BREAKING: Father Ted Creator Graham Linehan Arrested at Heathrow for Trans Tweets
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has said he was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport over a series of gender-critical tweets. The Mail has the story.
The Irish comedy writer, who was flying to London from Arizona, alleges that he was detained immediately after he stepped off the plane.
He claims he was escorted to a private area, where he was informed he was “under arrest for three tweets”.
The 57 year-old has shared the tweets which he says police arrested him over. One from April 20th said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
A second tweet, on April 19th, was a picture of a trans rally with the caption: “A photo you can smell.” The third was a follow up to this tweet which said: “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.”
Linehan claimed he was later escorted to A&E “because the stress nearly killed me”, adding that his blood pressure was recorded at over 200mmHg by a nurse.
Worth reading in full.
Read Graham’s Substack post about the arrest here.
Stop Press: The Free Speech Union is backing Graham. It’s posted on X:
When @Glinner landed at Heathrow, he was met by five armed police officers, and immediately arrested.
His ‘crime’? Three gender-critical tweets.
As Graham says in his Substack:
“In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer.”
Graham’s single bail condition is that he does not go on X.
We do not believe Graham’s arrest or the bail conditions imposed were lawful. We will be backing him all the way in his fight against these preposterous allegations and the disproportionate response from the police.
Stop Press 2: J.K. Rowling has condemned Linehan’s arrest as “utterly deplorable”. She tweeted: “‘What the f*** has the UK become? This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.”
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Well let’s look on the bright side. At least they’re not beating up kids outside the Bell hotel.
It is becoming more and more obvious that the authorities are looking to provoke a reaction which they can come down hard upon.
It seems an unbelievably stupid and dangerous tactic, which will almost certainly lead to blood in the streets and a change of government (not that that would necessarily be a bad thing).
And yet Queen Camilla gets away with quoting her mother’s very sensible advice? Off with her heels! Vive la Reine!
I really admired her for her fierce, fighting spirit in that situation.
All our girls and women in the West need to be taught such things.
The third was a follow up to this tweet which said: “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.”
Are “our” increasingly weird and demented police now of the view that misogyny and homophobia are okay if a “protected community” expresses them? Is that their interpretation of the law?
It’s amazing that the reason for these ideological zealots in supporting minorities is to allow them freedom to more or less do anything they like. They achieve this by taking away the freedom of others.
They are a bunch of dangerous nutcases.
The police are only doing what they are told to do. They have families to feed.
So did the Gestapo…
Another one of those moments when the reality of the world we live in hits you in the face.
You sort of know these are the rules, because they’ve been announced and discussed at length, but deep down you hope it’s not really going to happen or it won’t really end up being quite how you fear.
Then something like this occurs and your worst fears are realised and the hyperbole you used to describe the new rules – like, we’re turning into the Soviet Union – are shown not to be hyperbolic at all.
Depressing. Very very depressing.
My friends in the USA fear for the citizens of the UK. And you don’t even guns. Just a corrupt gov’t.
Watched him with Joe Rogan the other day. I’m glad he’s mostly living in the US now, I wish I could escape there too.
Both the trans “community” and the government are intent on ruining the man after already taking his relationships… They’re pure evil, disgusting humans.
Queer-Trans Fascism. I was opposed to Faggot marriage. My argument – the slippery slope. Now look at it. A perfectly normal bloke arrested for ‘tweets’ about mentally ill perverts and psychos called Trans ??? WTF ??? Yet real crime goes unpunished.
Soviet Britain with Muzzies and Queers/Trans as the KGB.
“...slippery slope…”
😀😀😀
In the anarcho-tyranny state the police no longer serve the public.
Real crime like theft burglaries and stabbings. Where are your police then britain?
I’ve such admiration for this man and his continuous quest to speak the truth of biological reality and his defence of women’s sex-based rights. All whilst risking personal and professional jeopardy to himself, and he’s documented well how he has suffered as a result of his continued defiance of this ideology.
If Kellie-Jay Keen is a “woman who will not whisht”, Graham is the male equivalent. I’ve much sympathy for people who end up getting into trouble for being unapologetically opinionated, forthright and outspoken, when their views are guaranteed to not be well received by the majority or meet certain people’s approval. But only cowards and shills are motivated by pleasing others instead of uncompromisingly standing by their principles.
Graham, you have my full support and I 100% concur: I too hate misogynists, homophobes and racists. “F*** ’em” indeed.💯👍
Totally agree Mogs, except for ‘not be well received by the majority ‘, because his words are the beliefs of the majority. It is the neo communist state minority being imposed on us that don’t like the words and as with any extremist minority state, oppression, imprisonment and silencing the majority through fear is the only way they retain power.
Yes, agreed. However, when I wrote that bit I was referring more to my own experiences on here, when I regularly challenge other posters on their comments, bring contradictory evidence to the discussion, ( when I’m not censored by Mr Moderator ) highlight nuances and generally throw a spanner in the works of the ‘hive mind’/consensus. It’s always me versus the majority, which often doesn’t go down well with many supposedly pro-free speech peeps ( safety in numbers/conformity, and all that ), but that’s never put me off. 😁
Cue the Violins…
“Haters gonna hate”…stalkers gonna stalk.🤷♀️ My mere presence on this site really does trigger you, doesn’t it? I suppose that’s what happens when you’ve developed a personal fixation and vendetta against an individual poster. You go after them at every available opportunity, such is your level of obsession with them.
Unstable, much? 🥴
🤡
You said, ” I’ve much sympathy for people who end up getting into trouble for being unapologetically opinionated, forthright and outspoken, when their views are guaranteed to not be well received by the majority or meet certain people’s approval…I too hate misogynists, homophobes and racists.”
In that case, your views are just the normal views of Any Woke Leftist, so I don’t understand your implication of some kind of rebellious attitude.
Oops, I guess somebody got triggered by the words: “misogynists”, “homophobes” and “racists”. Can’t think why….🤔
It’s worrying that someone who thinks sex is assigned at birth is allowed to carry a gun. If cops are recruited from university graduates, surely they ought to know about conception and chromosomes.
It’s also worrying that gender equality and Stonewall nonsense has spread to France. I stopped for a male pee at one of their refurbished aires or motorway rest areas and found about 20 cars using 2 unisex standard wc pans without seats, naturally unusable by any woman, no matter how desperate. I advised one to use some bushes and felt some resentment at my privileged biology.
Let’s hope the Trump administration hears about this and has a chat with Kneel.
200mm is pretty punchy. Our local doc says his ‘patient record breaker’ was a walk-in of 220mm. No walking out though–ambulance hailed instantly.
The official accusation against him (according to the Mail article) is incitement of violence,
something that’s obviously not applicable to that other well-known slogan of a while ago, Punch a TERF!, as there’s certainly no two keir justice in Britain. Says prime minister Sir Tier Starmer.
I would definitely go straight home and report each and every threat that I have received – I’m sure there are lots of them and way more aggressive/explicit.
But I’m hearing he’s now banned from X?
I think threats made on the internet should generally be ignored as the people issueing them are certainly not in the position to make good of them hic et nunc and what they’ll maybe do at a later time can’t be known until then. Probably, nothing at all, as they’re too busy threatening others on the internet because these others are also not in a position where they could do anything about it.
On a related note, incitement of violence should be reserved for situations where a speaker who’s physically present tries to push a group of listeners who are also physcially present emotionally over the edge to turn them into a mob which will actually engage in some violent action and not someone posting one-liners on X because he likes them and thinks his followers will, too.
Stasi Strikes again!
As Sir Keir Twerp said, we have always had free speech it part of our tradition.
I sincerely hope that Graham Linehan secures good legal counsel and is cleared in court (if it gets that far). Then he might sue the Police for over zealous policing since it allegedly affected his health.
He’d better not hire anyone from Matrix Chambers!
I’m pretty sure the Free Speech Union will be all over this one like a rash. It’s why I am a member and always happy to donate when they do a crowdfunder.
Crowd funder now open
Love you, Glinner. More people like you in the world, please. All common folk stand with you. And some not so common folk, too.
This tyranny is coming straight from Starmer, the WEF drone.
The list of political prisoners is getting longer. If they are held just for a few hours, they are prisoners. The judges must be involved in this Orwellian tyranny too.
Apparently he’s annoyed, but it’s because it makes him look bad. He doesn’t care one jot about Graham Linehan, nor us.
Disgraceful…
A colleague has a sticker saying ‘fight terfs’ on her laptop – can I get her arrested?
I’d add another sticker (the kind that’s really hard to remove) with something that would definitely get her in trouble (say, some Arab writing on green background) and then send an anonymous tip to HR.
“FIVE ARMED POLICE OFFICERS” arrested a comedy writer for tweets?
I thought there was a shortage of police officers…
You know… for protecting the public from violent criminals…
the starmer stasi
I do believe The Establishment is looking for a new political prisoner, now Lucy Connolly has been released and they failed to prosecute Tommy Robinson due to there being no evidence that he assaulted anyone.
Grateful this gentleman has money. He should be able to hide a solicitor well versed in the issue of free speech and the state banning of it. This country should be ashamed. The world is watching.
Oh that our glorious fuzz was to herd in such numbers around my hood. We have a mini crime wave going on. We are lucky if we see one rozzer let alone five, rear end welded to his car seat, speed by on his way to have a chat with someone about hurty words no doubt. Investigate true crime? Nah! Too busy doing other things mate!