Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow Part 4

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These threads have mostly been used to follow the case that has taken place at Westminster Magistrate's Court over the 4th and 5th September, (and will continue on the 29th October), but were created to follow the fallout of Graham's arrest at Heathrow on his return to the UK for this court case last week, and what is allegedly a conspiracy of TRAs to intimidate and harass a number of people, including Graham, with the alleged support of various police services.

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
Part 3 here
Graham's account of the arrest here
You can support his Substack here
Or buy him a coffee 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. At the time of posting it has reached 64% of its stretch target.
The FSU have managed to get the bail condition that @Glinner must not post on X removed, so he is now freely posting on there again.

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 again on 29th October.
You can support Nick here (posted 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:"
https://store29806256.company.site

😆

I used it to give a tip. No issues so far. He does say that he knows it's an unusual payment platform but he's been using it for years.

Thank you @ThatCyanCat .

I also said that transgenderism represented an existential threat to democratic process and ability to speak the truth to power. And it wasn't just about women's rights or trans rights but something more profound that Brexit also represented in terms of telling the truth and accountability.

This is so important. It's not just about the harm to women's rights, though that has been profound, it's the willingness and complicity of our institutions to engage in the destabilisation of all the things that Western society supposedly cherishes: reality, objectivity and truth. It's saying to people: you must pretend that what you know to be true isn't true; you must lie or face ostracisation. The idea of arriving at the truth via the scientific method, the commitment of journalists to factual reporting, the honour code that says doctors must do no harm: all those things have been, not just ignored, but deliberately subverted and turned upside down.

The whole gender movement has been an assault on all the values that are supposed to be fundamental to our society, and I will never get over the rage and disappointment I feel that the people who are supposed to uphold those values rolled over so easily.

Thanks for the new thread.

That's why JKR has been so smart in how she's incorporated the issues into the Strike books. She hasn't lifted them straight from life, but she created other comparable situations based on other premises, but sharing some concepts, such as the body being totally immaterial, having to accept things that simply are not true or the eternal assumption that women will always be accommodating of what others want of them.

JKR never fails.

Someone is going to be fuming.

I don’t like rainbows , unicorns or mermaids any more. My Dgc love all such things, and their parents often lecture me on my lack of kindness towards poor marginalised transpeople, whom I have never denigrated in any way and towards who I feel no hate. So I smile at every birthday cake, balloon and sodding book featuring said items. I hid the Robert Galbraith when the family visited at the weekend, but I’m the intolerant one apparently.

She touches on it repeatedly in Harry Potter too.

She's not saying anything thats not already been in public circles for some time.

And she has a public interest defence to saying it and highlighting at this point for a specific reason which she's clearly laid out.

If Stephanie wants to go down the legal route against JKR, then he might as well put on a record by Barbara.

Oops.

SabrinaThwaite · Today 13:24

JKR never fails.
Someone is going to be fuming.

Ah ha hah hah hah! I bet that's got his bloomers in a right bundle!

If it's true, what case could he have?

Edited because I messed up.

And Thomas has restricted who can see his posts (which tried to argue that concerns about safeguarding were homophobic)...

Stephanie is impotent against JKR, and knows it.

Harassment of some kind no doubt. Everything is hate or harassment or phobic.

The greater point is there is probably little strategic value in him trying to take on JKR in court at this stage.

Holy shit, Thomas has locked down his account now. Has he ever done that before?

This is going to be interesting. I can't see it resulting in anything but pure sunlight unless Hayden backs off. And that seems unlikely.

People say Glinner has no filter. Maybe Dougal is his Spirit Animal.

' Henry's hair...it's a bit mad isn't it?'

Just blurting out what we all know. I've noticed that children love Dougal most out of all the characters. Perhaps because he knows something children know , namely that grown ups don't know everything and are often very silly. But then again his fate was to be banished to a remote island.....

@Glinner honestly, I’d keep my head down when it comes to the SB orbiters just at the moment.

I'm curious because we've reached a point of direct conflict where SB and his little crew don't have much room to move.

They either have to back down completely in order to avoid scrunity or we'll see them make stupid moves enraged by the fact that they are very much in a spotlight now.

If they make stupid moves its not going to take that long before they make a mistake.

The idea that they can persist totally untroubled in the way they were before, seems somewhat unlikely.

The egos involved makes me think they'll double down to try and create a victimised narrative, a bit like an imploding cult which goes into siege mood.

I think they've been neutralised to a point, but that still doesn't mean they don't present a risk in someway.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next, especially given a change of Home Sec, the ECHR advice and KJK complaint to the police.

How can a disgraced, sacked former policeman have more influence than a former Police Superintendent? What does this man have on current serving police officers to make them do his bidding? Who does he have information on?

This is so sinister…

Another day when I am astonished that people who live on the internet seem to have no idea that things they've previously said and done, and which were published or broadcast on the internet, are available on the internet for everyone to see.

And also I very much miss my last job which had Cheesecake Tuesday and every week they would have a selection of different cheesecakes, like twix or mars bar or raspberry ripple or mango once, memorably, chocolate orange truffle.

I can't seem to cut and paste from Nitter, but at the end of the first day Sep 4, Nick Wallis posted the link to to an online payment portal and says that he has been using it for years and it's safe and secure.
Praps someone on Twix can find it and copy it? I don't want to attempt typing it out as I have post migraine brain scramble and don't trust myself

I’ve obviously missed it, but who is “Thomas”?

The cheesecake story is absolutely fascinating.
People are so fed up with not being able to say what they think about LGBT (mainly T) activism without being accused of homophobia or bigotry that when the opportunity comes to safely express their views through the medium of cheesecake they seize it. There’s plausible deniability- oh yes that rainbow one did look delicious but I just can’t resist chocolate!

And yet you could imagine a culture where the repression is even greater and nobody would dare to not choose the rainbow cheesecake, like when the applause for Communist leaders’ speeches went on for an hour because nobody wanted to be seen to be the first person to stop clapping.