It’s that time of year again when various media outlets reveal their inspirational person or persons of the year.
From the BBC’s achingly woke list of women to Time magazine’s more controversial choice of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, they are all in their own ways worthy recipients.
But if you ask me, only one person truly deserves that title in 2021 — J. K. Rowling.
I can’t tell you how my admiration for this woman has grown in recent years. She has gone from being just another famous author to the modern equivalent of writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft or Simone de Beauvoir; a feminist icon every bit as inspirational — and controversial.
Last month, she was excluded from the 20th anniversary celebration of the Harry Potter films while a bunch of woke little ingrates — Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — basked in the glory of a lucrative franchise which, without her, wouldn’t exist.
And all because she has been miscast as a modern-day witch for daring to challenge the hard-line dogma of trans activists who insist — against all reason — that biological sex does not exist.
From the BBC’s achingly woke list of women to Time magazine’s more controversial choice of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, they are all in their own ways worthy recipients. But if you ask me, only one person truly deserves that title in 2021 — J. K. Rowling
Any woman who calls herself a female has the right to take up space that is exclusively for women, even though it might be dangerous to those who are vulnerable to biological males.
This week, Rowling was magnificent when she responded to guidance issued by Police Scotland that rapes could be recorded as carried out by a woman if the perpetrator ‘identifies as female’.
Adapting a quotation from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, she tweeted: ‘War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. It is not easy to be ignorant. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.’
Thus she summarised the dangers faced by women in a world that increasingly seems to believe someone’s right to self-identity trumps all other human rights.
From the BBC’s achingly woke list of women to Time magazine’s more controversial choice of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, they are all in their own ways worthy recipients
Her words caused a furious reaction, which is not surprising. There is no doubt that efforts to remove her from office (again), will fail. The professional outraged will also come after her.
Just as they did last year when she tweeted an article entitled, ‘Creating a more equal post-Covid world for people who menstruate’, commenting: ‘ “People who menstruate”? I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Please help. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’
In the face of such madness, she is completely fearless. She has made this discussion public, exposed the arguments, and highlighted the inequalities of a movement which, ironically, boasts that it’s all about tolerance.
Last month, Rowling was excluded from the 20th anniversary celebration of the Harry Potter films while a bunch of woke little ingrates — Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — basked in the glory of a lucrative franchise which, without her, wouldn’t exist
In the face of childish petulance, and far worse, Rowling has shown herself to be a grown-up who, as she has painstakingly explained on numerous occasions and in a lengthy essay, is far from hostile to trans people but doesn’t think their rights should trump those of others.
Rowling is a victim of male violence and wants to help other women avoid that fate.
This woman is an example of a strong, rational, and courageous woman, who is not afraid to stand up for the right thing in spite of paranoia and aggression. She also has the strength of belief, even though she is aware that her beliefs will be misunderstood.
She also writes hilarious stories.
Here’s to you, J.K. Cheers.
Do put a frock in it, Kate…
Kate Beckinsale’s not fooling anyone when she posts a snap of herself wearing the same Carmen Miranda costume she wore aged nine.
It’s like her complaining about her high IQ (152) being a ‘handicap’ in Hollywood.
We get the message, Kate: you’re slimmer and cleverer than the rest of us.
Kate Beckinsale’s not fooling anyone when she posts a snap of herself wearing the same Carmen Miranda costume she wore aged nine
Having a child at university used to be every parent’s dream. Now it’s more like a nightmare.
When you bring your children up, they are open-minded and curious. But when they get back to their parents brainwashed or coerced by far Left bullies that want to silence free speech and demonize anyone daring to challenge them,
Who in their right mind would pay £9,000 a year — and the rest — for that?
According to Wham, it’s Last Christmas! The top dog song is (right). This is absurd, I know.
It is the same people who give their pets Christmas stockings. I love my dogs, but they haven’t a clue what day it is and don’t care what music I play — as long as it’s anything by Bow Wow Wow.
According to Wham, it’s Last Christmas! The top dog song is (right). This is absurd, I know.
Porn is just pernicious
Billie Eilish has revealed that she began watching porn at the age of 11 and it ‘really destroyed my brain’.
It might be tempting to dismiss this as an experience of a precocious LA upbringing, but sadly it’s not. Children see porn at an average of eleven years old. These sites receive more visits per month than Netflix.
They can be viewed for no cost, which is a big advantage over Netflix.
Billie Eilish has revealed that she began watching porn at the age of 11 and it ‘really destroyed my brain’
The new three-visitor limit for care home residents is ‘devastating’, according to a spokesperson for the campaign group Relatives & Residents Association. Seriously?
I’ll tell you what would really be devastating: a repeat of last winter’s care home carnage. I’m no fan of Covid restrictions, but this is the one that makes most sense.
There is something really depressing about the headmaster of Malvern College — which has close links to two of our greatest writers, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis — declaring that using pens in exams is ‘too tiring’ for pupils.
They can even create their names. They call this progress.
Betrayal to the ghost-children
Covid is almost indistinguishable from care home residents. Nadhim Zahawi (the Education Secretary) should discredit any suggestions that schools may not reopen in the New Year.
Only last week, it emerged that 100,000 ‘ghost’ children are thought to be at risk of abuse after failing to return to school following the lockdowns. That’s children who at best will miss out on an education, and at worst will find themselves trapped in abusive homes.
Children like six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, and now also 16-month-old Star Hobson, murdered by her mother’s lover.
Children like this need to have a place of refuge, school or nursery. It is often the only way they can escape the hell in which their parents brought them. To abandon children to their fate is a morally unacceptable act.
The Government must classify schools as essential services and keep them open at all costs — and teaching unions should urge members to get vaccinated and get on with the job. If not, we’ll be remembered as the generation that threw their children under a bus to save their own skin.
Children like six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, and now also 16-month-old Star Hobson, murdered by her mother’s lover. Children like this need a safety net, and often, school or nursery is their only hope of escape from the unimaginable.
So jealous of the women featured in yesterday’s Mail who hire nannies-slash-assistants in December so they can spend more time ‘doing Christmassy things’.
But then you’re looking at a woman who once got the nanny to run the mothers’ race at school.
OK it was a bit naughty, but so worth it to see the look of fury on the other mothers’ faces when she left them all standing.
How is it possible that 94,000 NHS staff still aren’t vaccinated? They are either reckless fools or know something we don’t. Either way, it’s not encouraging.