Emma G

Sometimes when you get lost you find a better route along the way. Mama to lil pickles. collect moments not things

[Shannon @shanrocksnwa]

Growing up, the P word was never used toward me either. When I graduated with honors and received my bachelors, my mom said, “who knew you were smart?” So when someone tells me now they are proud of me, it holds so much meaning to me. And I make sure I tell my kids how proud I am of them.

[David Poulden Esq @DavidPoulden]

Drop a ❤️ retweet and follow me if you think women in the UK should be allowed to carry pepper spray.

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

In the UK you can be sentenced for up to 10 years for carrying (not even using just carrying) pepper spray

That’s right, in a country where people are being stabbed randomly walking their dog or on the train

You can be jailed for trying to protect yourself

It’s not right

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

We must be allowed to carry pepper spray at the minimum

Imagine being stuck on a train with a maniac trying to stab you and having nothing at all to even try and fight back.

Legalise pepper spray NOW

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨KEIR STARMER JUST ADMITTED DIGITAL I.D WILL BE USED TO MAKE PAYMENTS AND ACCESS MONEY

We are turning into a communist state
He's just said the quiet bit out loud
THIS MUST BE STOPPED

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

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.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Freddie is looking down and giving y'all a standing ovation. That's spectacular!😍💗
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!
With 30 musicians and singers in the STREET of Paris 😍
Cre : Julien Cohen Pianist

[OnlyBangers @OnlyBangersEth]

This is the best Disney interaction I've ever seen 🥹🥹

[Emma G @81Emma]

@VirginAtlantic Thank you, phew!

[Emma G @81Emma]

@VirginAtlantic could I have some assistance please, I have submitted a refund quote request and the automated response received is saying it’s for an actual refund

[Emma G @81Emma]

@VirginAtlantic could I have some assistance please, I have submitted a refund quote request and the automated response received is saying it’s for an actual refund

[Qmum @Nancy023922191]

Does anyone do oil pulling?

[HinduHomeBoy @HinduHomeBoy]

@nocapmedia Amazon delivery driver walks straight through police standoff to deliver package

[Variety @Variety]

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[Olde Man Grim @OldeManGrim]

@dcuworld Here, someone fixed it for you hacks! 💯🤣

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Millie Bobby Brown delivers emotional speech after filming her last-ever scene of ‘Stranger Things.’