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

I find the idea of being arrested by 5 armed police at the airport quite frightening. The guns are quite large and prominent when I have seen them. They don't need to be drawn to be intimidating.

We aren't used to armed police on the UK so the armed police at the airport can be a shock.

What an absolute tool…..

Exactly. This is on the gov. Who of course try to deflect to the police.

Whoever sanctioned this arrest, really doesn’t understand what a massive mistake they have made. Or maybe they do now!

Looking at Hayden on TwiX this morning - seems to be claiming superior knowledge of events leading up to Glinners arrest.

Must be handy seeing someone arrested on arrival when they’re returning for a court date involving your 18 yr old buddy.

Plus you’ve got the TiM sacked police officer on a witch-hunt for anyone mentioning his name.

Well no, I don’t think they have been ‘instructed by the government’ to do any such thing. In fact they’ve been instructed by the government, and reiterated quite clearly today by Starmer, that they should be prioritising actual crimes and not arresting for tweets

The reality seems to be possibly, hopefully temporarily, somewhat worse - that the Met is not acting in accordance with what the democratically elected politicians are now saying, rather some of the senior ranks are still so institutionally captured that they’re still indulging in this sort of ridiculous behaviour.

Have those all been archived? I'll do it if not.

Alas, I have to lecture today
I suspect you have to lecture every day 🤔

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjg0pe26no

Front pages.

I just don't understand how they thought it would go down?

Are people at the top still this divorced from reality and the public mood?

As others have said, why the airport? Why not a quiet word when Glinner appeared at Court (which are often close to a police station so more convenient anyway)?

Someone wanted to make a statement.

Starmer can say what he likes to cover his hide we are in this position due to mad laws that lead to arrest.

https://open.substack.com/pub/grahamlinehan/p/my-arrest-as-it-happened?r=7rqwr&utm_medium=ios

I'm wondering if Glinner could claim refugee status in the US as a result of this appalling and illegal behaviour by the police. We know Trump and the US in general is a big defender of free speech. We've seen one GC woman from Brazil. already get refugee status in Europe as a result of political persecution due to her biological reality based beliefs.

It’s so OTT I half think whoever’s desk the complaint leading to the arrest landed on thought ‘this is ludicrous. Ok, let’s jump the shark once and for all. It’s the creator of Father Ted, let’s act out a farce.’
Probably not, but it’s far more rational than this person thinking it was in any way an appropriate response which wouldn’t backfire massively.

I think this might be the final peaking for many people. You'd think men punching women in the face and stealing gold might have done it, or rapists in women's prisons, or dicks in women's changing rooms, or the idea of lesbians with penises. But a lot of people don't care about those. They do, however, care about being able to say stuff.

Mine was ‘foolish enough to cross me’

The SEEN one is on BlueSky.

He's still going? He must have the world's biggest fridge poetry collection.

"What accounts for the hold trans activists have on the police? Footage of Sir Mark Rowley gyrating in a thong stuffed with roubles? Photographs of senior constables sacrificing puppies to Baal? Whatever the kompromat is, it’s working."

I think Jo has hit the nail on the head here:

thecritic.co.uk/graham-linehans-arrest-is-stupid-and-sinister/

I’ve just found the Guardian’s take on this.

They seem to be misrepresenting what he said and tweeted.
He said the posts related to him challenging a “trans-identified male” in a “female-only space”.

They do not include screenshots of the tweets which clearly indicate he’s suggesting women should challenge such men in their space.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/02/father-ted-creator-graham-linehan-arrested-over-posts-on-transgender-issues

@ArabellaScott

This one from Hayden is interesting. Might be completely unrelated but interesting how some people seem to have access to the polis.

They can that's what sandie peggie has done to Theodore/Beth Upton.
Also if a man watches unconsenting women undressed it voyeurism which is a crime. And if he strips naked infront of unconsenting women its indecent exposure another crime.
The question is why aren't the police arresting the men doing this?

This arrest is particularly chilling given we know GC people have been threatened physically as well as threatened multiple times with death and there has also been incitement to 'punch a terf' and no arrests have been made.

We also know women are stalked and harassed and the police do nothing - how many stories do we have to hear of abusive ex's stalking and threatening women and the police doing nothing until the women are dead.

They didn't do anything to Wayne Couzens (one of their own) after he was reported flashing at a McDonalds. The McDonald's staff reported this crime in law, the police did nothing, and the next day he abducted then killed Sarah Everard as by that point presumably he felt invincible.

Men in women's spaces is illegal - the supreme court confirmed this - and yet women clearly have no protection from voyeurism and indecent exposure in their single sex spaces. What's happened to Graham shows if we complain about men being illegally in our spaces, committing indecent exposure, we'll be the ones getting arrested. It's too late once you realise the trans identified male in your space is getting his penis out. The police won't protect you. Graham's advice is really the only option to women, other than completely excluding yourself from public life and public spaces altogether.

The strong message I'm getting from police actions is that women only can expect any police action on threats or violence against them once they're dead. But obviously by then it's too late.

But stating the truth that some people in high positions don't like? THAT is cause for arrest.

It's not actually illegal for men to use women's toilets.

As others have said, the fact that police are armed at airports isn’t the point here. It’s not ‘well they weren’t going to shoot him, they just carry them anyway.’ It’s the decision to arrest him at one of the very few places where police are armed.

Glinner is currently living in America where armed police are the norm - but that’s not the case here. We’re not used to seeing & interacting with armed police, I find the sight of them slightly unnerving.

The authorities could have approached him at numerous other locations. Was ‘Sarah Jane’ punch a terf Baker arrested in a similar fashion? Happy to be corrected if he was.

I think it was very strategic, all about the optics, & a warning. Hopefully it’s spectacularly backfired, & I hope Glinner decides to sue the arse off them. I’ll certainly contribute towards that.