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

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If so, none of them have been pulled up either

If it’s in relation to the Equality Act through a claim of unlawful discrimination I imagine, A man arguing that if some men can go in then all men should be able to

It's very likely Lynsay Watson, a trans identifying man who was a former policeman but was dismissed due to gross misconduct. He has made many other vexatious complaints.

Yes, I do think that ultimately this provides very helpful sunlight indeed. The fact the PM felt the need (or - much more likely - was advised) to comment tells its own tale.

The problem is that Glinner pays a very heavy price for that, of course.

Please post a regular intervals as a reminder.

The purpose is to derail, the make threads tedious.

To stop those who want the opportunity to share and develop on a topic the opportunity to do so - without interruption.

A bit like the responses to the outragseous notion that men should Let Women Speak.

It's the employer that would be subject to criminal law.

Persons disadvantaged by the person committing the offence could bring a civil case against the employer. Not sure if they could bring a civil case against the offender.

ETA: clarity

Which leads to the second development – the police’s capture by this and other ‘woke’ ideologies. Linehan describes how in his police interview a police officer mentioned trans people: “I asked him what he meant by the phrase. ‘People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.’ I said: ‘Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.’ He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language.’

This is the nub of it. The police, supposed guardians of the law, have become players in the activists’ capture of the institutions. It is not that they are no longer concerned with crime, but that they are redefining what crime is. It is terrible that Linehan should have had to go through this. But if it wakes more of us up to what is happening in Britain, his arrest will have served our country well.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/09/graham-linehans-freedom-of-speech and in full at https://archive.is/MXIFz

Yes I agree. coming hot on the heels of sandie Peggie & #theoupton trending, X is full of ppl who previously had keep quiet suddenly saying "woah this is a massive over reach"

but the impact on Graham himself is just so awful

I think the workplace regulations apply to employee facilities rather than public toilets in general. I think when TRAs use the wrong toilets they identify the organisations that don’t have single sex toilets or changing rooms. Other men could then attempt to use the same facilities and make a claim for discrimination if they were barred. Probably

That what I thought. I don’t imagine the TRAs would be as handy if they thought they’d face arrest on a criminal charge. Although presumably they could if they refused to leave when asked.

The 'be kind' bullshite needs shot into the fucking sun.

particularly when it's added as a hashtag to the end of a teeth grindingly patronising post which basically boils down to 'you're not saying it nicely enough!!'

I suspect it's the same fuckers who teach their children that other godawful phrase 'sharing's caring' meaning 'hand it over now because I want it and if you don't, you're meeeeaaaan'

Piss off.

I have never heard of a police procedure where you must not go on X - surely precedents would include “must not use a telephone / send a letter” - and they are usually part of a restraining order against a particular person. I am no expert in this area, but is that even a legal thing police can impose?

Agree - this story is everywhere now. As others have said, the effect on Glinner is awful but he has put up with this kind of thing for years. This incident might just be the tipping point - the writer of father ted arrested by five armed police at a time when the police aren’t responding to vast numbers of crimes. It’s a huge story - and clearly demonstrates the overreach. Fingers crossed it’s the thing that finally brings home to people what this hideous ideology has done - and gets glinners’ career back on track. I still want to see father ted the musical!

I so miss 2005. Men still made tits of themselves while trying to patronise women online, but occasionally they were entertaining. Nowadays it's just "no I never" (yes you did) and a ton of rambling word salad attempting a superior tone, and they think that's all it takes. It's low effort and worst of all, it's boring.

However, it is why they're losing. Well, one reason why. Arresting comedy writers for tweets saying "you smell" while ignoring the tsunami of rape and death threats these guys don't care about is hastening the process.

Agree - this story is everywhere now. As others have said, the effect on Glinner is awful but he has put up with this kind of thing for years. This incident might just be the tipping point - the writer of father ted arrested by five armed police at a time when the police aren’t responding to vast numbers of crimes. It’s a huge story - and clearly demonstrates the overreach. Fingers crossed it’s the thing that finally brings home to people what this hideous ideology has done - and gets glinners’ career back on track. I still want to see father ted the musical!

https://x.com/the_limberlost/status/1962896236836511961?s=46&t=BRUxTjZ34agAPkVo-fi3zA

Utter madness.

Who ordered the arrest? That’s the question that needs answering.

Prominent TRAs are never described in terms of their stance on women's rights, and yet campaigners for women's rights are always described in relation to their "stance on the trans rights debate".

Supposedly trans rights have no impact whatsoever on women's rights, whilst simultaneously, women's rights are deemed to be entirely incompatible with trans rights.

I know - what is the world coming to?

To add, I believe Caroline Farrow is suing the Sorry police for wrongful arrest and discrimination under the EA.

Yeah that’s obviously sarcasm.

I will confess I have made similar comments. Many photos available online show people with only a limited relationship with soap and water.

Not only that, it's obviously parodying the deluge of death threats from TRAs.

Nobody is so stupid as to think it's a serious attempt to intimidate people with a threat of violence. It's not even an angry outburst. It's a clear piss take.

Good I hope she wins!

I know it was probably an unintentional typo, but Sorry police did make me laugh because it's so apt! 😂