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Comedy writer Graham Linehan is believed to have permanently left Britain for Arizona following his arrest by armed officers at Heathrow Airport over social media posts concerning transgender issues. The Father Ted creator was detained by five armed police on September 1 when returning to face trial for allegedly harassing a transgender woman. His arrest was related to three tweets posted whilst in America. The 57-year-old Irish-born writer, who spent three decades in the UK, has established residence in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to the Daily Mail, and previously told podcaster Joe Rogan he secured a three-year visa, believed to be...

Graham Linehan is the creator of Father Ted, a truly beloved sitcom from the UK's Channel Four. But, because he is opposed to the notion that women have penises, he was forced out of TV comedy (as ruthlessly homogeneous a world as can be found) and then out of Britain itself. He returned from exile this morning only for the purposes of attending his trial, starting at Westminster Magistrates' Court this Thursday, following his previous arrest by Big Tranny's ideological enforcers at Scotland Yard. So naturally, on landing at Heathrow this morning, he was immediately arrested all over again by...

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."