Commentary
On September 1st, as he landed at Heathrow Airport, Graham Linehan was arrested by not one, not two, but five armed police officers, under suspicion of “inciting violence.” What was the crime that the famed comedy writer, creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, had committed? It must have been especially egregious for five police officers to intercept him at Britain’s busiest airport. Perhaps it was smuggling drugs. Or maybe membership of a cell organizing a terror attack.
