Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow

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Arrested again! Details on his Substack. This is beyond a joke; 5 armed officers!

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got-arrested-again

'All that is just testimony to transactivists having the power to use the state, the police and the legal system to harass their critics'

It's an own goal though, glinner will have more support now than ever before. Well done TRAs!

Wtaf. The world has gone 😠

When I was at school we had a couple of rape survivors come in to give us self-defence lessons. 'Kick or punch the attacker in the balls and then go for his eyes' was one of the tactics taught. Were we actually being instructed to go about sexually assaulting poor violent men?

"a tsunami of explicit, violent death and rape threats against GC women don't matter"
It isn't "a tsunami" in any place other than your head. And of course death and rape threats matter; they matter very deeply, and should be treated very seriously. I agree they aren't always, and that in itself is criminal, but please try to keep a sense of proportion.

Have you seen the signs calling for the punching, decapitation or death of TERFS? Seen the TERF is a slur website? Read what disgusting things these trans identified men tweet and write on reddit?

You can take issue with the use of tsunami if you like, but you can't deny (if you've got eyes and a brain that is) that the violent bile that comes from the TRA side is copious.

Don't you dare tell women to get a sense of proportion over this! Clearly we have a better sense of proportion over this than you do.

TERF is a slur | Documenting the abuse, harassment and misogyny of transgender identity politics

Edit: accidentally wrote twitter instead of reddit, and to highlight the quote.

'He also sexually harassed and threated to drag a trans woman out a toilet by her "kinky boots". I'm disappointed he wasn't charged for that.'

What's wrong with that? They do often wear kinky style outfits. It was a bit of mild mocking. You need to toughen up like us women have had to.

'All that is just testimony to transactivists having the power to use the state, the police and the legal system to harass their critics'

Sorry, but that's simply not true. It's also beginning to sound more than a little like paranoia.

The TRA's don't have that power, don't control the state. Or the police. Or the legal system.

Those institutions exist to implement and enforce the law. If a crime is committed, as Linehan has done, then the state steps in.
Your personal feelings, as genuinely as you believe them, are utterly immaterial.

Now I do agree that many, many people - on both sides of the ideological nonsense that's sprung up - get away with some truly vile behaviour that really should, by actual and moral law, be brought to account, but the simple fact is the police haven't the resources to do so and that - and you can understand why - there's a desire to target the high profile cases as a priority, since they are more likely to influence whichever tribal group happens to exhault that particular person.

You'd be right. Straight out of the TRA playbook.

'Have you seen the signs calling for the punching, decapitation or death of TERFS? Seen the TERF is a slur website? Read what disgusting things these trans identified men tweet and write on twitter?'

Exactly. I suppose saying drag him out by his kinky boots may sound as horrific to some as 'decapitate terfs' but you'd really have to wonder at their comprehension skills tbh.

Well, given that Alan “Sarah Jane” Baker got away with exhorting a crowd, “if you see a terf, punch ‘em in the fucking face!” by claiming it was a publicity stunt/joke - and that was actually inciting gratuitous, aggressor-led violence rather than there being any suggestion of it being self defence - then Glinner should have no problem mounting a successful defence that this was very obviously a joke.

Because it’s not like there are any double standards here, is it.

FIVE armed police officers.

Fucking hell.

And he was actually speaking of Eddie Izard who for many years denied being trans and didn’t claim to be a woman. Eddie is happy to have his original name and pronouns used. Why wouldn’t he be?! He still takes male roles on film.

And he shouldn’t have been in the women’s toilets, kinky boots or none, as the SC ruling emphasised.

I think Eddie would have appreciated the humour in those tweets to be honest. He’s not an arse.

Surprised to read you alleging this, as I’ve never read or heard JKR saying anything homophobic.

Can you provide some links to her actual words to back up your claim?

"If a crime is committed, as Linehan has done, then the state steps in"

Those tweets were not a crime ffs.

a) You the one making biased presumptions. Most women posting here have seen more than enough evidence of transactivist lies and double standards. “[our] tribalistic mentality” is a gratuitous insult. You do find it hard to resist these, don’t you? Is it a kind of genderist Tourette’s?

b) What criminal statements has Linehan made? Evidence, please.

c) look at terfisaslur for a taste of the endless tsunami of misogynistic rage transgenderists pour over feminists.

d) “Be kind” is the order transactivists used to give to anyone who dared question men’s alleged right to intrude in women’s spaces. Of course it’s now used ironically.

All this 'Jo' and 'Graham' stuff, like you have them over for tea every other Wednesday... 🙄

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/graham-linehan-claims-he-was-arrested-for-tweets-heathrow/

"Sir Keir Starmer has told police to concentrate on tackling serious crime after Graham Linehan was arrested over gender-critical social media posts.
The Prime Minister criticised the Metropolitan Police after the comedy writer* was arrested by five armed officers at Heathrow airport as he got off a flight.
The Father Ted writer, who has become vocal critic of transgender ideology, said he was detained “like a terrorist” and locked in a cell for making jokes online.
His case has triggered a backlash, with Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, set to raise his arrest in free speech discussions with allies of Donald Trump in Washington this week.
On Tuesday afternoon the Prime Minister’s spokesman suggested police should be concentrating on issues that “matter most to their communities”.
He said: “This is an operational matter for the police, but the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have been clear about what their priorities on crime and policing are: that’s tackling antisocial behaviour, shoplifting and street crime as well as reducing serious violent crime such as knife crime and violence against women.”
The spokesman continued: *“The Met Police Commissioner himself has talked previously about recruits joining the police to protect the public, and that he wants the police to exist to protect the public, spending their time dealing with the issues that matter most to their communities.”"

‘Punch him in the nuts’ referring to someone who’s invaded the women’s bathrooms is so not incitement to violence. FFS.

"Have you seen the signs calling for the punching, decapitation or death of TERFS? Seen the TERF is a slur website? Read what disgusting things these trans identified men tweet and write on reddit?", etc., etc.

An emotive response is rarely a good idea.

Did you miss the part of my post in which I said "And of course death and rape threats matter; they matter very deeply, and should be treated very seriously", or did you blank it through confirmation bias? If you did miss it, please read it again; it's pretty plain that I think all such threats are hideous and should be dealt with seriously.

Unfortunately, it's simply not the case that they are.
My assumption, and it is an assumption, is that this happens not because they are targeted at self-labelled 'TERFs' but because those posting in the kinds of place you helpfully mentioned simply aren't significant enough for the police to bother with.
I agree, they should; but it's naïve to think they will.

Hope this has helped clarify things for you.

IMO the aim for Chris's posts is to wind us up. It doesn't work, he just looks really, stupid and comes across as quite the sad character.

It's not like he's here to convince us, because we know what the craic is, we know he's talking bollocks.

He's not trying to convince lurkers or those who aren't as well informed as the FWR regulars because he never posts elsewhere on MN about any of this.

He doesn't stick to reddit or twitter where his brand of bullshit would at least find an appreciative audience.

He just comes straight here, to where he knows a large number of feminist women are.

Oh, it absolutely is a tsunami.

And has been for YEARS. Years. Constant threats of very male violence. Death threats. Rape threats.

God, I'm sick of these pathetic, VAWG enablers. Do you actually hear yourselves? Do you think turning a blind eye to documented threats of violence (they are openly spouted on EVERY "trans rights" march there is, let alone to women personally and on social media, so pretending you don't see them is disingenuous in the extreme) makes you "progressive" in any way whatsoever? Telling blatant lies about them to try to make it excusable to threaten and abuse women who won't do your bidding?

I'll say it again. You are VAWG enablers, supporters of violent misogynists who spout the exact same rhetoric as violent woman-hating domestic abusers and incels do about women who dare not to be subservient to them. Absolute scum.

Yes but is tweeting so serious an offence that one must be arrested at the airport.

I hope they've tackled all the serious crime before they got to this.

You're right, of course.

But my god, it's pathetic.

💯

boring too. And definitely a man.

Another deliberate tactic to wind up the wims 🙄

Good heavens! A sensible, rational, and meaningful statement by our Prime Minister.

I mean, he's not wrong; but it's so rare these days he's right!