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Graham Linehan has demanded that the police stop acting as a “goon squad” for trans activists. The Father Ted co-creator, 57, claimed police were being used as “useful idiots” after accusing them of failing to “properly and fairly investigate” allegations made against him by trans activist Sophia Brooks. Mr Linehan was cleared of harassing Ms Brooks on social media but convicted of criminal damage after snatching the complainant’s mobile phone and throwing it to the ground outside the Battle of Ideas conference on Oct 19, 2024. The Irish comedy writer has now had his criminal damage conviction overturned after Mrs...

rish comedy writer Graham Linehan has been permanently banned from Twitter after he tweeted "men aren't women tho" in response to a tweet by a women's group wishing men who identify as women a happy Pride Month. Lineman, who had hundreds of thousands of followers on the social network, is the creator or co-creator of the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books, and The IT Crowd. Twitter said Linehan "has been permanently suspended after repeated violations of our rules against hateful conduct and platform manipulation."