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J.K. Rowling, Cannes Film Festival & Kalki 2898 AD feature in this week's International Insider.
An extract from the Harry Potter author’s book, The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, published by The Times, laid bare her relationships and feelings towards those closest to her, with Rowling coming out against colleagues who have rushed to condemn her then “emailed me, or sent messages through third parties, to check that we were still friends.” One’s natural inclination would be to ponder who these people might be. One of the sadder elements of Rowling’s very public battles with the transgender community has been the breakdown in relations with those who shot to superstardom via the Harry Potter movies, and both Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have been involved in wars of words with her in recent weeks — something that would have been simply unimaginable when they were riding high in Potterland. As culture war-themed topics look set to take up at least some of the airspace in the six-week-long campaign, a BBC News presenter was forced to apologize for describing the words of Donald Trump’s pal Nigel Farage as “customary inflammatory language,” as he addressed the press at a gathering for Reform UK — the party he founded in its original form but is not standing for on July 4.
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