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Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Biscuitt@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/09/graham-linehan-25000-compensation-apology-metropolitan-police-arrest

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  • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ~~“Gender critical” “Father Ted creator” ~~ Transphobic lunatic Graham Linehan

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  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The third, on 20 April, 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 insisted at the time that while he may have been guilty of making a “bad joke”, he had not been aiming to encourage violence.

    Great, now people on TERF island are getting paid to tell people to physically assault transgender people.

    The judge found that the writer had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up” and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground.

    The conviction for damaging their mobile phone was also overturned on appeal.

    And get to damage their property without repercussions.

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  • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If a transphobe is in a space, they are committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch them in the face.

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    • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      *balls.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait. In what world is literally telling your followers to physically attack trans people not inciting violence?? What the actual fuck is wrong with everyone involved in this story?

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    • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just Met Police things ¯\(ツ)/¯

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police#Controv…

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Institutional_racism_in_the_Me…

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Institutional_sexism_in_the_Me…

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now they can put this saga behind them and get back to arresting 80 year old wheelchair bound “terrorists”

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    • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      New PM is on the way, it’s time to break the age gap

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is bad, actually. “The met no longer investiges non-crime hate incidents”

    Or is it not? I find it hard to tell.

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  • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    getting paid to sexually harass teenagers??? joke country

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not what I would have given him.

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  • Swaus01@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t know the police could apologise to you 💀

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