While Starmer’s premiership is imploding Jolyon Maugham is busy having a protracted argument over whether he was friends with writer JK Rowling. Your average day on Planet Jolyon…
Maugham took issue with Kezia Dugdale – former Scottish Labour leader and new chairman of LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall – praising Rowling and said on woke playground Bluesky: “I speak to a lot of people about JK Rowling – many once close friends with her. I was once friends with her. And they all say she is now very changed.” On X Rowling said she had never met him and called Jolyon “a fixated loon”…
Jolyon is now raging on Bluesky about Rowling’s “band of trolls” and says he has “direct messages from her signed off with a kiss which is, I’d say, a decent marker of friendship.” So followed one message from 2017 about Katie Hopkins…
Does anyone want to check on Jolyon? Dibs not…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”
