Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow

[IDareSay]

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

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

At worst the women here will laugh at you.

I think that’s the worst fear of the men who come here to scold & ‘educate’ us. We’re not intimidated or afraid of them, we see right through the nonsense they spout.

And of course they’re sometimes inadvertently very funny. Never on purpose, TRAs & their allies are the most joyless group of people I’ve ever encountered. No warmth, no humour, just bitterness & spite.

Complains about echo chamber while making post asserting their own mind.

Amazing.

1:2:24 on

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbcradiofourfm?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

…no, not a ‘transgender person. A transgender male’.

To be fair, the tweet concerned did threaten violence. Obviously the response was over the top-but there did need to be some sanction…

Violence as a last resort in the context of an unwanted male being in a women’s space where the law says they should not be.

Self defence advice against boundary invaders as a last resort is violence?

I make my dad turn him off when i get in the car…

Think my post must have whooshed over your head....
Yes, I have my own mind. We all do. Except you wouldn't think it on here when any dissenting post is dismissed as "you lot" "your ilk".

“As an immediate way of protecting our officers from the situation we find ourselves in today, we will be putting in place a more stringent triaging process to make sure only the most serious cases are taken forward in future – where there is a clear risk of harm or disorder.
“But officers across the country will have to make similar decisions in future unless the law and guidance is changed or clarified. I hope to see this happen without delay so policing’s focus can be squarely on tackling priority issues like street crime and serious violence.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/03/met-police-chief-calls-for-review-of-law-after-graham-linehan-arrest

What is your idea of 'some sanction'?

Disagreement in the echo chamber? Surely not.

Don’t tell Dame Katy Denise that!

“Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails punch him in the balls." That ‘if all else fails’ is key.

That is a good idea but common sense at least shoukd have made them question why five officers? And at Heathrow? Where there might be terrorists and drug smugglers?

The tweet also referred to men who were using women's spaces. The subset here is men who are breaking the rules, invading spaces, transgressing boundaries.

So yes, abusive men as a subset of men.

Being abusive is not a protected characteristic. It's not the 'gender reassignment' part that is in question, its being in a women's space, that the law has made clear these men are not entitled to be in.

It advised women to go for a man's nuts if he's in a female space and won't leave after repeated attempts to make him.

If you think we need to sanction that, what do you think we need to do with the tsunami of highly graphic death and rape threats TRAs make towards GC women?

ETA: It was also a joke. "Kick him in the balls" was the punchline. The joke worked on anticlimax and the absurdity of a person with balls being in the ladies' room in the first place.

ALL police in the airports are armed. He was arrested by the airport police. Thus they were armed. Simples.

He told people to punch others. Being one of the "we just know" brigade (he doesn't, he lies) this is extra dangerous and encouraging violence for something that is not against the law.

Encouraging violence has NEVER been part of free speech, and never will. This is the correct way. Imagine being one of the people who receive death threats and threats of rape etc etc every day.

As I have spoken about before. Mr Linehan decided to "out" one of my friends as trans. My friend is not trans, but GL decided she was. She closed her social media down because of the hideous threats she received. Threats sent to her employer. Her children (including daughters) bullied in school for having a trans parent (again, not trans). Yes, other high profile anti trans activists jumped on his bandwagon, but he started it. And has still never apologised. He deleted the worst of the tweets, but not all.

He is no hero. He is no saviour of women. He does not care who he hurts in the crossfire.

<Wonders if the Queen will get sanctioned for violent sexual assault>

Its not an echo chamber

you are on here, and allowed on here

chris is posting on here, the lecture poster whose name escapes me is on here

lots of posters don’t agree on everything…or anything 🤔

Anyone would think from Rowley's statement that he had nothing to do with this. It is someone working for him, after all, who decided to arrest Linehan at the airport and who decided that five officers would be the appropriate number to detain him.

He also behaves as if the police have no choice but to investigate. But the police choose not to investigate all the time. They don't investigate shoplifting, they don't investigate street theft of mobile phones or handbags, they don't come out to burglaries.

If they had to do something, they could have just invited him along to the station and given him a caution. Job done.

And remember the quote "men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them"

If a man breaks the law and commits voyeurism or exhibitionism and transgresses women's boundaries, that's abuse. Women who are intimidated by men invading their spaces where they are vulnerable, in a state of undress, etc, are entitled to consider how they might wish to defend themselves.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's the best advice, because a man who is deliberately transgressing women's boundaries is a risk, and women are at a disadvantage because men are stronger, so I'd suggest attempting to leave quietly and quickly is more effective/safer.

But that's because Glinner was making a joke, not giving actual self defense advice.

You could apply the same argument to a lone adult male who refused to stop hanging around in kids’ playgrounds or outside the local primary school. Would people similarly object to ‘if he repeatedly refuses to go, and the police won’t do anything, take it into your own hands”? Unlikely.

But GL wasn't inside the context of a female space. He was was inside the context of a tweet..