Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

Fergus Ewing points out that some of his colleagues in the SNP are setting up private companies, presumably in order to reduce their tax liability - from book royalties and suchlike.  Now Fergus mentioned no names, but Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf have both done this recently - Humza in conjunction with his wife (Nadia El-Nakla) who is an SNP councillor in Dundee.  

A late entry in the competition to name the new Sultana/Corbyn or Corbyn/Sultana party (depending on which faction you you support). The Jezbollah Party has been a clear favourite up till now, but there's some late money being placed on the 'Fruit & Nut Party: Fruit - Sultana Nut - Corbyn

The Scottish TUC will need to come up with some catchy new slogans given the news that its boss Roz Foyer owns five homes and separate plot of land in Glasgow. Now that is funny - I wonder if Roz knows that SNP ministers and Glasgow City Council have declared a housing emergency?

Fergus Ewing has been a thorn in the SNP's flesh for years with his campaign to speed up the 'dualling' of the A9 road between Inverness and Perth. Successive SNP governments have failed to deliver on the party's manifesto promise in 2007 to make road travel safer by turning the A9 into a dual carriageway. I'll eat my hat if Fergus doesn't win the Inverness and Nairn seat at next year's Scottish Parliament elections which he's contesting as an independent candidate against the SNP.

So Roz 'Five Homes' Foyer has invited this on herself. I can't see how the Scottish TUC can be taken seriously while Roz remains at the helm -  Scotland's political establishment is now a complete laughing stock.  

He really is an insufferable arsehole isn’t he. pic.twitter.com/CLkH7ztBja — Kosher🎗 (@koshercockney) July 6, 2025 Owen Jones (aka Talcum X) asks Piers Morgan:   "What else was Hamas supposed to do on 7 October?"  The obvious answer to his moronic qestion is that heavily armed Palestinians should clearly not have murdered innocent Israelis in cold blood - many of them shot dead, execution-style, as they fled or pleaded desperately for their lives. The Hamas sadists responsible for the terrible atrocities of October 7 faced no threat from young people at the Nova music festival of course - they killed people for fun and out of Jew-hate.  

From Owen Jones talking 90 miles a minute and knocking over his glass And then the tell tell tale nose wipe by Piers it’s obvious that half the media class are coked off their faces No wonder we can’t any sense out of anyone anymore pic.twitter.com/7I5Kya0vVC — Captain Haddock 🐟 (@BenjaminDeRebel) July 4, 2025 Owen Jones (aka Talcum X) seemed to blame his ADHD medication for his bizarre performance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. The laugh is that this medication is meant calm users down - not speed them up. What a hoot!  

Globalisation gets a bad name these days, but one of its many unsung benefits is the ability to buy pumpkins in the new global marketplace which has freed the Scottish people from the drudgery of celebrating Halloween with the dreaded 'neep'. Now a 'neep' is a turnip and for readers too young to remember the days of having to make a Halloween lantern out of a rock hard turnip. So here's a hilarious YouTube video from Scot Scran which captures the insanity of these bygone days rather brilliantly. If you ask me, this mollycoddled generations of young Scots don't seem to realise they've never had it so good.  

In case anyone had forgotten who Corbyn is. pic.twitter.com/9NvSu5oepo — Rod Mason (@Rod__Mason) July 4, 2025 The 'Who are you?' heckle directed at Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons was one of the funniest things you'll ever hear in politics. Much more effective than throwing eggs, cream cakes or milk shakes at politicians.

I got inundated with abuse when I called out Stella Creasy for this. Apparently I was right to do so according to her Leader of the opposition. https://t.co/fUisUWFnTG — frances Barber (@francesbarber13) July 29, 2023 Stella Creasy says that a woman can have a penis - and that JK Rowling is wrong. Now we all know that some worryingly stupid people can find their way into politics. But these 'refusenik' MPs are denying reality, science and common sense - with their refusal to face up to the UK Supreme Court decision that sex means 'biological sex' under the law: 1) A woman is an adult human female 2) A man is a biological male with or without a penis - TWAM (Trans Women Are Men) 3) Self-ID is nonsense - and akin to arguing the Earth is flat not round

Rod Liddle poked fun at the antics of the infantile left in a piece for the Spectator magazine. Cue faux outrage from people on X who pretend not to understand satire when they are the butt of the joke.  I imagine these same folks would take offence at the poem by the great Sir John Betjeman: "COME, FRIENDLY BOMBS, AND "FALL ON SLOUGH!"   Where is the moral panic? Where are @lisanandy and @Keir_Starmer ? Or are we saying Rod Liddle can use his national platform to call for state violence and it’s fine But if Bob Vylan chants about actual state violence it’s “incitement”? At least try to be consistent. pic.twitter.com/vq3gP4h2HT — Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) July 6, 2025  

EXCL: Jeremy Corbyn and team repeatedly urged Zarah Sultana to walk back on launch of new party last week Leaked texts show Team Corbyn fury as senior aide wrote: “Neither Jeremy nor Laura [his wife] deserves to be treated with such a lack of respect" https://t.co/R9KBZ7LSrx — Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) July 5, 2025 What a great read in the Sunday Times about infantile leftists running rings around Jeremy Corbyn in an effort  to set up a new, far-left alternative party to Labour. Zarah Sultana caught Jeremy on the hop by announcing she would be co-leader of the new party, but this was news to Corbyn who had not agreed to be shoved to the sidelines. What a hoot - just hours old, without a name or election to elect its democratically and the erstwhile comrades are all fighting with each other!     Bette Midler Danny Devito GIF from Bette Midler GIFs

A timely reminder from the blog archive that Zarah Sultana, Jeremy Corbyn's new 'bestie', so they say, is a complete nutjob, politically speaking. Sultana supports puberty blockers for children, men self-identifying as women and men invading women's sport. For example, the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif who failed a sex test and been proved to be a man and biologically male. JK Rowling put Sultana in her place recently with a well aimed barb about 'coming for the Queen', but as far as I know the former Labour MP has yet to apologise for her terrible judgment and woeful behaviour.   Killer Queen - JK Rowling ( June 03, 2025 ) JK Rowling pokes well-deserved fun at Corbynista Labour MP, Zarah Sultana - a supporter of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif who has now failed a sex test and been proven to be a man and biologically male. I wonder if these ridiculous people will now have the good grace to admit they were wrong, that JK Rowling was indeed correct - and apologise ...

If a new Corbyn-Sultana hard-left party achieves anything, it’ll be the advancement of Nigel Farage’s Prime Ministerial ambitions. My @scotonsunday column: https://t.co/CKAX7B0Zkp — euan mccolm (@euanmccolm) July 6, 2025 Euan McColm's column on the creation of a new far-left party is both funny and politically astute - because the only people to benefit from such a self-indulgent move would be Nigel Farage and John Swinney. "If Farage continues to gorge himself on the Tory vote then Labour will be the only party that can credibly stop him. "Like Farage, First Minister John Swinney  would be happy to see a new Corbynesque party in the running."    Jeremy Corbyn was responsible in 2019 for delivering Labour's worst general election result since the 1930s while Zarah Sultana is a fan of the proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action and supports self-ID as well as puberty blockers for children.  Infantile politics (left, right or nationalist) are of course no sol...

I think it's fitting that Jeremy Corbyn's fledgling new political party which has no name should meet its musical doppelganger: 'A Horse With No Name' -  a great 1971 song from the rock group, America