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Davros · 25/05/2025 23:14

Strike is good on Audible too

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 25/05/2025 22:47

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 25/05/2025 18:28

JKR's not standing for any nonsense, that's for sure. That last paragraph is absolutely savage.

The ratio between JKR’s tweet and his response is epic. He’s properly losing the plot now, what a very silly man he is.

Wetoldyousaurus · 25/05/2025 22:08

Wetoldyousaurus · 24/05/2025 21:27

Much respect to JKR, bloody brilliant move in this ridiculous chess game that we women find ourselves being forced to play.

To all those keen to garden but now with spare plants, please consider us adult human females in the colonies for your efforts, as we are not eligible for JKR’s fund.

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LizzieSiddal · 25/05/2025 21:44

That Times article is a thing of beauty. We get a very good resume of the Boxing Day activities of the fox killer.

SidewaysOtter · 25/05/2025 21:12

moto748e · 25/05/2025 21:04

Or, cheaper still, free on the i-player.

The TV series is good, but not as good as the books.

moto748e · 25/05/2025 21:04

Or, cheaper still, free on the i-player.

SidewaysOtter · 25/05/2025 20:49

Needspaceforlego · 25/05/2025 07:13

Please excuse my ignorance but what is Strike about? Never heard of it.

I'm not really a reader HP makes up half the fiction books I've read as an adult. I start books but never finish them. If I've finished it then it's a great book!

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To follow on from @Steve3742’s post, the first one is The Cuckoo’s Calling and you can get them second hand on the likes of Amazon Marketplace or eBay quite cheaply.

I bought the first one about a year ago and have galloped through them all! <drums fingers impatiently for The Hallmarked Man>

KathyMalloryKicksAss · 25/05/2025 20:42

I would love to see JK take him on in a courtroom.

He’s such a fud 😉

MarieDeGournay · 25/05/2025 20:36

Datun · 25/05/2025 14:50

In my head I see serried ranks of well fed, well paid Rowling employees licking their pencils and jotting stuff down in notebooks. Occasionally chewing the ends and thumbing through vast tomes of legal precedent.

(All in the 1940s, of course. And a very pleasant tea lady, in an apron, ambling up and down the rows asking if they want one lump or two, and this week it's cherry cake.)

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In my head, they are gerbilsGrin
(If you're confused by that, you have to pop into the Bluestocking Pub and all will be revealed..)

ThatCyanCat · 25/05/2025 20:34

IANAL but I believe you have a case for libel when someone publishes something that would lower you in the minds of right minded people. JKR might not have a case since no right minded person would pay any attention to what that pompous twat says.

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Cismyfatarse · 25/05/2025 20:23

It is actually a very funny article. The fox botherer always makes me snigger.

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murasaki · 25/05/2025 20:21

Cismyfatarse · 25/05/2025 20:18

Feud between JK Rowling and Jolyon Maugham KC fires up social media

https://www.thetimes.com/article/67f6f74c-3cd6-4786-8702-c27d776d9a80?shareToken=f0cb10836b9c1f90b1c5b93b6a081e41

Thanks for the share token, I'm glad they spent about a third of their words mocking him re fox killing. The readers can draw their own conclusions about him.

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DontTellMeWhat2Do · 25/05/2025 20:13

I think we will see JKR in court against one of these idiots sooner rather than later, and it will be glorious

Steve3742 · 25/05/2025 20:06

Needspaceforlego · 25/05/2025 07:13

Please excuse my ignorance but what is Strike about? Never heard of it.

I'm not really a reader HP makes up half the fiction books I've read as an adult. I start books but never finish them. If I've finished it then it's a great book!

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Strike is a Crime Detective series, with a Private Investigator (Strike) as the main character, along with Robin, who starts out as his secretary but becomes a partner in the detective agency about half way through. There are 7 books at the moment, soon to be 8 (September, I think, is the release date). The first 6 have been made into BBC series and are available on iPlayer.
They're very good, in my opinion. Better than Harry Potter. Although comparing a Crime Detective series to a Children's Fantasy series is a little hard to do.
Watch or read the first one and see what you think. If you like it even a bit, try the rest - they get better.

EasternStandard · 25/05/2025 19:57

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 25/05/2025 18:28

JKR's not standing for any nonsense, that's for sure. That last paragraph is absolutely savage.

Go on JKR. Nonsense from the man.

Steve3742 · 25/05/2025 19:54

Waitwhat23 · 25/05/2025 18:30

I've been off in an afternoon reverie about food in fiction. It would make a wonderful book in itself.

The feasts in the Great Hall in Harry Potter and other children's books with their midnight feasts and picnics.

The wonderful sounding food cooked by the incomparable Anatole in PG Wodhouse and the sideboards at country houses simply groaning with breakfast dishes.

The cocktails in Christie and Sayers and the various dinners at Clubs.

I'm sure there's more but I'm just dreaming of breakfast kedgeree in an enormous serving platter, after my morning tea in bed.

(I'll point out at this point that my ancestors were either down the pit, in service or at a loom so the likelihood of me ever having had a chance at this historically are slim to none!)

There's a website and a cookbook called "The Inn at the Crossroads" that has recipes for a lot of the dishes cooked in A Song of Ice and Fire (often referred to as Game of Thrones, inaccurately). Including Honeyed Locusts and raw Stallion Heart!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 25/05/2025 19:53

That last line is <chefs kiss>

LizzieSiddal · 25/05/2025 19:46

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 25/05/2025 18:28

JKR's not standing for any nonsense, that's for sure. That last paragraph is absolutely savage.

Edited to say I thought JKs tweets would show but they haven’t. The last sentence of her tweet, made me howl with laughter.

Camdenish · 25/05/2025 18:44

Davros · 25/05/2025 12:48

If you visit the Sex Matters website they have a template and have requested as many of us as possible send emails to our MP. You might need to subscribe, I’m not sure. I emailed my MP, Tulip Siddiq and, as well as asking her to support enforcement of the law, especially at the HoP, I asked her to address the situation at the Hampstead Ponds as @zenas enquired about. Plus I mentioned that as a woman and a mother, she must understand the issues and threats to women’s rights. I have had ok responses from her in the past, let’s see what happens this time. Sadly, when the boundaries got redrawn, my MP changed, it was Keir Starmer before, I would have been on his back 😹

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I have contacted him. Again. I do wonder if someone in his office was filtering out the GC emails so
It is great Sex Matters template asks for a response.

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Waitwhat23 · 25/05/2025 18:30

I've been off in an afternoon reverie about food in fiction. It would make a wonderful book in itself.

The feasts in the Great Hall in Harry Potter and other children's books with their midnight feasts and picnics.

The wonderful sounding food cooked by the incomparable Anatole in PG Wodhouse and the sideboards at country houses simply groaning with breakfast dishes.

The cocktails in Christie and Sayers and the various dinners at Clubs.

I'm sure there's more but I'm just dreaming of breakfast kedgeree in an enormous serving platter, after my morning tea in bed.

(I'll point out at this point that my ancestors were either down the pit, in service or at a loom so the likelihood of me ever having had a chance at this historically are slim to none!)

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 25/05/2025 18:28

JKR's not standing for any nonsense, that's for sure. That last paragraph is absolutely savage.

JK Rowling - Women’s Fund
JK Rowling - Women’s Fund
CapitalAtRisk · 25/05/2025 18:09

BezMills · 25/05/2025 18:01

Yeah I think it's called the Bobera Streisand effect.

Bobera 😆

BezMills · 25/05/2025 18:01

Yeah I think it's called the Bobera Streisand effect.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 25/05/2025 17:58

CapitalAtRisk · 25/05/2025 15:45

Just looked it up. Nothing has been heard about his supposed lawsuit since the middle of last year.

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I read at the time that it’s a common occurrence in French law that you can start legal action against absolutely anyone, and then they just sit there and nothing happens. It’s not in his interest to pursue it because it would become clear that he is in fact, a man.

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