Graham Linehan’s Book

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Tough Crowd, due out 12 October. I’m delighted to see this. He is such a good writer and has sacrificed so much in defence of women’s rights and reality itself. Hope it’s a smash hit.

https://x.com/glinner/status/1702078826543448552?s=61&t=NHDSDk1MaF98_GOtcuLi0Q

Matt Berry said the IT crowd episode was of its time and he did not align with Graham now. “I don’t condone anything that that comedy portrayed, you know? I don’t share any views that the writer has.”

It was on 15 years ago - not 150 years. Surely, with something as basic as this, you would know what your views were on it, one way or the other?

I mean, it's not like any new evidence has come to light recently, has it - either you're a believer or you're not. And if it were, say, a traditional religious faith that you'd since embraced in the last few years, you would fully acknowledge that "I'VE changed"; you wouldn't say that not believing was of its time, but the world has now moved on in a decade or so, so that everybody surely must.

Apparently if you order it directly from the publisher (Eye books store) you will get a signed copy.

Just ordered mine, yes signed hopefully via the website.
I feel like the bloke who bought the first copy of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover"...

I would like to see this on the shelf at my local library

Can you still order books in libraries? Ones that they don't have, but they get them in for you, at your request; then, when you've read and returned them, they stay on the shelves for everybody else to borrow indefinitely?

I know they always used to - presumably they reckoned that, rather than guessing what people might want to borrow, they might as well order something with at least one guaranteed borrower.

If so, how many public libraries could then have a copy in them, if MNers from across the country all request it? And if any libraries refuse, on the (completely spurious) grounds that 'the author's views are controversial/hateful', ask why they stock Mein Kampf, then?!

I've also ordered through Eye Books. Will buy the audiobook too when it comes out.

That's good - now I can like him again.

Very much enjoying Willoughby's rage on the RA quote, which comes with a helpful round up of other celebrities who have been brave enough to speak for sense and science

What did Helena BC and Louis Theroux say? I must have missed those.

Thanks didn't know about this book.
I've ordered it direct from the publisher.

Looked on Twitter x and he said he preferred that but not an issue if you can't.

Free postage as well.

I am going to annoy my local Waterstones by buying it from them. I know it won’t be signed but I will enjoy asking the assistant whether they have it, and could they direct me to it. Yes, the assistant did have blue hair and a septum piercing last time I visited.

My friend in another country has just ordered it too thanks to me... spread the word.
I don't like being told what I can read, watch or listen to.

Glinner is going to be very busy signing his books.
I imagine he'll do some book tours too, but the tedium of having to fight your way through the mask clad posh boys - let's do it women! Im going to get Glinner to sign my book again twice!

Maybe they just looked a bit GC, or used a forbidden word like 'biological', 'female', or 'woman' in an offensive, bigoted way. A dogwhistle, if you like. Sometimes celebs give themselves away by what they DON'T say. For example, has anyone ever heard Helena B-C declare that trans rights are human rights, or that she'd be honoured to pee in the cubicle next to Paris Lees? Thought not. Burn the witch.

Ordered from the publishers. nocie

Helena Bonham-Carter's 'crime' was to say JK Rowling had been 'hounded' and that everyone is allowed their own opinion, I think.

Interested to know what Louis Theroux said to upset IW, last I heard he was TWAW.

Please let this be Graham's ascent back to normality. I can't think of many others persecuted more by our modern day puritans.

Transactivists need everyone to believe that all those who disagree with them are right-wing toxic males who belong in the nineteenth century. The more left-wing or liberal a dissenter is, the more viciously they get brought down.

A very dangerous and troubling sentiment.

I'm thinking of buying direct from the publisher but it doesn't say that it will be signed. Is that announced elsewhere?

Report in the DM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12517239/trans-activists-cancel-richard-ayoade-jonathan-ross-graham-linehans-book.html

Helena Bonham-Carter's 'crime' was to say JK Rowling had been 'hounded' and that everyone is allowed their own opinion, I think.

Everybody IS entitled to their own opinions, but they AREN'T entitled to their own...erm...y'know...well, whatever WE tell you that you must believe, right...

I've pre-ordered!

I hope the comment about a newspaper serialisation is true - this could lead to Glinner being vindicated when his actual comments are widely known.

I suspect that Glinner would have the support of the general public there's a lot of goodwill towards him because of Ted and IT crowd and a lot of people have no idea what has been done to him

Well, the old Activist Community are not loving the fact of this book's existence, that's for sure. I can say that from a brief perusal of twitter.