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I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
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“I think she’s going to find that you can’t sit on the fence... The real win is when ordinary people can say these things.” @DerryBanShee speaks to @joshxhowie about Emma Watson’s comments about JK Rowling. 📺 youtu.be/r2OGEITYe2Y
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Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
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So let me get this straight. In 2020, a black man dies under a cop’s knee, racial motives unconfirmed, media explodes, riots nationwide, cities burn.
A few days ago, a young white girl is killed, the killer mumbles “got the white girl”, and we get MSM silence. No headlines, no outrage, just Twitter anons discussing it.
What kind of sinister double standard is this???? What’s happening??
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You’re not mad enough, this is absolutley heartbreaking
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Every single person in the whole world should be as angry as @joerogan is right now, everyone.
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Really incredible how every politician and political commentator arguing about the factors contributing to Britain's financial woes, points to absolutely everything EXCEPT the fact that the entire economy was shut down for two years while billions were wasted on testing, furlough and poisonous injections.
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I voted Reform.
I keep seeing posts “EVERYONE WHO VOTED REFORM IS RACIST.”
I’m Polish, well, technically more Greek/Albanian than Polish. But I was born and raised in Poland.
I legally immigrated to the UK 13 years ago. I’ve always worked, sometimes multiple jobs at once. I’ve paid hundreds of thousands in taxes. I integrated into their society, learned the language, and ultimately gained British citizenship.
Over a year ago the government shut the four-star spa hotel, in the small village where I live to allocate it to “asylum seekers”. Ultimately many people lost their jobs.
I can’t go to the gym in the hotel anymore because it’s shut. My daughter can’t have swimming lessons there because the swimming pool is closed.
So-called asylum seekers don’t integrate into British culture or society. They don’t speak English. They occupy the parks and playgrounds. They are mostly young and fit men, women and children are the minority. Those young men stare at my body when walking past me. I don’t feel safe letting my daughter bike to school by herself anymore.
I don’t want my taxes to go towards illegal immigrants. I’d rather our roads be fixed, schools and hospitals have better funding. I’d rather the government look after their people first. That should be the priority of each and every government WORLDWIDE. If that makes me racist, so be it.
I don’t agree with the WEF. Whoever openly opposes their globalist agenda in my books, is a hero we need right now. If that makes me racist, so be it.
I don’t agree with gender ideology being taught at school. Children are impressionable, and their young minds can be easily manipulated, confused and swayed. There’s nothing sexual about school children, and sexual ideologies should be kept out of primary schools. If that makes me racist, so be it.
I don’t agree with the anti-meat, anti-dairy, anti-farming agendas. We need our farmers. If that makes me racist, so be it.
I don’t agree with de-banking, lockdowns, cancel culture and a cashless society. There’s a thin line between excessive government control and the erosion of our freedoms. If that makes me racist, so be it.
I wanted a pro-business and pro-entrepreneurship government. They create jobs and fuel our economy. If that makes me racist, so be it.
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