JK Rowling: "I’ve looked around and realised that it has to be someone who can take the hit. And it has to be me. I can afford it.”
The author's words at the #FiLiA2023 conference are found only in the Telegraph today.
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- Oxford University's vice-chancellor has used the famous matriculation ceremonies to tell every new student that they must “hear the other side” of arguments and prepare to be offended digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1138/read…
- The first drag queen “story hour” for children in a UK-wide tour of council libraries has descended into chaos after it was stormed by protesters and the performer was given a police escort
- The NHS has U-turned on controversial transgender plans after a revolt by midwives. NHS England now facing questions over "ideological capture" and use of taxpayer cash after "no evidence base" for new 'birthing people' training for maternity wards.
- Mermaids is refusing to let staff see a report into ousted boss Susie Green’s leadership because there are not "safe spaces" in which to read it. More whistleblowers have now approached the @Telegraph after "very heated and hostile" meeting today.
- NEW: The Charity Commission has launched a full statutory inquiry into Mermaids, the scandal-hit child transgender group. The escalation follows “newly identified issues about the charity’s governance and management”. More to follow @Telegraph
- Cambridge University students are hosting the UK's first "re-platforming" event for academics & researchers who have been no-platformed over their views. More in @Telegraph today
- EXC: Trans activists have hounded Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi off University of Warwick's campus, accusing him of “inciting hatred” by defining women as “adult human females". Watch below @Telegraph
- The National Police LGBT+ Network is being investigated after blocking critics of wokery on Twitter. "This is not Iran, we do not have 'morality police'," says @WeAreFairCop @BadLawTeam
- Midwifery students at Edinburgh Napier University are being taught how to help men give birth, in a guide experts say is "inclusion to the point of nonsense". Regulator the Nursing & Midwifery Council told @Telegraph the module has "clear inaccuracies".
- Training by Mermaids has been scrapped at the NHS trust replacing the Tavistock clinic, after concerns were raised in The Telegraph
- 54 peers have formally complained to Ofcom about Channel 4’s “irresponsible attack” on Britain’s equality chief, saying the broadcaster is “complicit” in an attempted coup to overthrow her. Full details of their letter here as backlash grows:
- NEW: Britain's equality watchdog has suspended an investigation into its chief Baroness Falkner amid a growing backlash over an attempted coup by trans-activist civil servants.
- Excl: Ministry of Justice staff given 35-point list of "transphobic coded language" they shouldn't use to be trans allies - including "gender critical", "protecting women and girls", "sex is immutable" & "same-sex attracted". More p4 Sunday Telegraph
