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The Latest Breaking News from JK Rowling

Heartstopper: the Netflix hit - now renewed for two more seasons - represents a great step forward

The streamer’s gorgeous gay romance has been a hit with young and old alike

Evening Standard

Rachel Riley claims hate JK Rowling's receives for trans rights views comes after she spoke out 'for Jews'

Rachel has also said she supports trans rights and for people to live as they please - though Rowling has come under fire from trans activists.

Daily Record

Rachel Riley says ‘attacks’ on JK Rowling’s trans views are because ‘she spoke out against Corbyn’

Rachel Riley has defended JK Rowling over her views on trans rights, claiming much of it is because she spoke out “for Jews and against Jeremy Corbyn”.

Evening Standard

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Harry Potter and the missing sketches: JK Rowling’s first drawings of boy wizard

Author’s original drawings for her first Hogwarts novel to appear in print – alongside the return of a mysterious wizard

The Guardian - UK

Steven Moffat on J.K. Rowling's anti-trans stance: "Just be nice"

The 'Doctor Who' showrunner comments on his social justice stance and the Harry Potter author's "gender critical" views.

Inverse

Harry Potter paperback set to go for £20,000 at auction

Copy among the first batch given to schools and libraries in 1997

Wales Online

Succession star Brian Cox hits out at 'deeply unjust' treatment of JK Rowling

Veteran Scottish actor describes so-called cancel culture as “a kind of modern day McCarthyism” during an appearance on Piers Morgan’s show on TalkTV

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Succession star Brian Cox: Cancel culture is ‘modern day McCarthyism’

The veteran actor appeared on TalkTV.

The Independent UK

Amber Heard recalls leaving Johnny Depp’s private island with his daughter Lily Rose after ‘death threat’

Couple had gone to Bahamas to enjoy last trip on yacht before actor sold it to author JK Rowling

The Independent UK

Miriam Margolyes says it’s ‘humbling’ to know she’ll be ‘most remembered’ for Harry Potter scene

‘I’m just an infinitesimal part of a franchise,’ Margolyes said

The Independent UK

Tribunal of barrister suing Stonewall delayed after hospital admission

Allison Bailey claims the LGBTQ charity induced her employer, Garden Court Chambers, to investigate her over her gender-critical views.

The Independent UK

‘I’m deeply ashamed’: Miriam Margolyes admits to hitting her paralysed mother in emotional confession

‘The thing that really gets to me is that my mother forgave me,’ actor says in BBC documentary episode

The Independent UK

Rare proof sheets of first Harry Potter book expected to sell for £20,000

The ‘fascinating insight into what was to become an iconic work’ is the only known surviving copy of its kind and is to be auctioned along with a first edition signed by Rowling

The Guardian - UK

JK Rowling shares 'white, bearded, Stonewall-approved lesbian' image after fury

Author JK Rowling received criticism after sharing an image of her friend Allison Bailey marching for LGBT rights in San Francisco in 1991

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Irish Mirror

Piers Morgan's 17 fiercest celeb bust-ups - bitter book row to vicious Twitter spat

From Phillip Schofield and JK Rowling to Chrissy Teigen, Piers Morgan has had it out with most celebs either online or in real life

The Independent UK

JK Rowling accused by Lesbian Visibility Week founder of ‘stirring hate within our community’

‘This is a perfect example of #HowNotToBeAnAlly’

Daily Record

JK Rowling vows to attend book club of Scots fan who backed her over trans row

The Harry Potter creator said she would show support to a fan who stuck up for her amid criticism over her gender views.

Evening Standard

Trans author sparks anger over ‘killing off’ JK Rowling in novel

JK Rowling in the past has received death threats after being vocal on the trans debate about her opinion that ‘biological sex is real’

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Salon

The hollow retconning of Dumbledore

Has "Harry Potter" – depicting a shallow, antiquated and dangerous idea of queer people – finally lost its magic?

Pedestrian.tv

Professor Sprout Defended J.K.R’s Fkd TERF Views & Honestly We’d Rather Listen To Mandrakes Cry

Accio massive disappointment.

The Independent UK

JK Rowling: Platinum Jubilee judge defends decision to snub Harry Potter author from books list

The BBC’s Big Jubilee Read lists 70 ‘great reads’ from across the Commonwealth

The Independent UK

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien missed off BBC’s list of 70 Commonwealth authors

Some notable titles did not make the list, including the Harry Potter series by creator JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Daily Mirror

Miriam Margolyes offers to mediate between JK Rowling and Emma Watson amid trans row

Miriam Margolyes, 80, who played Professor Pomona Sprout, has defended JK Rowling after she made controversial comments about the transgender community. The actress encouraged kindness, and shared her own experience with a friend who wanted to transition

Bristol Post

Reaction as JK Rowling missed from Queen's Platinum Jubilee author list

Dr Liam Fox says brands omission as "disgraceful and cowardly"

The Guardian - UK

The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen’s jubilee book list

Expert panel selects 70 books from across the Commonwealth marking the seven decades of her reign

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