Comedian arrested for tweets

The Guardian reports:

The writer of TV’s Father Ted has been arrested at Heathrow over three social media posts on transgender issues.

Graham Linehan, who also created the IT Crowd and, with Dylan Moran, Black Books, said he was intercepted by five armed officers after flying in from Arizona and told he was under arrest over the messages.

Writing on Substack, the 57-year-old Irishman said he was taken to a cell and then questioned over the posts, published on X in April.

He said the posts related to him challenging a “trans-identified male” in a “female-only space”.

More insanity from the UK. As I understand it Lineham tweeted something along the lines of if a trans-woman is in a women’s toilets you should kick them in the balls. It’s clearly not an actual incitement to violence. You can disagree with what he said, but not think he should be arrested for it.

You can read his tweets and his arrest direct from Lineham here.