JK Rowling blasts Alastair Campbell over women’s rights remarks

Has The Rest is Politics podcast peaked? Its hosts have certainly had a rather rocky ride of late – with ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart widely mocked last week over his bullish assertion that ‘Kamala Harris will win comfortably because Biden’s admin has been solid’ before the Democrat candidate went on to lose to Donald Trump. Now Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell is in the spotlight over women’s rights concerns and his, er, ignorance of the whole matter.

In a recent podcast episode, Campbell spent much time opining on the trans issue – first expressing surprise at how much gender ideology concerns were cutting through with voters before confessing himself that the pod’s dynamic duo had been advised by former diplomat James Rubin: ‘You guys don’t get just how big this woke thing is.’ They can add that to the list…

Going on, the ex-Labour spinner added:

When we talk about them putting, as Peter Hyman did, about $25 million in advertising on trans, Trump talking about kids going in as boys in the morning and coming back as girls in the afternoon, the dressing room stuff, all that.