Luke Roberts

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[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.

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

I’m calling on my MP @danfrancis02 to back Long Live The Local. Pubs and breweries need our support! Sign today at https://t.co/tkbRpWREYw #longlivethelocal

[Ant Middleton @antmiddleton]

My number one policy and priority! Protect the people above all, no matter what and no matter the costs! My overall objective is to make London the safest city in the world within my first term. I am extremely confident that I can and will achieve this with my layered zero tolerance, accountability and detterent policies and with the right team that I’m currently building around me! 🫡🇬🇧

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

@PantoCME @royalhippodrome @mjbpanto Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed. 💙

[Caroline Elsey @PantoCME]

Real treat today, Eastbourne pier in the sunshine, fun rail replacement bus, and a great afternoon @royalhippodrome for an Easter panto with the brilliant @mjbpanto The whole cast had such energy especially @LukeRobertsTV and baby bear Rachel Cantrill.

[Simon Sladen @simonsladen]

#Panto Poster: @royalhippodrome's 2023 #panto Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs https://t.co/d2nQGNTAvO

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

Putting on my Jesters hat and spending Christmas back in sunny Eastbourne!! 🎅🏼
#pantomime #stage #theatre #comic #childrenstheatre #presenter #citv #royalhippodrome #seaside #singer #actor #dancer #hi5 #SnowWhite #disney @ThePantoArchive @simonsladen @royalhippodrome

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

Strange how British lawmakers and #GlobalistParasites are going after #RussellBrand but they didn't go after #Epstein who was a convicted pedophile.

Instead they go after a popular comedian and social media entertainer in the #UK who got too close to the truth and so they are trying to shut him down.

As far as I'm concerned and as far as the law is concerned people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Of course the #WEF2030Agenda cultists don't play fair and consider themselves above the law and better than everyone else.

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

This is happening

[Together @Togetherdec]

Yet another video demonstrating that if we have an air pollution problem in London at all, it is on the TUBE!

So when are you shutting the tube down, "Mr Clean Air" @MayorofLondon?

Of course you aren't, because stinging motorists £12.50 per day has NOTHING to do with clean air

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

BRAVO!!! @chrisedwards79

[westendproducer @westendproducer]

Good morning! #dear https://t.co/ougCVA0A9k

[Christian Edwards @chrisedwards79]

Cameron Mackintosh has said I can play Cosette in Les Mis if I get 15,000 retweets. Please RT and let my dream come true. #AHeartFullOfLove

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

How wages have faired.

MPs: Pay ⬆️ 22% in real terms since 2010

Bankers: Bonuses ⬆️ 101% in cash terms since 2008

CEOs: Pay ⬆️ 23% in 2022 alone

Teachers: Pay 🔻 24% since 2010

Nurses: Pay 🔻 20% since 2010

Whose wages are causing the inflation?

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

BRAVO!

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

Buy that woman a drink!

Woman hoses down Just Stop Oil protesters at Chelsea Flower Show - Sky News https://t.co/6bkwqy4H2y

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

@james_howdle @bbuk After you!! 😂😂😂

[Together @Togetherdec]

ULEZ:

"Our team checked the Office for National Statistics figure on deaths caused by pollution.

Between 2001-2021 (20 yrs), ONE death was caused by car emissions in London.

There's a vast disparity between @SadiqKhan's claims & what's suggested by @ONS"

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

Horrendous!!

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

60 all girls schools reported in 9 cities chemically attacked. No govt. in history has ever attacked its own children with chemical weapons IN SCHOOLS. Look how they treat a mother of a poisoned child. Video highlights grey suit bloke to identify him. #OpIran #IranRevolution

[Luke Roberts @LukeRobertsTV]

@annamorriscomic Please can you post their response?! #nameandshame

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

78 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz78

[NHS Nurses @SocialistNHS]

Sajid Javid calls for an introduction of a £20 fee to see GP and a £66 charge for A&E visits

If the Tories get their way this will be the end of the NHS as we know it

If you'll fight this with us please reply with a 💙.
#OurNHS