JK Rowling And The Scottish Hate Crime Law
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the new hate crime law in Scotland and the killing of three British aid workers in Gaza.
Police Scotland say that comments made on X by JK Rowling about Scotland’s new hate crime law are not being treated as criminal. The author described several transgender women as men in a challenge to the new crime of "stirring up hatred" against protected characteristics such as transgender identity. But what does the new law actually mean?
James Cook is joined by political correspondent, David Wallace Lockhart, senior lecturer in law, Dr Andrew Tickell and Susan Smith from For Women Scotland.
And three British aid workers have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. Foreign secretary, David Cameron has called for Israel to explain how this happened. The BBC’s Middle East correspondent, Lucy Williamson tells us what we know so far about the strikes. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producers were Ricardo McCarthy and Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, Adam is away, so it's James here in Glasgow |
| 0:07.3 | for the next couple of days. |
| 0:08.8 | And that's handy because there's been a very big story |
| 0:11.2 | here in Scotland, which is causing a lot of debate and we're going to |
| 0:14.1 | be focusing on that quite a bit on this episode. But first, Vichisunak was back from |
| 0:19.1 | his holidays this morning. I don't even know if he had an holiday, but anyway he's been doing something this morning which has |
| 0:25.3 | Unstuck prime ministers in the past local radio interviews and here is Amy Oakton on BBC Radio Tease asking this question. |
| 0:33.7 | Can I just say when we found out that you would be joining us on the breakfast show this morning, |
| 0:37.8 | we did post about this on social media. |
| 0:40.0 | Lots of people got in touch with a whole range of questions but the overwhelming |
| 0:43.8 | one was when will there be a general election? |
| 0:46.5 | I've answered that question many times in the last few weeks. |
| 0:50.5 | So when will be the general election? Can you give us a date on BBC radio |
| 0:53.6 | teas this morning, Prime Minister? No, no, as unfortunately not. I mean whatever else you think about |
| 0:59.6 | the Prime Minister, I think everyone might have to accept that he's stretching the definition of answer |
| 1:04.4 | when he says I have answered that question many times I mean I suppose he's answered it in one |
| 1:09.2 | way anyway I asked him the same thing what around a month ago when he was in Montrose in Angus and |
| 1:15.7 | if it's any consolation to BBC radio tease, he simply laughed at me too. |
| 1:19.9 | So there you have it. |
| 1:20.9 | Priesci Sunak again refusing to confirm a date for what one newscasts |
| 1:24.8 | that disorder has called and I'm not sure I'm going to love this. The Jenny Leck. |
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