The Irish comedy author Graham Linehan, finest identified for creating Father Ted and The IT Crowd, was arrested at Heathrow Airport over social media posts criticizing transgender ideology.
Linehan was met by five armed officers on arrival in London and detained in reference to three posts made on Elon Musk’s X platform.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest was carried out by its Aviation Unit, whose officers routinely carry firearms at airports. A spokeswoman stated the weapons weren’t drawn or used at any stage.
The posts below investigation included one during which Linehan wrote that males getting into female-only areas have been committing abusive acts and needs to be challenged, with police known as if mandatory.
In one other submit, he stated: “Make a scene, name the cops, and if all else fails, punch him within the balls.”
A 3rd acknowledged: “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** ’em.”
Linehan stated he was taken into custody, locked in a cell, and later taken to the hospital due to stress. He added that the situation for his launch was that he cease posting on X.
“I used to be arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a felony, taken to hospital as a result of the stress practically killed me, and banned from talking on-line — all as a result of I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers,” he wrote on his Substack.
Britain is now a complete laughing inventory – a rustic the place we arrest the authors of sunshine comedies and interrogate them about their tweets. It could be laughable it it wasn’t so severe.
– Graham Linehan on his arrest in the present day pic.twitter.com/JaCKKtz271— Neil O’Brien (@NeilDotObrien) September 2, 2025
He additionally mocked the sheer scale of the police operation.
“In a rustic the place paedophiles escape sentencing, the place knife crime is uncontrolled, the place girls are assaulted and harassed each time they collect to talk, the state had mobilised 5 armed officers to arrest a comedy author for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I’m not making this up).”
Linehan, who lately appeared on The Joe Rogan Expertise, has change into one of the vital outspoken critics of transgender ideology in Britain and Eire.
The arrest was broadly condemned throughout social media by the likes of J.Ok. Rowling, Elon Musk and distinguished politicians.
What the fuck has the UK change into? That is totalitarianism. Totally deplorable. https://t.co/CRl2n9rorh
— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 2, 2025
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2025
Bev Turner on free speech and the arrest of Graham Linehan:
‘Elon Musk says we’re residing in a police state. JD Vance is frightened concerning the UK. I’ll be elevating this on the White Home, it’s clear free speech is one concern the place Britain and America are worlds aside.’ pic.twitter.com/CwSoOpgUP1
— GB Information (@GBNEWS) September 2, 2025
