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A SCHOOL said the decision to drop Winston Churchill and JK Rowling as house names was made by students. Pupils at Seaford Head School will vote on new names after it was questioned whether the two figures "represent the school's core values". A letter to parents, guardians and pupils from members of the school's student leadership team said this was because "Churchill was a figure who promoted racism and inequality, unfairly imprisoning and torturing many". It added that they "no longer think that JK Rowling is a suitable representative, because of her recent words about the trans co...

A SCHOOL has dropped Winston Churchill and JK Rowling as house names. The move was made by Seaford Head School in Seaford after students questioned whether these figures "represent the school's core values". A letter to parents, students and guardians said that war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill was "a figure who promoted racism and inequality, unfairly imprisoning and torturing many". It added that students did not feel Harry Potter author JK Rowling was a a suitable representative, because of her recent words about the trans community". The letter, addressed from the school...

The Ickabog The Ickabog The Ickabog is a dark and twee fairy tale, a fun one-off project to brighten the lives of children during the Covid-19 pandemic by actively involving them in a fantasy dystopia. During the same period that Rowling was writing Harry Potter, she was also writing a novel-length fairy tale fantasy as a bedtime story for her children. It was never properly finished, much to the distress of her children. Enter 2020, a year when many children are stuck at home away from their friends, and need something fun to do... and also, a year that Rowling could use a nice publicity st...

The Ickabog is a dark and twee fairy tale, a fun one-off project to brighten the lives of children during the Covid-19 pandemic by actively involving them in a fantasy dystopia. During the same period that Rowling was writing Harry Potter, she was also writing a novel-length fairy tale fantasy as a bedtime story for her children. It was never properly finished, much to the distress of her children. Enter 2020, a year when many children are stuck at home away from their friends, and need something fun to do... and also, a year that Rowling could use a nice publicity stunt to distract from tra...