If it had been a sketch in one of his many comedy shows, it would surely have been rejected as too absurd.

After landing at Heathrow on a flight from Arizona, Graham Linehan, the Irish comic who created Father Ted , was arrested by five armed police officers for tweets that he had posted five months ago. The 57-year-old was told he was being held on suspicion of a public order offence. He was taken to a police station and questioned for several hours, before being released on police bail.

The Commissioner is correct to say that police should not be ‘policing toxic culture wars’. We need them to focus on real crimes such as shoplifting, mobile phone theft, and violence against women and girls

Linehan’s arrest followed a post published on X in which he said that women who encounte

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