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The Guardian invited us to nominate a Person of the Year.
Time magazine has announced that Elon Musk will be their “2021 person of the year”, citing the billionaire Tesla boss’s influence “for good or ill” as a “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman”. The choice has been criticised for Musk’s attitude to tax, opposition to unions and playing down the dangers of Covid.
With this in mind, we would like to hear about your own choices. Who would be your 2021 person of the year, and why?
A number of people said JK Rowling.
Maybe they just had enough, or…
Let me predict the results:
85% in favour of J.K. Rowling
≈11% in favour of the Queen
≈3% in favour of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
<1% wrote "Don't choose the transphobe! We're the most vulnerable minority! We'll send demonstrators to your house! We'll send you death and rape threats on Twitter and Facebook!"
And they'll pay attention to the fewer than one in a hundred, because 'they must be kind'.