Graham Linehan Interviewed on Triggernometry

I am a massive Divine Comedy fan and really upset that Neil Hannon has let Glinner down so badly. He's now in the ascendant writing the music for the Wonka movie and Glinner is in the gutter.

I also think Glinner has suffered through being male. He's been thrown out of his own circles but can't fully enter terf circles and enjoy the cameraderie that offers. He seems so isolated and lonely.

'Back to Glinner: my heart broke a little to hear he hid his car in case it got repossessed'

Same here. As Konstantin said, the Father Ted musical would have been a licence to print money. Glinner could have been a multi-millionaire by now. Instead, he's penniless and as he repeatedly said, for what reason? He's not a Nazi, he doesn't want anyone harmed (quite the opposite), he has never tried to incite violence. He's told the truth, and refused to parrot nonsense, and his whole life has been trashed for it

I have very mixed feelings about his colleagues who he named in the interim, like Graham Norton, Arthur Matthews and Neil Hannon. On the one hand, I can see how they don't want their lovely careers trashed by openly supporting him. On the other hand, I can understand why Glinner feels so let down and betrayed by them

Back to Glinner: my heart broke a little to hear he hid his car in case it got repossessed

You'll be fine,make sure there's enough turkey for a sandwich on Boxing Day.

Yes. Does Beaty Know It's Christmas At All

Poor @BeatyBlack , maybe we could all chip in and send them an FWR hamper, tunnocks and so on.

Another Christmas Day shouting at the internet awaits I suspect. Little turkey dinner for one maybe.

I'm sorry you don't have anyone to share your Christmas Day with, and that you only have a small bird. Watch something else, maybe? Love Actually is on Netflix.

Another Christmas Day shouting at the internet awaits I suspect. Little turkey dinner for one maybe.

On a separate note, I saw Speed the other day and it reminded me of all the scenes in the Father Ted parody with the milk float bomb (rather than the other way round).

It seems that it's an acknowledged issue and, unfortunately, it doesn't always redound to people's credit or reputation.

There's a phenomenon known as 'premature anti-[X]' and two of the best known instances are to have been a premature anti-fascist or a premature anti-Nazi.

‘Premature anti-fascist’ was the name by which the Lincoln Brigade veterans of the Spanish Civil War were known by the US Army in World War Two. This service and knowledge didn't distinguish them for a leadership position, it was counted as demerit on their record.

In John Platts-Mills' autobiography (barrister and post-war Labour MP), he recalls being ‘excluded from any form of normal war service by the stupidities of Bevin’. He noted: ‘An anti-Nazi history, was of no help and to have been prematurely anti-Nazi was a positive hindrance … we were condemned throughout most of the 1930s on the grounds that only Communists were against the Nazis and this hostility carried over into the war years.’

Commenting on (British?) veterans of the Spanish Civil War, Platts-Mills wrote that ‘many lefties who had served in Spain were called up or were accepted when they volunteered. Several more got in only after a tussle with the authorities.’
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4366709-Abigail-Shrier-Marci-Bowers-critical-of-puberty-blockers?watched=1&msgid=111375587

[I posted this in the Hadley Freeman comment about Glinner (in case it looks familiar)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4903960-hadley-freeman-article-about-graham-linehan?reply=129413739&utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share&utm_source=copylink ]

Thanks. It was nice to hear a comedian being so positive about Graham Linehan’s comedy writing.

Great, got it lined up for tonight. I've got very mixed feelings about the Triggernometry guys but they can be very good, and are consistently sane on trans issues, since been enlightened by Kellie Jay!

Thank you for posting this. I have just watched it. What that man has been through, for standing up for principles… and it is still going on.

I am disgusted with his former friends and colleagues who have not only failed to support him, but actively distanced themselves.

I just finished listening to it. Legend.

Thanks for the link. Watching now.