Magic moment
CIGAR-puffing JK Rowling richly deserves her tongue-in-cheek moment of triumph over the historic women’s rights ruling she helped secure.
It would have been easy for her years ago to jump on the trans bandwagon, knowing it was career suicide for writers, actors and musicians to do otherwise.
But she realised it spelled disaster for women’s rights if men self-identifying as female were allowed to use their spaces.
And she put her fame and profile behind reversing such woke lunacy.
She and others endured appalling threats and hatred.
Ms Rowling even fell foul of the three virtue-signalling actors her Harry Potter tales made rich — and whose silence now speaks volumes.
But she will know this battle is not yet fully won.
True, equalities watchdog Baroness Kishwer Falkner says the Supreme Court ruling is crystal clear.
Trans women must now be barred from women’s sport competitions and toilets, changing rooms and so on.
But listen to Labour’s horrified back-benchers voicing what the party TRULY thinks.
Listen to the bewildered Health Minister struggling to say which changing rooms a trans woman should now use.
Gender madness has been Labour’s mantra so long that this sudden course correction has discombobulated the lot.
Wrong-footed, the Government absurdly pretends it always supported what the court has decided.
To use the Left’s buzzword, that’s pure “gaslighting” . . . a statement so blatantly and deliberately misleading as to make the listener doubt their own sanity.
Because Keir Starmer and his Cabinet championed the now legally disproved lie that “trans women are women”.
Did they believe it? Or just know it was fashionable and seemed liberal?
This judgment has begun to restore sanity. It’s not the end of the matter.
Bank hole-days
OUR crumbling roads are a telltale sign of a country falling apart.
Two in five drivers now say potholes have damaged their car.
This Easter weekend the roads will be packed with vehicles swerving these expanding, deepening craters.
Labour’s new money for repairs is a mere tenth of what’s needed.
And getting councils to do the work is like starting a motor with a dead battery.
When will politicians, local and national, take this as seriously as voters?
Happy Easter
WARS, economic chaos, soaring bills, vast potholes and, in Brum, mountains of rat-infested bin bags. It all looks a bit bleak.
Forget that.
This Bank Holiday weekend is about bunnies, booze, a roast, vast quantities of chocolate, friends and family and, for some, church too.
However you spend it, have a fantastic Easter!