The author of the Harry Potter novels has frequently been damned as a snooty elitist for being pro-Labour and anti-Brexit and for turning Dumbledore gay. In my book, however, anybody who has a boy wizard as hero and a girl as his bossy boarding-school sidekick can’t be that right-on. I also enjoyed the way she stuck the boot into the Corbynista hard left in her Cormoran Strike detective novel Lethal White.

Joanne Rowling, for it is she, has “misgendered” herself for years behind the initials JK and her crime-writing nom de plume, Robert Galbraith. “Call yourself what you like, sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you,” she tweeted sweetly to her 15m followers last week. Hear, hear! Yet she has also been denounced as