The co-maker of the British sitcom “Father Ted” was arrested on Monday at London Heathrow Airport, reportedly to various social media posts that criticize transgender activists.
Graham Linehan told about the test substituteSaying there were signs of something strange happened before he landed in London.
According to the former comic writer, a gate agent in the US said that he had no place on his flight back home and had to get a new ticket – something he didn’t think much about at the time. Since the arrest, however, Linehan wrote to substitations that he believes that he was marked because “someone somewhere, probably not convincing makeup was wearing”.
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“Father Ted” co-maker Graham Linehan speaks to the media outside of Westminster Magistrates’ Court, London, where he has argued not guilty of harassing a transgender woman and damaged a telephone on 12 May 2025. (Lucy North/PA images via Getty images)
When he got out of the plane in Heathrow, Linehan was met by five armed officers who told him that he was being arrested about three posts on X.
“In a country where pedophiles escape from the conviction, where Mesmermaad gets out of hand, where women are attacked and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comic writer for this tweet (and no, I don’t make this, I don’t make this), Linehan wrote.
In one of the posts, Linehan wrote that “if a trans-geidified man is in a alone-feminine room, he commits a violent, offensive act.” He then said that that will encounter such a scenario, make a scene, call the police or even “hit” the perpetrator.
He said that officers interrupted him about the post and he explained that it was a serious point that was expressed with humor.
A demonstrator contains a trans -proud flag during the demonstration in Piccadilly Circus. Thousands of people marched through Central London during Trans Pride 2023. (Vuk Valcic/Sopa images/lighttrocket via getty images)
Linehan said that the only restriction on his bail was that he was banned to use X.
“I looked at the single bail condition: I don’t have to go on Twitter. That is it. No threats, no speeches about the seriousness of my crimes – only a legal gag order that is designed to remain silent while I am in the UK, and a requirement that I have in a further interview in October,” he wrote.
The former comic writer added that the test confirmed to him that “the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of expression, hostile to women, and far too far too far too far too far for the demand of violent, entitled, insulting men who have changed the police into their personal goon team.”
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“Harry Potter” Maker JK RowlingWho has also been a pronounced critic of transactivism, hit the arrest and wrote: “What did the F — become the UK? This is Totalitarianism. Totally regrettable.”
Reform UK Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe said, “Linehan today, tomorrow. Make your objections now known.”
“Great -Britain is now a total laugh – a country where we arrest the authors of light comedies and interrogate them about their tweets. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious”, “, Neil O’Brien wrote on x after the arrest.
In addition, conservative activist Robby Starbuck Slam closed the UK and said that the country has “no free speech” and that “the feelings of transgender people [and] Migrants come before the rights of all others. “
JK Rowling talks about transgender people who invade the spaces of women. (Getty Images)
Freedom of expressionAn organization that focuses on the defense of freedom of expression, also condemned to support the arrest and promised Linehan.
“We do not believe that the arrest of Graham or the deputy conditions imposed were legal. We will fully support him in his fight against these ridiculous allegations and the disproportionate reaction of the police,” the organization wrote to X.
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