Adrian

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

After wasting 2 1/2 years of everyone’s time isn’t it about time that @Linuslahoj and co at Glenbrook put their hands up, admit they dropped a clanger trying to demolish the UK’s oldest working cinema and walk away from The Electric?

Give it back to Birmingham.

[muse @museband]

'The Wow! Signal' has reached No. 1 in the @officialcharts. Marking our 8th #1 UK Record.

Thank you for being with us all the way.

[Adrian @kobavice]

@OldStationSt Because the BCC are one of the worst councils in the country

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Brummies don’t want our 116yr old Electric Cinema demolished for a block of flats by philistines at Manchester’s Glenbrook Property.

Brummies want the home of Heavy Metal refurbed by Japan’s neglectful Toyoko Inns or CPO’d by the council.

It’s that simple.
Birmingham Forever.

[Adrian @kobavice]

@DAZNBoxing AJ is Useless

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

DEADLINE TODAY!: Birmingham Local Plan 2042 ‘Culture Quarter’ excludes The 115yr old Electric Cinema 🤦‍♀️

You only have until 19th Dec to tell Birmingham Council you want REAL Electric included. Not Glennbrook’s sanitised culture washing.

Email: [email protected]

[Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation @HoodedClaw1974]

Morning all. Morning Sadiq @MayorofLondon 👇🤡😂😂😂

[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.

[Intel Lady @intel_lady]

Emma Watson finally breaks her silence and shares her truth about the rift with JK Rowling.
Spoiler alert- You may need some vinaigrette to consume this.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

The 29th August will be 18 months since Glenbrook Property bought and closed what was the UK's oldest working cinema. 115yrs of history under threat of being bulldozed.

Shall we organise a "Write to your MP/Glenbrook/Council" week?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate.

1. You're a man and I'm a woman.

2. You've been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn't become well known until I was well over 30.

3. I've never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain.

4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.

For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services. That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don't stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don't have the money/influence I have now.

You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.

Lastly, I'm a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

You don't need to invent the Birmingham Arts Quarter. You just need to give it some lovin'

The Electric Cinema
The Old Rep
The Crown
The Futurist
The Alex Theatre
The Victoria
Cherry Reds

@BrumLeader & @RichParkerLab just need to tie it all together and watch it glow

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

The Beatles Story in L'pool attracts 315k visitors each yr. Birmingham's arts heritage attracts about 20 people to a bench

Imagine the economic boost to Brum by delivering an arts powerhouse with The Crown, Electric Cinema, Old Rep, Victoria, Alex Theatre, Cherry Reds & Futurist

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

In 100 days #BlackSabbath host the biggest rock show in history to say goodbye

This is the state of Birmingham's spiritual home of music, The Crown

Birthplace of Sabbath, Heavy Metal & dozens of icons. Closed & Vandalised for 10 yrs

Local politicians: Where's your rescue plan?

[Adrian @kobavice]

@OldStationSt BCC are the worst

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

In any sensible city the UK's first Rep Theatre, the oldest working UK cinema AND the birthplace of Heavy Metal & Black Sabbath, all on one short street, would be held in trust, by the city, for the benefit of city residents, in perpetuity.

Sadly Birmingham is a basket case.

[Adrian @kobavice]

@LozzaFox They are the scum of the earth, zero sympathy for the people of that building site that elected them

[Adrian @kobavice]

@Riley_Gaines_ He can have a refund

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

Doctor Who is now nothing but a self-serving vanity project, made by the BBC for the BBC. If they weren't still funding it by conning money out of the British taxpayer, it would have been rightly cancelled years ago.