Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, Organiser

The NLS provided me with some notes/emails to explain the background to its decision to include and subsequently withdraw 'The Women Who Wouldn't Wheehst' from the library's centenary exhibition. I have highlighted some excerpts in bold, but what's truly astonishing is the paucity of the 'case' put forward by the mysterious LGBTQI staff network who objected to the book's inclusion and whose intervention had the book thrown out. Read the information and decide for yourself, but as far as I can see this amounted to a few unsubstantiated assertions about 'exclusion' and a threat to 'notify LGBT+ partners' - whatever that's supposed to mean. How senior NLS managers took this nonsense seriously beats me, but you do have to laugh at an anonymous gang of trans activists calling the contributors to TWWWW 'exclusionary' and that their well-informed opinions would cause 'severe harm to staff'. Here's a reminder of these ...

I submitted a second FoI request to the National Library of Scotland asking for any written submissions from the NLS LGBTQI+ staff in support of their call for 'The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht' to be excluded from the library's centenary exhibition. Turns out there is nothing - nada, zilch, diddly squat - beyond the   juvenile unsupported assertion about the book being 'exclusionary' made by anonymous trans activists.  So it seems this tiny, tinpot group who are accountable to no one, were able to persuade highly paid, senior NLS managers to ban a book with absolutely zero evidence to back their case.   Astonishing behaviour - and now I hear these same clowns are trying to get TWWWW banned again over some baloney claim about the book creating an 'unsafe environment for library staff!     Dear Mark,  Reference number: FOI 2025-2026 3001  Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) received by the Library o...

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party would have you believe that this giant man (Jammie Booker) is female and should be allowed to compete in women's sport and freely enter women's single sex spaces. Polanski is a crank.

How could the organisers not have known that this giant man was masquerading as a woman? All the women competitors knew of course and if anyone was in any doubt a quick cheek swab test would have exposed the cheater for all the world to see!

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

SNP ministers plumb new levels of stupidity and mendacity with the news Angela Constance (John Swinney's justice secretary) says she 'accurately quoted' Professor Alexis Jay despite civil servants issuing a correction to the Scottish Parliament.