Do you remember that scene in Harry Potter and the Saucer Full of Surrender Monkeys where the staff and pupils at Hogwarts finally decide to abandon the struggle against the forces of evil? Voldemort, they’ve realized, is just too darn scary; the Death Eaters
Is J.K. Rowling a right-wing double agent, making the left look like fools on purpose? Her books, after all, are filled with right-wing ideas.
The left has got it wrong. The political messages of Harry Potter are actually incredibly right-wing.
Children’s author J.K. Rowling weighed into the aftermath of the Finsbury Park attack to suggest Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins helped to radicalise the suspect, long before he had been identified.
Christians brutalized at the hands of Muslims in the Middle East are a minority seemingly ignored by the elite cultural left.
Acclaimed Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling backhandedly defended Donald Trump on Monday night, saying that even though the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is “offensive and bigoted,” he should not be banned from entering the United Kingdom. The British author was delivering a speech at Pen
Tel Aviv – A leader in Britain’s Jewish community has blasted the BBC for criticizing a former employee for his opposition to a cultural boycott of Israel, calling the broadcasting corporation “hypocritical” for suppressing its former TV chief’s right to stand up to “bigotry.”
While Alan Rickman’s stage and film career spanned nearly four decades, he was best-known recently for his portrayal of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. On the day of his passing, his former Harry Potter co-stars are turning to social
The author of the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling, weighed in on Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily halt Muslim migration into the United States. According to the author, Trump is worse than the evil villain in her bestselling series.
Here’s something I once wrote on BBC Bias. On any given subject you know exactly what the BBC’s line will be. If it’s covering the Middle East it will be bigging up the gallant Hezbollah freedom fighters and the plucky
Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul, not a politician, but he owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, so he is plenty familiar with politics—and he is no stranger to battles with The New York Times. And yet unlike most politicians, Murdoch has always had a reputation for candor. And Twitter, of course, makes candor even easier; we are all just a tweet away from letting loose what we really think.
Of the various insights into the diversity of Hogwarts culture JK Rowling has been sharing on Twitter lately, one in particular caught my eye. It wasn’t the revelation, reported by the Guardian, that the school had Jewish wizards. (So what?) Nor was it that Hogwarts
