Anthony Horowitz retweeted GC video!

The Hawthorne books are great! The meta element with Horowitz as a character must make them fun to write I think.

Absolutely! And great fun to read too - or in my case listen to.

I think people who are lefty liberal types in the first place (Rowling, Linehan etc) get the brunt of the abuse because their own fans turn on them. Whereas slightly more reactionary/ Conservative types (who do tend to be men) can get away with it.

I loved the Alex Rider books as a kid.

That's good news. I wish more authors had as much courage.

The Hawthorne books are great! The meta element with Horowitz as a character must make them fun to write I think.

Yes the Magpie Murder series is great too tho I am not sure if he's adding anymore to them. Hawthorne is going to be at least ten books I think! Which is great news.

HelenaRavenclaw · Yesterday 15:54

Surprisingly, he hasn't received any backlash yet on Twitter! I wonder if it has to do with the fact that he's a man not a woman...

I'm sure that's helping, but the Blue Haired Stormtroopers ruined Graham Lineham.

My daughter has just finished reading one of his books, "Eagle Strike," and in January, her Y5 went to meet an author, who she told me had written Alex Rider. He had a completely different name... I can't remember who. She's evidently got something mixed up!

The Hawthorne series is great. So is the Magpie Murders (?) series.

Well done to him.

Horowitz is one of my author heroes. I'm delighted he retweeted that. As to his politics a recent interview with him he said he wasn't sure about his views anymore. Seems to be a wavering Tory. A Conservative at heart, perhaps One Nation/old school as others have said. It makes no difference to me. I'm just glad he's taken a stand. He's also a very very good writer. I highly recommend his Hawthorne series. I have them on audible, read by Rory Kinnear. Just wonderful if you like mystery/thriller stories.

Excellent
He's pretty untouchable (& has the penis shield 🙄) & has a huge audience

Good for him.

I think that he has been an instinctive Tory but definitely more of an old fashioned, One Nation Tory than a supporter of recent Tory governments.

He has talked in a couple of podcasts about getting more radical as he gets older.

I think he's an intelligent man who takes a nuanced approach to things and doesn't blindly follow a party line.

He signed the letter in support of JK in 2020 and he's always been supportive of her views.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/06/writer-anthony-horowitz-hits-cancel-culture-saying-novelists/

It's almost as if there is some immutable, inherent difference between two very different types of hunan beings.....

Remember when JK Rowling donated £1m to the Labour Party? I don't know if this is relevant but ...

www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/sep/20/labourconference.jkrowling

Being critical of gender identity ideology is a perfectly normal rational thing.
The vast majority, regardless of political standpoint, know humans can't change sex.

Being a 'tory' has fuck all to do with it.

Maybe relevant in that if he was a senior Labour member he'd probably be getting bounced.
Sins of the father and all that......

He’s a Tory. His son is a senior advisor for Sunak.
I’m not sure if this is relevant but…

I’d only heard of him vaguely until recently, then I came across the Hawthorne & Horowitz series & I'm really enjoying them.

Probably the case as it has been for most male gender critical commenters in social media. The different treatment of men and women in this debate is often very stark, beginning how it is only the female sex which is erased from language, not the male sex. And then the lesser rage aimed at most men who question the gender identity ideology when compared to what GC women receive.

I met him once at a book signing in the late 2000s. I always thought he was a very astute writer who didn't get caught up in "trends". Really pleased to see he's on the right side of this debate.

Brilliant!

I love his books and have listened to a lot of interviews with him on book podcasts. He's always come across as someone who is very thoughtful.

I'm sure he will be aware that he could have a hate campaign waged against him because of this but also knows that he is successful enough for it not to make a huge difference to his sales or income. He is too big an earner for his publisher to disown him.

I just hope they don’t force him to change his mind.

It is very important to see peopole prepared to stand up about this as there is a grou pof people in the UK who think there is one right view on cancel culture . We seem to have lost the liberal left and instead have the illiberal (or woke) left today.