Amid growing unrest in the United Kingdom over immigration policies and disconcerting incidents of Brits arrested for publicly – and silently – praying, word comes that a popular comedian has been arrested because of a series of “anti-trans” X posts.
Graham Linehan, creator of the comedy TV show “Father Ted,” was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport, the Daily Mail reports.
The Irish comedy writer, who was traveling on an American Airlines flight from Arizona to London Monday, says he was treated like a terrorist after being detained as soon as he stepped off the plane.
Linehan says he was then escorted to a private are and informed he was under arrest “for three tweets.”
Police confirmed that a 57-year-old was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence at “in relation to posts on X,” the British news site reported.
After his arrest, Linehan says he required medical assistance “because the stress nearly killed me.”
One of the posts, from April 20, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
Linehan decried the arrest, saying: “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet.
“I promise you, I am not making this up.”
He said he was “arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online.”
“To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the U.K. has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad,” Linehan added.
Comedian Graham Linehan was arrested by armed police as he stepped off a plane at Heathrow.
And his great “crime”? Posting three tweets mocking transgender ideology, while real criminals walk free every day.
This is the state of Keir Starmer’s Britain. Utterly shameful. pic.twitter.com/xRbrogVZuG
— Nicholas Lissack (@NicholasLissack) September 2, 2025
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