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https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/03/starmers-regime-just-lit-the-fuse-on-the-u-k-s-free-speech-crisis/

 

Starmer’s Regime Just Lit The Fuse On The U.K.’s Free Speech Crisis

 

Popular Irish sitcom writer Graham Linehan was arrested in London Monday after expressing anti-transgender opinions on X.

 

Robin Wright, longtime member of the Hollywood glitterati, tells The Times that she feels “liberated” in fleeing the United States for the “freedom” of England.

 

“America is a s—show,” the leftist House of Cards star told the London publication, declining to fully go into what she believes to be the present state of American politics.

 

Wright, who says she’s found Mr. Right after three failed marriages, including her ill-fated union with “Marxist moron” Sean Penn, loves the “freedom of self” she has found in the United Kingdom.

 

The Times’ gushing profile was published on Saturday, just two days before five Metropolitan Police officers arrested Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan at London’s Heathrow Airport on charges of expressing an opinion.

 

Linehan, co-creator of the popular sitcom Father Ted, was returning from the U.S. to the land of “freedom of self” when the speech police grabbed him “on suspicion of inciting violence via his posts on X.” What violence did he incite? The violence of thought, which in no small part has effectively become outlawed in leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Jolly Old England.

‘Arrested for Jokes’

 

“They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets,” Linehan wrote Tuesday on his Substack account. He included a photo of himself from the hospital where he was transported after his blood pressure reportedly spiked during the ordeal. “The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life!”

 

“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 (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up,” Linehan added.

 

That doesn’t sound like spoiled American Robin Wright’s idealized version of a nation where the people are really “living.” You can live freely in the United Kingdom these days — if you say and think the right things.

 

Linehan, an outspoken opponent of the rabid trans agenda, just happened to post the “wrong” things — more than four months ago — in contravention of the U.K.’s speech codes. He included in his Substack post screenshots of the three tweets that turned him into a suspected criminal.

 

“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,” the award-winning sitcom writer opined in April on his X account.

 

He also joked about a protest by transgender activists, describing the aerial shot as “a photo you can smell.” Linehan followed up that post with his thoughts on the activists. “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F – – – em”, he wrote.

 

For his thoughts, Linehan reported that he was escorted into the Heathrow police station, where his bag, belt, and devices were taken and he was placed in a “small green-tiled cell with a bunk, a silver toilet in the corner and a message from Crimestoppers on the ceiling next to a concave mirror that was presumably there to make you reflect on your life choices.”

 

Questioned about his social media posts, Linehan told his interrogator that men pretending to be women that enter into women’s bathrooms and other private spaces are “abusers and they need to be challenged every time.”

 

The police officer asked him about “trans people.” Linehan asked him what he meant. The officer responded, “People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.”

 

“I said ‘Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.’ [The officer] called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend,” Linehan wrote, referring to the strident trans-activist group.

 

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