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JK Rowling drops into Scots book club after promise to organiser who backed gender views

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

Daily Record

Murdering the competition: Richard Osman thriller tops UK library loans

Stats from 2020-21 reveal that the Pointless presenter’s The Thursday Murder Club is the biggest hit in UK libraries

The Guardian - UK

The trashing of Il Portico is a low point for London

What a lunch yesterday: pork belly ragu, calf’s liver, thirsty gulps of grappa. Nine of us sat greedily at a long table in Il Portico, a family-run Italian in Kensington that’s met its customers with paper-thin slices of prosciutto since 1967, but we were there in dour-ish circumstances. In the…

Evening Standard

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JK Rowling’s Harry Potter play faces backlash for Pride Month tweet

‘Harry Potter and the Read The F***ing Room,’ one response read

The Independent UK

JK Rowling heavily criticised after her Harry Potter play sent out Pride Month message

JK Rowling has been lambasted on social media for her stance on women’s rights, and has been targeted by activists who have accused her of making transphobic comments

Daily Mirror

Vandals trash London restaurant after JK Rowling attends event at sister eatery

The Harry Potter author attended a charity fundraiser at the Pino restaurant in Kensington earlier this week

Evening Standard

Ian Rankin and 17 others with links to Edinburgh who got top honours from Queen

As Edinburgh author Ian Rankin is knighted for his services to literature and charity, we took a look into other locals from the city who have received honours from the Queen.

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JK Rowling in row over 'breach of right-to-roam laws' on her land

HARRY Potter author JK Rowling has been dragged into a row about an alleged breach of right-to-roam laws on land she controls.

The National (Scotland)

Dining across the divide: ‘He struggled to use the word “corrupt” about the Conservatives’

One voted Labour, the other Tory, and they disagreed about Brexit. Can they find common ground over JK Rowling?

The Guardian - UK

Attorney general says JK Rowling is brave and schools do not need to accomodate trans pupils

She says JK Rowling - who has campaigned to protect female-only spaces - is a ‘heroine’ of hers as she says ‘I’m on her side’

Evening Standard

BBC admits 'misleading' statement over JK Rowling's gender identity views

THE BBC has upheld a complaint about a broadcast on BBC 4 which mentioned the Harry Potter author...

The National (Scotland)

Dave Chappelle criticised for making ‘transphobic jokes’ during surprise appearance at John Mulaney’s show

Event had no-phones policy, meaning no one could take videos of the controversial comedian’s set

The Independent UK

JK Rowling among Scotland's richest people - but there's a reason she isn't a billionaire

The Harry Potter author came in as the 12th wealthiest person in Scotland.

Daily Record

Scotland's rich list revealed as 10 billionaires are wealthiest people of 2022

The top 10 richest people in Scotland have a combined wealth of £23.054 billion.

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Edinburgh Live

JK Rowling among richest in Scotland as country's wealthiest people named

The Sunday Times have compiled a list of the ten wealthiest people in Scotland based on individual's personal fortune, as well as factoring in the rise or fall of their wealth in the last year

The Times of India

JK Rowling's original Harry Potter sketches to appear in print!

Twenty-five years ago, the first book in the Harry Potter series was published in 1997. Since then, over 500 million copies of the Harry Potter series have been sold worldwide and the books have also been translated into 80 languages. And now as a part of its silver anniversary celebrations,…

Evening Standard

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

Daily Record

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.

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Evening Standard

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”.

The Guardian - UK

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

Inverse

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.

Wales Online

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

The Independent UK

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

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