The children’s author is too popular to silence, which is why her opposition to free speech restrictions in Britain is so important.
’s new laws against “hate crime” utterly toothless. It’s worth remembering, though, that it isn’t just laws that can silence people. Peer pressure can, too. And no one understood this better than George Orwell.
In the Britain of 1945, the “prevailing orthodoxy” demanded, in Orwell’s words, “an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia”. Now, in the Britain of 2024, it demands uncritical support for gender ideology.Among “right-thinking people” today, it is simply “not done” to dispute the notion that some women have prostates, or to ask why a biological male should be allowed to participate in the women’s Olympic weightlifting.
JK Rowling, however, is simply too big, too rich, too popular to silence. And so, by conclusively demonstrating last week that “misgendering” is not a “hate crime”, she has not only de-fanged the laws that threatened to silence people in Scotland. She has also eased the peer pressure that has long silenced people elsewhere.. JK Rowling may overturn the prevailing orthodoxy of ours just by writing a few tweets.
With congregations continuing to dwindle, the Church is under greater pressure than ever to “modernise”. To this end, a vicar in Wales has devised an ingenious new plan. Every Monday at 4.45pm, he’s offering “micro-services” that last no longer than 15 minutes – to attract people who are “too busy” to sit through a whole one.
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