The world-famous Harry Potter author has followed the trans debate closely, so she has observed the abuse heaped upon dissidents. But after she tweeted her support for Maya Forstater, a woman who believes that sex is determined by biology, even Rowling was unprepared for the hatred and vitriol directed at her.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


