J.K. Rowling

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

@kthalps @zarahsultana You host a show called 'Useful Idiots' and you don't appear to know what that means, either.

@jk_rowling @zarahsultana I don't think you know what intifada means.

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

@HadleyFreeman Grotesque, both message and response.

A fitting end to this day

Following the antisemitic stabbing of two Jewish people on the streets of Golders Green this morning, words of condemnation are no longer sufficient. This must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader, and every decent person in our country. This is a hatred that we must face down together.

@HeidiBachram @zarahsultana What a peach she is.

@jk_rowling @zarahsultana She also did a little video chanting along with extremists to “from the river to the sea” while one of them made the Hamas triangle sign.

@BritAbroad @hugorifkind I lol-ed.

@jk_rowling @hugorifkind

Just a small shout-out to each and every one of my fellow Jews out there who now find themselves working really hard not to spend their entire evening telling people on the internet to fuck off.

Keir Starmer has failed the Jews. As a Muslim Iranian, I can safely wear a scarf in London but my Jewish friends can't safely wear a Kippah Today, a terrorist stabbed two Jewish men the moment they put on their Kippahs That's not how you protect religious freedom @Keir_Starmer

BREAKING: The suspect is being treated by Hatzola paramedics. He just tried to cut the throats of two Jews people. Remember last month when the internet said Hatzola only treats jews? Well they’re currently treating a man who attempted to stab jews.

Jewish people in our country are under constant attack. This is no longer a growing pattern. There is an epidemic of violence against Jewish people. It is now a national emergency and needs to be treated as such by the Government and public authorities.

Marches and banners in the UK calling for ‘intifada’ haven’t helped anyone in Gaza. They’ve put anti-semitism at the heart of identity politics and made this country unsafe for Jews. It’s shameful.

Please join me in praying for a swift and complete recovery for the victims of today’s attack: Nachman Moshe ben Chaya Sarah and Moshe Ben Baila.

An antisemite can’t bear the idea of Jews as victims. It’s why antisemites protested against Israel after October 7, before Israel had even responded - they had to demonise the victims. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that today’s victims are Jews is showing who they really are

I have rarely, if ever, heard anything as powerful and painfully, devestatedly truthful as this speech by @roisinmurphy. What a terrible toll, but a beautiful fightback: freedominthearts.com

@HJoyceGender 👏👏👏 Well deserved!

I'm proud and grateful to have been named as author of one of the Times' 25 best non-fiction books of the 21st century.

@KatHighsmith @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes I’m always fascinated by people who lecture me on how to think, speak and act, even in the privacy of my own home. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to possess that degree of entitlement.

@jk_rowling @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes Calling men "she," even your cross-dressing friends, doesn't help stop this agenda. It supports it, even if the support seems innocuous at first.

I wrote this in @thetimes in 2022: “Rarely in politics is it easy to draw a direct line from a single policy decision to the harm it’s done, but in this case, it will be simple. If any woman or girl suffers voyeurism, sexual harassment, assault or rape in consequence of the Scottish government’s lax new rules, the blame will rest squarely with those at Holyrood who ignored safeguarding experts and women’s campaigners.” We knew women and girls were being placed in danger, we knew the Scottish government was planning to introduce measures that would make those dangers more acute, but women trying to make the government listen to their well-evidenced concerns were described by Sturgeon in her turgid memoir as ‘hysterical.’ thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@SC0TY @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes I find bit of arse-handing goes very well with my morning coffee.

@jk_rowling @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes It’s a bit early on a Saturday morning to be handing peoples arses to them, don’t ya think?

@laurast51362949 @KirstiMiller30 @thetimes ‘Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty’ — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

@KirstiMiller30 @jk_rowling @thetimes It didn’t take much for you to become a monster, did it?

@KirstiMiller30 @thetimes You and everyone else who insists that incarcerated women should be guinea pigs in your little social experiment should never be allowed to forget it. 8/8

@KirstiMiller30 @thetimes Still happy? 7/8