Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

This is quite a read regarding some of the key activists involved with the persecution of Graham Linehan. After reading this, I wonder why certain groomers are not on trial instead of Linehan. https://t.co/njXOcHVveB — Eldur - The Icelandic Gay Guy (@justgayice) September 8, 2025 Wings Over Scotland has shared two extremely well-researched posts explaining how a small group of male trans activists managed to acquire huge influence over the police to target people like Graham Linehan    Well worth a read  A few days ago Lynsay Watson demanded that we remove all articles mentioning him, apologise, pay him £50,000 and undertake never to write about him again. Here's our answer, Lynsay. https://t.co/vwqBMmDkVP pic.twitter.com/5Ro38RmhGr — Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) September 5, 2025  

Malcolm Clark is spot on about the greedy, shameless behaviour of Nicola Sturgeon  The Sturgeon 'golden goodbyes' of £67,000 and £75,000 are a joke and terrible waste of public money. Sturgeon has no need of a financial cushion to help the former FM  adjust to a new career/way of life - not least because she already has a new, lucrative writing career and is intent on hanging on to her £70,000 MSP salary until May 2026. See post below from the blog archive - 'Fiddles, Rackets and SNP Rules'

  SNP ministers are some of the worst offenders when it comes to using public money to fund hugely generous 'golden goodbyes'. The Daily Record reports that the practice is widespread in other part of the public sector - link below. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-government-shells-out-4m-35856461 SNP 'Golden Goodbye' Racket ( May 08, 2025 ) Malcolm Clark is spot on about the greedy, shameless behaviour of Nicola Sturgeon  The Sturgeon 'golden goodbyes' of £67,000 and £75,000 are a joke and terrible waste of public money. Sturgeon has no need of a financial cushion to help the former FM  adjust to a new career/way of life - not least because she already has a new, lucrative writing career and is intent on hanging on to her £70,000 MSP salary until May 2026. See post below from the blog archive - 'Fiddles, Rackets and SNP Rules'

Here's the story of Glasgow's fight for equal pay which I wrote back in 2019 after a major settlement agreement was reached with Glasgow City Council (GCC). The 2019 agreement covered the period from 2007 to 2018 (at the council's insistence), but brought some well-deserved, long awaited compensation to thousands of low paid council workers. Sadly, the council's discriminatory pay arrangements have remained in place to this day even though they were condemned as 'unfit for purpose' by the Court of Session, Scotland's highest civil court, in 2017. Glasgow City Council promised to replace these 'unfit for purpose' pay arrangements by April 2021, but failed to deliver on its promise which explains why the long-running dispute rumbles on and why the underlying problem is still not fixed.   So thousands of low paid council workers continue to have equal pay claims from April 2018 onwards and will do so until the council finally introduces new, non-discrim...

Trade unions claim to be member-led, but when it comes to women's rights they are dancing to the tune of largely male trans activists instead of standing up for women members. Up till now the unions have supported self-ID - a nonsense policy which, if passed into law, would have allowed men to declare they have magically 'become women' entitling these men to invade women's single sex spaces. The Scottish Government tried to do just that of course, but they were stopped in their tracks by UK ministers and a resounding judgment from the UK Supreme Court which affirmed biological sex as the foundation stone of equality law. Trade unions gather in Brighton today for the 157th annual congress of the TUC which I last attended in 1983 to collect the TUC Youth Award - a time when no one had heard of queer theory, children being born in the wrong body, self-ID and men claiming they are women. So here's the kind of motion TUC delegates ought to be discussing in Brighton this ...