Interesting Links for 20-12-2019

[andrewducker]

High court says UK's £1,012 child citizenship fee is unlawful

(tags:UK children citizenship law GoodNews )

JK Rowling defends transphobia

(tags:LGBT transgender jkrowling )

Avatar 10th Anniversary: James Cameron, Zoe Saldana And Others Tell All

(tags:avatar movies jamescameron )

D&D character sheets for players with dyslexia

(tags:dyslexia dungeonsanddragons )

Boy's sentence increased for homophobic abuse of bus couple

(tags:LGBT homophobia abuse law UK )

Keir Starmer looks and sounds middle class precisely because he's working class

(tags:class uk )

First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java

(tags:africa humans prehistory archeology )

Comments

[dewline]

2. Rowling's not going to hurt for revenue from this, I'm sure...but now we know.

5. Good!

[cmcmck]

Although those she's insulting (raises hand) will certainly be hurt. :o(

[dewline]

All too true, I fear and worry. With her, Sinfest cartoonist Tatsuya Ishida, and others...

[dewline]

*looks pointedly up at the avatar at the top of this page*

[gingicat]

Interesting article about Keir Starmer. I think that's true everywhere, people ironing out their accents to sound mainstream. Heck, in the US, the "normal" dialect is called Broadcast English.

Also in the Spectator, a blog praising J.K. Rowling for her TERFyness. Argh.

[cmcmck]

About what you'd expect from that fascist rag..............

[conuly]

Oh, JKR, no, honey.