Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

Astonishing bravery from the Australian man in a white T-shirt who wrestles a powerful rifle away from a cowardly Islamist terrorist. These dreadful attacks are the result of fanatics on our streets spreading hate and chanting slogans about 'globalising the intifada'. Video link below. The man in the white shirt at Sydney beah. He jumped on a terrorist to stop him. A real hero. pic.twitter.com/KP2YOFdV3s — Ahmed Al-Khalidi (@khalidi79397) December 14, 2025  

Joan McAlpine, journalist and former SNP MSP, is spot on with her column in the Sunday Post which points out that Sandie Peggie was punished and victimised for speaking the truth to power "Sandie Peggie told the truth when she stated Dr Upton was a man. She declared the Emperor had no clothes" "It is not just Fife health board that has been exposed. And the 'power' in question is not just the bullies and bureaucrats at NHS Fife NHS - the people responsible for this farce include three First Ministers of Scotland and the Scottish Government who have been promoting the nonsense of self-ID in our public services. 

Dean Cain's comment about Dylan Mulvaney and Jeffrey Marsh - "I think.......neither of you are girls" - made me laugh like a drain, but also reminded me of one of my favourite songs by the Crash Test Dummies.  I love the lyrics and the haunting melody, but above all the humour and pathos which contrasts the life of Superman with the 'dumb as an ape' character of Tarzan. Without fail it always brings a big smile to my face.  Superman's Song Tarzan wasn't a ladies man, He'd just come along and scoop em  Up under his arm like that, Quick as a cat, in the jungle. Clark Kent, now there was a real gent, He would not be caught sittin' around in no jungle scape, dumb as an ape, doin' nothing.  [Chorus] Superman never made any money, Savin' the world from Solomon Grundy. And sometimes I despair The world will never see another man like him. Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job! Even though he coulda smashed through Any bank in the United States. He had ...

Anya Sabalenka is spot on - the last thing women's tennis needs is more balls!

The Supreme Court's written judgement in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers (ie John Swinney & Co) ran to just 87 pages long - a landmark decision which restored sanity and common sense to the UK's equality laws. Yet the 1st tier employment tribunal in the case of Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife runs to an astonishing 314 pages - not counting the subsequent correction pages which have had to be issued because the decision is riddled with embarrassing schoolboy errors. The presiding judge in the Peggie case, Alexander Kemp, is now in deep doo doo and the shambolic handling of Peggie v NHS Fife is turning the Scottish judiciary into a laughing stock.

Q. What's the difference between Judge Kemp's employment tribunal decision and a Swiss Cheese Plant? A. None

Scotland's establishment these days includes well known SNP ministers as well as the once powerful trade union movement who have had nothing to say about the Sandie Peggie case and the attack on women's single sex spaces. "The Scottish Government are complicit for refusing to intervene in NHS Fife’s clown show, an act of supreme cowardice which has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and wrought incalculable damage on Scotland’s reputation for authentic Diversity, Inclusion and Equality … under the law and dictated by cold science.  "And Scotland’s Trade Union aristocrats are exposed too. They walked away from Sandie Peggie in her hour of greatest need. No matter that she’d paid all her union membership dues over three decades. They left her to face the combined forces of a ruthless management alone.  "Like NHS Fife, and the Scottish Government , Scotland’s trade unions have taken a severe doing in the course of these proceedings." https://www.heraldscotla...

Pro-Hamas, pro-Pal activists have attacked the HSBC bank in Glasgow's Buchanan Street - smashing windows, throwing paint everywhere and causing part of the street to be cordoned off.    

Judge Alexander Kemp owes Scotland an explanation because the written judgment of his Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife tribunal contained seriously duff information including bogus quotes and citations. It is simply not good enough for judge Kemp to blame this extraordinary state of affairs on 'clerical error' since admin staff do not insert bogus claims into important tribunal judgments - only a judge does that which is why they're paid big salaries. We should also be hearing from the other two tribunal members - the mysterious L Brown and C Russell, one of whom has employer/management experience and the other employee/trade union experience. But who are these people - and what do they have to say for themselves? https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/sandie-peggie-judgment-trans-quote-nx6955v2r

Sandie Peggie believes that men should respect women's boundaries and stay out of their single sex spaces. John Swinney believes in magical thinking and that men belong in women's sport and in the female prison estate. I say Sandie stands for sanity, courage and common sense - and that Swinney is a coward. 

  I really don't see how the employment judge in the Sandie Peggie case can possibly blame 'clerical error'   for the dog's dinner Alexander Kemp has made of the tribunal's written decision. The judge writes up the judgement - not the lowly clerical staff who can't speak up or answer back and the judge (supported by two other panel members) is required to sign the document off before publication. What's needed is an urgent stewards' inquiry and for Judge Kemp to face the media and explain himself.

What a great statement from Sandie Peggie: "I am not a campaigner and had never heard of the phrase 'gender critical' when I first raised complaints over two years ago about my employer's decision to allow men into female only changing rooms." "I just knew instinctively that it wasn't right that women were expected to undress in front of men in private spaces and I still believe this to be the case." "Whilst I am delighted that the tribunal was critical of Fife Health Board and found they harassed me, their judgement I believe falls short in many respects and that is why I certainly won't be giving up this legal fight any time soon." Well said.  

John Swinney defending the indefensible with his refusal to refer SNP justice minister, Angela Constance, to an independent adviser after claims she has broken the ministerial code. Why have a dog and bark yourself, First Minister? John Swinney has looked into accusations that John Swinney's justice secretary lied to Parliament and has decided she did nothing wrong. So that's okay then... 🙃 pic.twitter.com/KDIcDGGlkf   — Douglas Ross MSP (@Douglas4Moray) December 11, 2025

Scotland's NHS has more  money, more staff and more resources than ever before, but Audit Scotland concludes that services are less efficient and less productive than they were before Covid.  The 999 'What's Your Emergency' ambulance service is a joke and NHS waiting lists in many areas are far to0 high  forcing people to pay for treatment - or live with painful, disabling, life-changing conditions. 

The Scottish government is shamelessly promoting a baloney 'good news' story about Scotland's NHS waiting lists - when in reality the figures are being manipulated by SNP ministers. The Daily Record reports that one third of kids are routinely kicked off waiting lists for mental health treatment, for example. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dym2qzg9z

Professor Lindsay Paterson, a leading Scottish academic has accused SNP ministers of 'cooking the books' when it comes to education statistics and pupil attainment figures. The same thing is happening in the NHS where ministers are painting a baloney picture of services improving across the board - even though many parts of the NHS such as waiting lists are still worse than they were before Covid, despite record levels of spending. https://www.scotsman.com/education/leading-academic-takes-aim-at-scottish-government-education-statistics-as-deeply-flawed-5437854

I've been a Celtic fan from a young age, ever since I could kick a football, and I've been a season ticket holder for many years ever since I move back to Glasgow.  But I don't have any time for these 'ultra' wankers who have no respect for other fans and use the club as a platform to promote their sectarian views and politics. If any group of fans have sensible proposals for improving the running of Celtic FC, let them share their ideas - instead of disrupting the club's AGM, holding angry protests outside the stadium and calling for the board to be sacked, as if that is a strategy for success.   All this comes on top of the self-styled 'ultras' being banned after a violent assault on a club steward and Celtic's Head of Security and Safety being threatened personally by two of these out-of-control ultras.   The bottom line is - shape up, or ship out. Sack The Green Brigade! ( December 06, 2025 ) Celtic FC are no longer indulging the self-styled ...