Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

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.

Interesting, if disturbing, post on what children get taught by adults.  

Parents teach their children how to be unbelievably greedy, bad citizens and poor neighbours

These two Israelis soldiers were killed by Hamas, with a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), the day after a ceasefire came into force in Gaza. Since then Hamas has gone on a killing spree - with ISIS-style, public executions of hundreds of fellow Palestinians who oppose their Mafia-like rule over Gaza. The ceasefire/peace deal brokered by President Trump has the support of all the key Arab/Muslim majority countries in the Middle East. Build a peace, not terror tunnels. 

As Gary Neville is trending, let's revisit the time he got DESTROYED for taking cash from Qatar - a place infamous for its human rights abuses. The man is a hypocrite‼️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @GNev2 pic.twitter.com/269UcQoqIm — Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) October 5, 2025 Gary Neville is made to look like a complete twat by the Have I Got New For You team Qatar has a dreadful human rights record and is one of the main backers of Hamas.    

Yoni Michanie makes a fair point about the hypocrisy of the Spanish football authorities. Spain's government led by Pedro Sanchez is mired in allegations of scandal, sleaze and corruption these days. 

A magazine aimed at young women puts a bunch of men on its front cover and proclaims these 'Dolls' as 'Women of the Year'. How absurd!

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!

Lots of people, myself included, have complained about the woeful policing of the For Women Scotland (FWS) rally outside the Scottish Parliament on 4 September 2025. All these weeks later my complaint is still 'under investigation'. Yet during the same period Police Scotland managed to investigate a separate complaint from the man causing the trouble on the day - and have brought bogus charges of vandalism against one of the FWS directors, Susan Smith. Two-tier policing, anyone? Dear Police Scotland ( October 10, 2025 ) I've heard back from Police Scotland to say that my complaint about the woeful policing of the For Women Scotland rally at the Scottish Parliament on 4 September - is still under investigation. So I've written to them again to gee things up a bit because when you think of it what is there to investigate - the facts are crystal clear? Dear Police Scotland COMPLAINT ABOUT THE POLICE Thank you for your letter dated 29 September 2025 I note that Police Scotl...

I wrote a letter of complaint (attached below) to the chief constable of Police Scotland, Jo Farrell, back on 7 September 2025. Eight weeks later my complaint is still under investigation - yet Police Scotland have managed to investigate a complaint from the man causing the trouble and have ordered Susan Smith, from For Women Scotland to face a bogus charges of vandalism. Police Scotland Complaint (September 23, 2025) A reminder from the blog archive - my letter of complaint to Scotland's chief constable, Jo Farrell, regarding the woeful policing of the For Women Scotland rally outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 4 September 2025. Jo Farrell Chief Constable Police Scotland Dear Chief Constable Farrell Policing of For Women Scotland Rally At The Scottish Parliament I wish to register a formal complaint over the policing of the For Women Scotland (FWS) rally at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 4 September 2025. For some unexplained reason the police officers on duty allowe...

The vast majority young people with 'gender confusion' are girls, of course pic.twitter.com/HKcLfh3Lf3 — Mark Irvine (@Mark1957) April 22, 2024 Who else is fed up hearing this guy mansplaining endlessly on the BBC? Most young people struggling with 'gender confusion' are girls. Whereas Ellie Gomersall is a man who self-identifies as a woman with no credentials or life experience which qualifies him to speak with any authority about children's health care.            

Zarah Sultana seems unaware or unconcerned that she's welcoming another bloke to Jeremy Corbyn's new party - also know as a 'sexist boys' club' when Zarah gets frozen out of things. As folks in know Scotland, Gomersall is a former student politician - a man who self-IDs as a woman, who believes men are entitled to declare they have magically 'become women' and can invade women's single sex spaces.    

Brendan Rodgers compared Celtic's first team squad to a Honda Civic the other day and soon afterwards found himself thrown under the bus. Can the former manager have any complaints?

More street graffiti in Glasgow has popped up over the weekend with the arrival of pro-Palestinian and/or pro-Hamas on public lampposts in parts of the west end. As everyone knows, graffiti always breeds more graffiti - just like violence begets more violence. So I must get in touch with Glasgow City Council and ask what the council is doing to take these eyesore flags down.

Phillip Rodney doesn't pull his punches with an excellent, thought-provoking piece on how Glasgow can get its mojo back. "The city centre is a shadow of itself. The buzz, the civic pride, the ambition — gone. In the 1980s, we all believed Glasgow was miles better. But somewhere between then and now, we lost not just the momentum but the belief."   https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/glasgow-850-anniversary-zqjpqgrpm Glasgow’s miles worse — here’s how we can make it better again No more doom and gloom, or blaming Thatcher: the city needs to show the kind of drive and ambition that historically made it great By  Philip Rodney  - The Times This year, Glasgow celebrates its 850th birthday. Last week I gave a talk in which I was asked to look forward to the next 850. A confession: I’ve got absolutely no idea what Glasgow will look like in 2875. I can barely predict next Tuesday. But with the help of AI, I had a go. The Greater Glasgow Conurbation, now stretching ...