Well, if they’re arresting comedians, at least Nish Kumar is safe. Graham Linehan, not so much. The British like to sniff that Americans don’t get irony. Arresting a comedian fresh off the plane from the US after months of dismissing US concerns about freedom of speech is one way to teach them. Not only was Linehan detained by the police for tweets attacking an establishment-approved ideology, he was subsequently bailed on the condition that he not post any further tweets. Britain is never beating the allegations.

I’m a Glinner (his X handle) sceptic. I began writing in opposition to gender identity ideology in 2019, and have the scars to show for it, but while my philosophical opposition is absolute my handwringing softboy liberalism makes me queasy about Linehan’s full-throated appr

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