THE first battle has been won – Harry Potter author JK Rowling has defeated the Dementors and House Elves from the trans activist movement who wanted her prosecuted.
And for a brief moment it may appear that Scottish people still have some freedom of speech.
Even if it has been greatly diminished recently.
What happened was this. The Scottish Government passed a truly horrible law. It’s called the Hate Crime and Public Order Act.
It means that you could possibly be ARRESTED for misgendering somebody.
For calling a big bearded bloke with a todger, who happens to be wearing a dress, a “man”.
This act seriously impinges freedom of speech.
It is also possibly the first time ever a law has been passed in the UK which might criminalise people who tell the truth. A scientific fact.
JK Rowling lives in Scotland and has long campaigned on the trans issue.
As she has repeatedly made clear, she has nothing at all against transgender people.
But rightly, she does not like the idiotic notion that someone who has transitioned from a man into a woman actually IS a woman.
They shouldn’t be allowed to compete against real women in sport and shouldn’t be put in women’s prisons if they break the law.
My guess is the vast majority of the population agree with her on this. Nice to know that science does, too.
So, the minute the law came into being, the Harry Potter writer tested it.
She put out a tweet where she called a whole bunch of trans women “men”.
And the police up in Scotland have now said they are not going to prosecute her.
She reacted to this news by saying: “I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women, irrespective of profile or financial means, will be treated equally under the law.
“If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words and they can charge us both at once.”
Good for her.
It takes a lot of guts to stand up to the shrieking maniacs from the trans movement.
Already, JK Rowling has been subjected to hatred.
She’s been seemingly shunned by the people who made films of those Harry Potter books.
Dimwits such as Daniel Radcliffe and the hugely irritating, self-righteous Emma Watson.
Others have had their careers cancelled because they have offended this tiny minority.
One of them is the brilliant scriptwriter Graham Linehan, who wrote Father Ted and Motherland.
The insistence that a man who gets some breasts sewn on and has his old fella lopped off actually IS a woman is a lunatic idea.
But it comes from the very modern notion that everybody can be exactly what they want to be and nobody has the right to challenge them.
Sure, so I’m a Somalian chihuahua called Bessie. I mean, it really is time we got real.
But the tide is beginning to turn on this issue. Rishi Sunak has already said he agrees with Rowling.
God only knows what Sir Keir Starmer thinks. Probably something today and something different tomorrow.
But when this battle against unreality is finally won, we will owe a great debt to those who put their heads above the parapet.
Thank you JK Rowling — and good luck.
AM I alone in hating it when our favourite quiz shows do those celebrity specials?
Partly, it’s because the slebs are usually thicker than the general public.
Especially Janet Street-Porter, whose performance on The Chase was hilarious.
But also because they’re playing for charidee.
And so no matter how worthy the cause, it doesn’t quite matter as much to the contestants.
TWENTY councillors – all but one of them Muslim – have resigned from the Labour Party in Pendle, Lancashire.
They say they are sick of being bullied by the party leadership over Palestine.
This is an enormous problem for Sir Keir Starmer.
Not the 20 in Pendle, so much, but the fact this is going to happen time and time again before the next election.
Watch this space.
FORMER Labour minister David Blunkett reckons that if we all had ID cards, the migrant crisis wouldn’t be as big a problem as it is today.
Put briefly, if the migrants coming here knew they’d need ID cards to get work, they might be deterred.
Hmmm. Not sure about that.
I’ve got a lot of time for Lord Blunkett. He is a superb politician.
But he was also part of a Labour government which opened the doors to hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
That’s been one of our biggest social and economic problems.
A short apology for that wouldn’t go amiss.
UH-OH, the Angel of Death is headed towards Radio 2.
They can already hear his big, black wings flapping.
Yes, Paddy McGuinness is to take over the 11am Sunday slot from Michael Ball.
The last two shows Paddy has been parachuted into were Top Gear and A Question Of Sport.
He managed to reduce the viewing figures to what is known in TV circles as “AFA”, which stands for Absolutely Not Much At All.
A Question of Sport doesn’t even exist any more, thanks to Paddy’s tenure.
Good luck, Radio 2.
HERE’S Liddle’s Golden Rule of Football: The bigger a game is and the more hype there is, the worse it will be.
And the more likely it is to end 0-0.
I would point you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, to Manchester City versus Arsenal for recent confirmation of this.
In the big, hyped-up games the players become cautious. They take no risks.
Also, you need flaws to make a game exciting. And the really big games have players in them who don’t make mistakes.
For real excitement, watch games between the also-rans – such as Newcastle United and West Ham.
Or any game in which Jordan Pickford is playing.
THE British Army has at last dropped its ban on serving soldiers sporting beards, thus bringing it into line with the other branches of our Armed Forces.
People have been allowed beards in the RAF since 2019.
Even the women, some of whom are called “Loretta”.
My worry is that there are beards – and then there are BEARDS.
To judge by its detailed stipulations about neatness and close shaving, the British Army clearly favours the sort of beard which was only ever worn by hipsters.
Attractive though these beards are, they will hardly strike fear into our enemies.
We need huge, bushy, Viking beards, or the sort of long, scary, ecumenical beards worn by senior members of the Orthodox churches.
Think again, please, you generals.
THEY are to re-brand the Team GB Olympic flag to make it more “relevant”.
What a grotesque waste of time and money.
Our Olympic flag should be the Union flag, pure and simple.
And frankly, people who don’t think the Union flag by itself is “relevant” should p**s off and live somewhere else.
No offence intended, of course.
ISRAEL is in severe danger of losing the support it has had from the western democratic countries.
The latest outrage is the accidental killing of aid workers, including Brits.
OK, the Israelis have apologised.
But the West’s patience is stretching very thin.
In previous crises, Israel has always been able to count on us and Europe, as well as the US, for support. Moral and practical support.
I fear the country might not survive if that support is withdrawn.
