Domino's has made a statement mocking PlayStation's plans to move their games all from discs to digital.
“Domino's UK will cease production of physical pizzas and shift to production of digital pizzas only.”
@noelorand She could have contacted me privately any time to say her views had changed, if they have. I'd have been entirely supportive. What she's chosen to do instead is yet another bit of public brand repositioning, without talking to me, but using me for her purpose. It's getting old.
@jk_rowling That hand-writted note reveals something central to celebrity culture: that they expect the venal lies they tell in public to be understood as such in private, regardless of the cost they generate for others.
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.
Hommage à #Louise, 11 ans, collégienne retrouvée sans vie dans un bois dans l'#Essonne près de Longjumeau.
Elle avait disparu à la sortie de son collège à Epinay-sur-Orge.
Sincères condoléances à sa famille, ses amis et ses camarades de classe.
Hana, our youngest member of Parliament, has taken our resistance to this divisive bill global - it’s on all the news, everywhere.
I am so proud of her leading the way! 🥺🖤🤍❤️
✊🏾 stunning and moving show of resistance as New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament to protest the bill that would reinterpret the nation’s founding treaty with indigenous Māori. Hearts afire for MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke who started the haka and also ripped the bill up❤️🔥
New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret country's founding treaty with Māori People.
https://t.co/hSKbEcPL4t
Toitū Te Tiriti! First reading vote of the Treaty Principles Bill didn't go through because Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipa-Clarke started a haka in the house. EPIC!
🔥Unprecedented & simply magnificent. That time in Nov 2024 when a haka led by Aotearoa’s youngest MP 22yo Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke erupted in the House stopping the Treaty Principles Bill from passing its first reading, triggering the Speaker to suspend Parliament.
#ToitūTeTiriti
#KillTheBill
WE NEED TO ELECT PEOPLE TO CONGRESS WHO HAVE THIS MUCH PASSION FOR OUR COUNTRY and WE THE PEOPLE, NOT DONORS FUNDS
NEW ZEALAND 🇳🇿 Newly elected Parliament member Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, representing Te Pāti Māori, gives a traditional war cry on the floor of the legislative chamber.
🇳🇿 New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performed a haka in a powerful speech during her first appearance in parliament.
Maipi-Clarke is Aotearoa’s youngest MP since 1853 and is seen as representing the 'kohanga reo' generation of young Māori.