Palestinians who object to their Mafia-like rule over Gaza? Fanatical Islamist groups are all the same - Hamas is no different to ISIS, Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad etc etc.  

Lisa Nandy tells it straight to the Birmingham MP behind the campaign to ban Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from their Champions League match with Aston Villa. Unlike other decisions taken by clubs or football authorities like Uefa, the initial Birmingham decision tarred all Israeli fans as hooligans which is nonsense and smacked of racism/antisemitism.   This from ⁦ @lisanandy ⁩ to the MP for Dewsbury and Batley. 💪 pic.twitter.com/caNx4nCLF0 — lee harpin (@lmharpin) October 20, 2025      

Hands up - w ho else thinks this photo resembles a Mark Rothko painting? The photo is from the Bay of Roses in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean coast just below Spain's border with France.

A very dignified statement from Maccabi Tel Aviv who have decided to decline the offer of tickets for their fans to attend the forthcoming Champions League match with Aston Villa in Birmingham. Many European clubs could make a similar statement about stamping out bad behaviour from a minority of their fan base, but how many teams in Arab/Muslim countries could say their first team squad consists of Muslims, Christians and Jewish players? "Our first team squad consists of Muslims, Christian and Jewish players and our fan base also crosses the ethnic and religious divide. We have also been working tirelessly to stamp out racism within the more extreme elements of our fan base. Unfortunately, those issues are not restricted to Israeli football, and they are problems the sport has been grappling worldwide including in the UK." Respect. Maccabi Tel Aviv FC @MaccabiTLVFC Translate post Club statement We acknowledge the efforts of the UK government and police to ensure both sets of...

A great Scottish Sun front page courtesy of the blog archive - the police have now dropped the case of course, but Graham Linehan is pursuing the matter with the support of the Free Speech Union. Good for Glinner and the FSU!      

I submitted an FoI request to the National Library of Scotland regarding its LGBTQI staff group which played a pivotal role in getting 'The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht' withdrawn from the library's centenary exhibition  Turns out this is a 'free for all' group which is accountable to no one and that anyone can drop in or out at any time as they choose - see below. How completely absurd, but there is more to follow as I have the notes of 'conversations' between the NLS and this shady network which I will share on the blog soon. 1) In response to your first question, under section 17 of FOISA, I can confirm that the Library does not hold this information. By way of explanation, we do not have a record of how many members the LGBT+ Network has. The network is open to all staff to drop in and out as they choose.  2) In response to your second question, under section 17 of FOISA, I can confirm that the Library does not hold this information. As noted above, th...

Helen Joyce explains on Substack she was targeted, just like Graham Linehan, by the former cop and trans activist Lynsay Watson. The trans network inside the police service needs to be rooted out and closed down - it's an affront to democracy. Follow the link below to read Helen's article in full on Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/helenjoyce/p/being-targeted-by-lynsay-watson?r=g4vnc&utm_medium=ios  

  Male trans activists are continually trying to shout women down and disrupt events where women gather to discuss their rights to single sex spaces. And this cartoon has the pricks to a T!  

So the bogus, malicious complaint which resulted in Graham Linehan being arrested by five armed officers as he stepped off a plane at Heathrow Airport has been abruptly dropped by the police. Graham now intends to hold the police accountable for his 'false arrest' with the aid of the Free Speech Union - good for him and the FSU! So too should the trans activists behind this malicious complaint which had zero merit from Day One.   Inciting Violence and Two-Tier Policing ( September 12, 2025 ) Graham Linehan was arrested by 5 armed police as he stepped off a plane at Heathrow Airport for posting this innocuous tweet back in April 2025 - urging women, if all else fails, to punch men in the balls if they refuse to leave a single sex space.  To my knowledge the trans activist Euan Weddell (also known as Sophie Molly) has not been arrested for posting this hideous comment welcoming and glorifying the cold blooded murder of Charlie Kirk. Discuss.

If two Scottish or English clubs had a derby match cancelled because of fan behaviour, the focus would be  on holding the people directly responsible to account, ie the hooligan 'ultras'. The answer is to go after those causing the trouble - not to impose a collective punishment on fans who have no truck with this ugly nonsense.  Because "football without the fans is nothing" as Celtic and Scotland manager Jock Stein once said and moronic 'ultras' should not be allowed to spoil things for the vast majority of decent fans or those watching at home.