Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow Part 3

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These threads are currently being used to follow the case that is taking place at Westminster Magistrate's Court over the 4th and 5th September, but will also be following the subsequent fallout of Graham's arrest at Heathrow on his return to the UK for this court case earlier this week.

He is currently on trial for alleged harassment of a trans identified male and criminal damage to the man's phone. The charges stem from a series of events in October 2024 at Battle of Ideas.

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Graham's account of the arrest here

You can support his Substack here

Free Speech Union are running a fundraiser to support a claim against the Met in reference to the Heathrow arrest. Just search FSU and Graham Linehan fundraiser and it should be easy to find. Currently reached 93% of its target.

Most of the mainstream media have reported on the case, but none have covered it as well as Nick Wallis. Follow him on X for live posting from the court.
You can support Nick here (posted this morning Friday 5th September):

"I am deeply grateful to everyone who has seen fit to bung me the cost of a coffee, a pint or even a bloody London pint since I found out I was able to come back today. If you think you can afford to make a small donation, there’s more info here:"

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Graham Linehan is an outspoken and dedicated man who is an (sometimes controversial) ally to the gender critical feminist cause. He is not our “leader” any more than “Sarah-Jane” Baker is yours, @Christinapple

It appears that legal processes are being abused in a hypocritical and biased way to target prominent GC commentators while ignoring the harassment and abuse from trans rights activist ones.

He’s also written some legendary comedy, obvs.

Reading this thread just thinking what a great Strike novel this would all make. What a cast of truly appalling creepy characters. I think it might be too unbelievable though for a work of fiction.

Someone mentioned Kiwi Farms...finally someone has said 'Do we have additional information on this 'Sophia Brooks'...

Oh dear.

I saw that too.

It’ll just take one of the Farmers to have their curiosity piqued …

ETA: someone has suggested a stand-alone Tarquin thread.

I LOVE how cleverly JKR explores the themes this insanity has thrown up, using the Strike novels, without simply lifting the events straight from life and replicating them. Not only does it show how universal they are, it gives her detractors ample opportunity to make total tits of themselves. Like one the other day who did the "Troubled Blood is transphobic" thing, thus revealing that he hasn't read it, or he'd know that there's no trans character in it and no mention of transgenderism, just a cracking story with great characters that deals with themes like the changing (and yet non-changing) role of women in society, feminism, classism, family, relationships, death, the past and more. However, by assuming that the cross dressing killer, who never claims to be a woman, uses male pronouns and has zero issue being incarcerated in a men's prison and regarded as a man, is a transwoman, he revealed that he knows transwomen are men.

You just know what JKR was thinking during The Running Grave when one of the cultists spits at Robin, absolutely certain that her fictional prophet will rightly punish her, and Robin finally realises that it's pointless trying to reason with them. They're mad. They're all fucking mad.

This insistence that we have 'leaders' is very male. Men tend to organise themselves on those lines, women don't. It's true that we have some people (nearly all women, of course) who are more in the limelight than others but that doesn't make them 'leaders'.

@ThatCyanCat Running Grave was such a clear allegory for the trans rights activists. There were so many moments where you can see the reality of what women and supporters of women’s rights are dealing with trying to tackle the onslaught writ large against the cult she built in the book.

The demeaning of women, the authoritarian leadership, the control of freedoms. So much more as well.

Thanks for clarifying. I did think MN wouldnt forget about that if it happened.

the “MN poster” who posted it was a TRA - they also clearly had a fixation on GL in particular as their history was posting goady threads about him.

Gosh that sounds like some sort of behaviour that would totally be against the rules that they like to enforce.

It’s unsurprising that an “is it true” thread on Feminist Chat was taken down yesterday.

Someone set up an @ GIinner account on TwiX, using his avatar and a capital i (as I have done) instead of an l.

@ Glinner with an l
@ GIinner with a capital i.

That's devious shitty, but I can see why some people fell for it.

I saw that she's wisely keeping mum for now. I didn't even know he was in the gallery until someone told me. Wish I'd grabbed a seat behind him!

Edited to add: Sarah told me she wasn't there for the afternoon session, when the thing I mentioned happened. I wasn't there in the morning.

Oh do bore off you asinine man child 🙄

I mean is there the bottom of any barrel you don't scrape??

funny how you never show up on threads about the terrible treatment of rape victims in this country, the appalling rape conviction rate or the fact that the TW CEO on a rape charity told female victims to reframe their trauma. Never there shouting about how awful it is are you??

as always we see you so clearly you may as well stand under a spotlight

And domestic abusers. So many stories of this in the relationships board. Abusive men goading their partners to record an "unreasonable" response as evidence that the woman rather than the man is the abuser.

As I've said many times, MN creates Feminists not because of the Feminism boards but because on every board where people go for help and advice we can see the god awful real world stories of financial, emoional, physical and sexual abuse of women by men playing the same patterns over and over again.

Graham's I'm back! tweet has got 37k likes now😁

You'll notice he also took the man for our leader, and not any of the women.

Be fair: some of them assert, with equal inaccuracy, that JKR is our "leader".

Just asking out of curiosity, because I honestly don't know, was Father Ted popular in the States? I'm thinking it possibly wasn't, perhaps it baffled them? I'm also not aware if they tried to remake it. Which seems to be the fate of popular British sitcoms, with varying degrees of success.

There's a nice bit near the beginning of the latest one (The Hallmarked Man) where she talks about how all the celebrities who supported the cult are now desperately trying to cover up and pretend that they had never supported them in the first place.

Where does she come up with these crazy far-fetched ideas?

I think it was TB when one character is described as a "radical feminist witch". Pissed myself laughing.

Not as far as I know. Though there is a subset of American/ Canadian ppl who know it from seeing it on Transatlantic flights. That might be about to change though. After all for years the only Americans who knew about Monty Python were students who saw it on PBS.