News about Douglas Murray

The commotion surrounding the SNP's controversial legislation erupted yesterday, with feminists and free expression campaigners descended on Holyrood to protest the law that went into place yesterday. JK Rowling, one of the most outspoken protesters, called for police to arrest her after it was revealed that police could prosecute individuals for misgendering people online. It culminated in her fellow Scottish writers, such as Douglas Murray, notifying the government that if they'want to come for her, they'll come for all of us.'

BEL MOONEY: I was on assignment in Romania in 1990, just three months after the tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu was deposed and killed in Romania, meeting people and finding out what life under communism's iron heel. I was reminded of what I learned about school bullying, authoritarian control of children's minds yesterday after the shocking new study about schools excluding parents from knowledge about their own children's gender changes. An unlikely comparison? Not so much so.

For many years, there had been a certain belief about the Academy Awards, that the nimble ones would always honor the safest films and let the best pictures (read: the more prestigious, more emotionally resonant ones) go unrecognized save for their nominations. But no more! A slew of really good Oscars winners in the night's top category of Best Picture has emerged over the past half-decade or so. Moonlight, Parasite, and Nomadland?All great films! And so we arrived at 2023, where an incredibly inventive and dazzling film like Everything Everywhere at All Once is not just nominated, but also selected to win the largest Oscar of the night as a result of a lot of chatter and other major awards awards. That's pretty cool, dude. It's also cool that no one knows if it'll happen. Another snapshot, perhaps a thief underdog, could swoop in and nab Best Picture, which may have been something that EEAAO may not have even considered just a few years ago.

A counter-terrorism initiative in the United Kingdom flagged some of the country's most popular sitcoms and best works of literature as potential signs of far-Right extremism. The flagship Prevent program, which was the subject of a scathing investigation, singled out comedian Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even William Shakespeare's Complete Works Of It as possible red flags of radicalism. The fiction books, according to the university, were "key texts" for 'white nationalists/supremacists.'

If any film in the last five years has taught us anything, it's to believe the multiverse. Therefore, there is a certain timeline in which Everything Everything Everything At Once — the lovable and spirited sci-fi from writer-director team Daniels' award-winning Academy Awards this year — hasn't received 11 nominations. We're lucky to live in this universe. And the EEAAO gained those coveted accolades in the top categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Ke Huy Quan), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (for co-star Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu).

In the US coverage of Queen's death, there was only one winner and only one abysmal loser. The gulf between the two countries yawned as wide as the Atlantic. CNN announced the Queen's health at 7.30 a.m. ET, the monarch's crown. CNN canceled all its regular services and concentrated in those ominous hours leading up to the Queen's death at 1.30 p.m. ET, the almost inevitable and sorrowful announcement of her death.

Author Maia Kobabe (right), who wrote the book 'Gender Queer: A Memoir,' (inset), was referred to in the TIME Magazine article by using the 'em/eir' pronouns. On Twitter (left), scholars, journalists, and comedians all slammed the magazine for promoting 'unintelligible' words. The essay focused on the controversy surrounding Kobabe's book, which describes and illustrates sexual offences, and it came a day after a judge in Virginia dismissed a case that had sought to prohibit the distribution of 'Gender Queer' as obscene for children and restricted it to minors. 'The TIME writer wrote an illustrated graphic novel by Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, discusses the eir process of becoming out as nonbinary and asexual.' The article was also promoted on Twitter by TIME magazine author and illustrator Maia Kobabe on 'Gender Queer', the drive to limit access to eir writing, and what ey thinks of the current cultural moment.' Wikipedia co-founders, journalists, and authors slammed TIME magazine for using'made-up' pronouns to complement a 'narcissist's 'whims.'