Is the Met on an inadvertent campaign to make Nigel Farage the Prime Minister? Politically he is the only winner from the arrest of the comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow Airport on Monday, for a series of posts made on the social media platform X earlier this year.

A senior police officer with a functioning brain cell should have reviewed the investigation and ended the fiasco

The circumstances behind the arrest, by armed officers, are so bizarre that they almost beggar explanation. As a former Detective Chief Inspector in the Metropolitan Police I have a fairly good sense about what happened in this case – and how it could have been avoided.

The three offending posts were made on the 19 th and 20 th April 2025. In one of the posts, Linehan wrote: “If a trans-identified m

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