The BBC simply lies in this bit of chat about Glinner.

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has told BBC News he stands by his posts on X which led to his arrest last week, over his views on challenging “a trans-identified male” in “a female-only space”.

Scare quotes scare quotes. The BBC doesn’t put scare quotes on female pronouns for men who pretend to be women but it does put them on truthful labels.

Recalling his flight, which landed in the UK on 1 September, he said he “realised something was up” when no one on the plane was allowed to stand up.

“I didn’t expect it to be what it turned out to be. And then they called my name out and I think I immediately knew what was going to happen,” he said.

Jeezus, I didn’t know about the everyone remain seated bit. That’s disgusting. You’d think he was a serial killer. FIVE COPS, and all passengers required to remain seated after a long tedious flight, because a man publicly disagrees that men can be women. WHY? Have the police even explained yet why they found it necessary to send five cops for such a trivial abstract non-violent matter?

When asked if the tone he took in his posts could be described as “vicious and personal to trans people” and if he had tried to “lower the temperature a bit” in what he writes, he said: “I’ve tried several times, but you always get met by a slap in the face.”

Oh shut up, Beeb. Have you ever asked a “trans woman” about vicious personal things he said to women? Ever ever ever even once?

The first post, from his X feed, 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.”

It was put to him that what he wrote was insulting and violent, and he agreed, but said: “Women have a right to defend themselves from strange men in their spaces.”

Oh shut up, Beeb. Men invading women’s spaces is insulting and violent. Go talk to them for a change.

On 3 September the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, defended the officers involved, but said he recognised “concern caused by such incidents given differing perspectives on the balance between free speech and the risks of inciting violence in the real world”.

Give me a break. How often do planeloads of people have to stay in their seats after a transatlantic flight while five cops arrest a man for inciting violence against women in the real world? Is the number more than zero? I put it to you that that has never ever happened.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski called the posts “totally unacceptable”, saying the arrest seemed “proportionate”, while Shami Chakrabarti, a Labour peer and ex-director of Liberty, a civil liberties group, said “the public order statute book and speech offences in particular do need an overarching review”.

“But inciting violence must always be a criminal offence,” she added.

God what a pack of shits.