Lee Bandoni

@jk_rowling This is why JK will always be the final boss

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.

@renegade6691 @elonmusk The idea of the Tesla is an overall safer experience for everyone. I would much rather my mum drove a Tesla than any other car but Tesla staff feel otherwise

@leebandoni @elonmusk I agree with them. The answer to elderly not being able to drive anymore is not to put them in a self driving car, they are still responsible if the car malfuncitons and hits someone. The though of a 98 year old monitoring the car is frightening if your a pedestrian.

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The amount of revenue @comealiveshow must lose due to lost drink/snack sales at the table due to poor / no WiFi must run into thousands of pounds a week. If they added QR codes on entry with free connection, no friction it would massively increase sales #london #comealive #theatre

RIP Robert Redford - a great actor and storyteller. My favourite of his is Indecent Proposal “As the train was pulling away, she looked right at me and gave me the most incredible smile.” #RobertRedford #RIPRobertRedford #IndecentProposal #Sundance

It’s a face that @JustEatUK @ubereats_uk & @Deliveroo could stop illegal immigrant food delivery in 24 hours by using facial recognition for each delivery matched to the passport. There is a huge black market in delivery accounts being rented for £50-100 per week on Facebook groups. #ukimmigration #immigration #UKPolitics

Get @grock , when did I get a tweet from @realDonaldTrump

Since when did Stitch become an elvis tribute act @Disney

Hey @wpeasypay , Had a support request in for 5 days and no reply. Can you please check as its holding up a project!

Does anyone want 2 tickets to see Morgan Jay in Dublin tonight? I can send you the ticketmaster tickets , just ask you make a small donation to a mental health charity after the show #morganjay #dublin #tiktok

Some exciting projects happening in Dubai. It’s unfortunate how the UK is crumbling under stupidity and whar feels like hatred of its own people #uk

2 weeks ago this was the view in Ibiza, the sky in Glasgow looks just as beautiful today. Thanks to @jet2tweets and those TikTok virals we are on the way back tonight for the weekend 😀

Edinburgh Castle looking great in the sunshine!

@danbarker It’s going to look like a DUPE WHSmith 😀

The WH Smith high street rebrand to 'TG Jones' feels like Lord Sugar told The Apprentice teams they had 90 minutes to come up with a new business name.

Great insight into Anosognosia by Dr. Xavier Amador youtu.be/NXxytf6kfPM?si…

I’m in Manchester almost every week and it’s always buzzing compared to Glasgow, people are spending cash and building stuff

@mikemajlak When you are away from home or on vacation is it still happening?

@leebandoni i do blood work twice a month I’m a sicko. it’s all good i need to lower my cholesterol a little

i wake up every day feeling like shit. i don’t say this for sympathy, but for shared curiosity. been like this for probably ten years or more. even on my deepest quests for health, eating super clean, crazy workouts, long distance cycling, with sex, without sex, short sleep, long sleep, never mattered. i wake up a ball of stress filled with crazy anxiety and just shitty feeling. i can get it under control with workouts, work, being around people, but i just never understood why i feel like that in the morning. rant over.

@craigcampbell03 Your product?

The @MacmasterThe was standing next to me and I only realised when I heard the voice. This week I have met elvis, meatloaf, Michael Jackson but he’s the highlight 😀