Gordon Millar

I've written up my thoughts on being suspended by the SNP, and my subsequent decision to resign my membership denisefindlay.org/post/on-becomi…

Hi X, your algorithms appear to be having another nervous breakdown . . . . . . . . .

As a paramedic I will not pretend to see spiders when a patient is hallucinating about spiders. I will also not pretend you are a different gender than what you actually are. It is ethically and morally wrong to play into someone’s psychosis. Thats just fact. It’s also wrong to put anyone who has mental problems in positions of authority. Anyone who believes men can be women should be removed from those positions immediately. For everyone’s safety. God bless

We need a global nonpartisan coalition to draw attention to the same situation playing out in every country.

When you say he has done nothing wrong, you are of course talking about legally, because our idiot politicians changed the law, but legality and morality are not the same thing. Morally, it is wrong that someone who is not a fulltime resident of Scotland can stand for and now take a seat in our the national parliament of a country they do not permanently live in. He is now in a position to influence and create laws that directly affect the daily lives of permanent residents, while also holding power that can shape and interfere with the culture, identity and future direction of our nation. Is this not a type of colonisation?

Hi Craig, I'm very disappointed to see this post. You have absolutely no reason to introduce the trans debate and to state that I “dislike Dr Manivannan so much” - a man I had never even heard of before he was elected. Although your original article goes on at some length about trans issues, my post, very deliberately, makes no mention of his claim to be non-binary, the Greens' widely presumed motives for engineering his election or the possible interpretation of some of his published comments. This is because these are distractions from the point at issue, which is the circumstances and democratic legitimacy of the election of a non citizen, with only 5 years residence and no obvious ties to Scotland, to the Scottish parliament. Also, I would have thought that my comment re him being a “pleasant and gentle soul” was clearly exasperation with the defenders of his election, such as yourself. However, I do stand behind that point – I simply do not believe that someone studying for a doctorate in international relations did not know exactly what he was doing when he took part in this electoral chicanery. Which is exactly what this is, regardless of the legal small print.

Sturgeon of course ruthlessly used the list system (and women only shortlists for constituencies) to remove talent and thinking from SNP MSPs. Swinney certainly won't want to change it. Sturgeon's use of the trans issue to cripple the Independence movement has, in my opinion, caused unreasonable hatred of individual trans people who were nothing to do with that. I suspect that is why you dislike Dr Manivannan so much. Dr Manivannan did nothing wrong. Neither the franchise nor the voting system is their fault. Give them a chance.

Dr Manivannan - The furore around the election of Dr Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament is deeply troubling. There is no argument whatsoever that they were eligible to stand for election. The law was changed specifically in order for those on temporary craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/…

Hi Craig, I suspect that we have very different views on the legitimacy of Manivannan's election and what should happen next, but thank you for the reply. A lot of people wouldn't bother. Sadly, I don't see the voting system being changed any time soon, because it's not in the interests of those with the power to change it to do so (If the Scottish parliament actually has that power)

@TheMcGreig Gordon, Yes that's a problem with the D'Hondt system. It is a very bad system indeed which gives far too much power to the political party and not enough to the voter. STV is much preferable as it permits the voter to ranks candidates as they choose.

I wonder why the letter of 2019 urging the then government to adopt gender self-ID and signed by Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan has been taken offline. Well, no, I don’t.

It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it. Men cannot be women.

@TheMcGreig @arctophilewitch @CraigMurrayOrg Well said. The Greens use the list system to avoid public scrutiny of those they seek to place in the Parliament who would never otherwise succeed as candidates. The Greens' have no scruples about subverting the democratic system where they can for their own ideological ends.

@TheMcGreig @CraigMurrayOrg Well said sir, only thing I would add is this: the Greens had control of who topped their internal lists: and by promoting this candidate, it wad very much an intentional provocation to the electorate to say 'we are doing this, suck it up'

@TheMcGreig @CraigMurrayOrg I may not agree with your constitutional position, but that is a brilliant analysis of where the problem with Q. Manivannan's participation at Holyrood lies, elected by no-one, selected by the party.

Craig, I've read your article and the simple and fundamental problem here is highlighted in your last paragraph, where you say “A lot of people voted Green . . . . . . . This member of the Scottish parliament, elected by the Scottish people, must be defended against any attack from the London-based UK Home Office”. This is nonsense, because none of the Scottish people actually voted for Manivannan in any meaningful way. If you ask the question “Why did the voters of Edinburgh and Lothians East choose Manivannan?” the only honest answer to that question is that they didn't. He was elected because the Scottish Green Party put his name third on a regional list which was chosen, and ordered, by a small group of Green party activists. The Scottish proportional representation mechanism puts parties in charge, not voters. This is presented as democratic because constituency votes are supposed to be proportionately balanced with with members from the party lists. But, in practice, it is profoundly undemocratic because the party machine decides who sits where on the list and, in practice, voters have no way to approve or get rid of list MSPs. . If you go back to Tony Benn's five questions to ask people in power - What Power Have You Got? Where Did You Get It From? In Whose Interests Do You Exercise It? To Whom Are You Accountable? How Can We Get Rid Of You? - it's obvious that Manivannan's election fails most of the tests. He got his power from the party, he is there to serve the party's interests, he is not accountable to voters because they have no direct say in his election and, for all practical purposes, he can't be voted out “A lot of people” voting Green is not, in any way, equivalent to them voting for or endorsing Manivannan. Do you honestly believe that a foreign national on a student visa, with a minimal connection to Scotland, would have been voted for if the Edinburgh and Lothians East voters had been choosing actual candidates? There is a reason that he was third on the list and not standing in the constituency election. To suggest that there is a strong “democratic mandate” supporting his election is simply Orwellian Newspeak. And please don't tell me that he's a “pleasant and gentle soul” who's done nothing wrong – no-one forced him into standing and he must have known perfectly well what he was doing when he agreed to take part in this profoundly undemocratic charade.

An Australian judge has ruled in favour of the gentleman on the right. Who claims he was discriminated against by the woman on the left - who removed him from her ‘female only’ app. On the basis that he was male. Tickle (right) claims he is female. In fact, the appeal judge went further than the original ruling - finding direct rather than indirect discrimination and ordering Sall Grover to pay $20,000 in damages (double the original amount), plus costs of up to $100,000 (to cover both the main and cross-appeals). On the basis that Grover excluded Tickle from the Giggle app. And then refused to re-admit him on the basis of ‘her gender-related appearance’. Now Grover is off to the High Court. To defend herself against claims of ‘sex discrimination’ - against an individual who anyone can clearly see, on sight, is male. Insanity. @salltweets has my full support - along with the support of many people here in the UK. And this case is a reminder of why women (and men) must continue defending single-sex rights and spaces. Relentlessly. While the impact is felt differently in different parts of the world - due to differing legal systems - it is clear that we are witnessing a global attack on the rights of women and girls. We cannot afford to stay silent about it.

Flashback: Hamas leader Fathi Hammad blew up the entire “indigenous Palestinians” lie in one sentence: the so-called “Palestinians” are nothing but Arab Muslims who invaded and settled in the Land of Israel from Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and everywhere else around them. There was never a “Palestinian people.” Just opportunistic Arab colonizers with a made-up identity. The left’s sacred narrative just got torched by their own terrorist heroes. This is the ultimate red-pill truth they desperately try to hide. Make this go viral — share it everywhere and educate the brainwashed masses before they can censor it again!

.@AndyBurnhamGM wants British women to learn the same lesson Australian women have just been taught: your boundaries exist only until a man wants them removed. Toilets. Changing rooms. Refuges. Rape crisis services. Women’s networks. All up for grabs. A man this casually hostile to women’s rights should never be near power.

The reason Israel keeps doing well at Eurovision is not that the Israeli government is good at marketing. The Israeli government is, on most days, one of the worst-marketed states on earth. The reason Israel keeps doing well at Eurovision is that millions of people across Europe are watching the same news that other Europeans watch, reading the same op-eds, watching the same celebrities pose in keffiyehs, and have decided, quietly, that they disagree. open.substack.com/pub/henmazzig/…

I support Rashida Tlaib's resolution to officially recognize the Nakba on the condition that we say the truth about what the Nakba was: Palestinians led the charge, murdering 1% of Israel's population, in a war they started. Palestinians rejected a peaceful UN two-state solution and chose war and ethnic cleansing instead. They ethnically cleansed THE ENTIRE East Jerusalem and the West Bank of every Jew. NOT ONE Jew remained there. Let's recognize the truth of the Nakba.

open.substack.com/pub/suzannemoo… The judgement in Giggle (Sall Grover) v Tickle is due today. Here is the brilliant @suzanne_moore 's article from 2024 (just after Grover lost the initial tribunal case), which she's re-issued pending the judgement. I especially like "this fake liberalism is a smokescreen" and "Why did this person want to go into a space where they clearly were not wanted? This seems to be the pathology of certain trans activists – or should we just say it like it is: men’s rights activists who refuse to accept women’s boundaries". These comments should be repeated and reposted as often as possible.