Telegraph interview with Graham Linehan

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Not a bad interview, though the interviewer, Camilla Tominey, seems a little antagonistic. And the photographs make him look quite angry and intimidating.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/02/graham-lineham-interview-father-ted-creator-cancelled-trans/

Here's an archive link

https://archive.ph/6vYoX#comment

This stood out to me, Glinner is fiercely opposed to transgender athletes competing in women’s sport.

Another journalist forgetting that women with trans identities exist. I think there was a female transgender swimmer who competed against Lia Thomas. As I recall no-one had a problem with that athlete, who had deferred taking testosterone though I think the breasts had gone.

Being reminded of the changes to Dahls books put me in mind of the destruction of the statues of Buddha that offended the Taliban. I think it's different points on the same spectrum. Old mores offending new beliefs.

Bluntly she does her best to make him sound mad throughout the whole thing. especially those last sentences.

“Obviously, it hasn’t done great things for my career, or my marriage, but I’m on very solid ground because I know I’m right.’
He pauses and, in the style of Mrs Doyle, repeats himself. ‘I know I’m right.’”

I hadn’t realised even Arthur Matthews abandoned him - bloody hell that’s sad. Oh and Dara o Briain being as much a spineless arse as I thought he was claiming to be confused by the whole thing 🙄

I hadn’t realised even Arthur Matthews abandoned him - bloody hell that’s sad. Oh and Dara o Briain being as much a spineless arse as I thought he was claiming to be confused by the whole thing.

That's almost funny. Dara O'Briain, whose main, perhaps sole schtick, is boasting about how clever and rational he is compared to the dimwits in the rest of the population, claims to be confused about whether humans can change sex. Time to stand in the corner wearing a dunce's cap, eh, Dara?

“I got a bunch of people to sign it, including John Cleese and Tom Stoppard. But the people I’d known like Dara Ó Briain said, “I won’t sign it, I’m confused by the issue.”
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‘How can you be confused by signing a letter saying JK Rowling should not be receiving death and rape threats? It’s a total cop out because a few weeks later, he’s on Twitter calling Eddie Izzard “she”.’”
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“When I suggest that he is misgendering Izzard, he replies, ‘How am I misgendering him? He’s a man.’ I point to the Equalities Act 2010, which protects people against discrimination on the grounds of gender.
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‘The Equalities Act also protects my belief that he’s a man. What I find extraordinary about Eddie is he’s an intelligent man. He’s an enormously talented person. For him to not understand that his going into women’s toilets means that men like Adam Graham [the transgender double rapist who identifies as Isla Bryson] can go into women’s toilets. I just don’t get how he doesn’t see that. I can only imagine that he does see it and he’s ignoring it.’”

Presumably the interviewer is a columnist, not a journalist? She lectures him on the Equality Act 2010 but is too lazy to check its title, and to check the protected characteristics which are: gender reassignment not gender, and sex.

She’s a royal reporter, originally anyway, and also presents on LBC or GBNews or somesuch. Can usually be found defending the Tories.

The comments are heartening - I hope Graham reads them.

It’s Hadley Freeman all over again - trying make Glinner out to be crazy for listening to his conscience and trying to stand against dangerous ideology.

Honestly, and exasperatingly, the ‘be nice’ crew exist on the GC side of the debate too and don’t seem to achieve as much as the stubborn, focused and outspoken types. And this month, it looks like some of the ‘be nice’ crew have decided to write pitying articles about Glinner, just as his book is being released. Very helpful of them…not.