PU 1: The Arrest of Graham Linehan
IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan was arrested in the UK on charges of inciting violence – a look at his run-ins with British law and transgender activism and the free speech implications of his arrest
Graham Linehan in hospital after his arrest (The Glinner Update)
PUNCHING UPWARDS is a show about the truth, if you will. In a Terry Pratchett sort of way. About what is really going on behind the headlines. The things legacy media is too lazy, or unwilling, to cover. This means the things you will hear here are messier and more nuanced than what you’re used to.
I implore you to forget the pre-formed notions of good-and-bad or us-versus-them that might have been impressed upon you by the journalistic zeitgeist. This is a show for those of us who like to think for ourselves and who do their own research. Dangerous, I know!
Above all, the show aims to bring back a quality to journalism that has been missing now, for a long time: to speak truth to power, to stick up for the little guy. To punch upwards, not downwards, like so many of my colleagues seem to be doing these days.
In this initial episode of the show, I want to analyse what happened to comedy writer Graham Linehan when he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London recently.
Sources:
- Sky News – Graham Linehan arrest: Met Police chief says officers “in impossible position”
- Resistance Radio – Guest: Graham Linehan
- The Joe Rogan Experience 2361
- The Glinner Update — I just got arrested again
- The Case of David Paisley vs. Graham Linehan
- The BBC — Graham Linehan “relentlessly” harassed trans activist, court told
- Public Order Act 1986
- The BBC — Online speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The theme music for the podcast is a track called Fight or Fall by Def Lev. Find out more about the show at fab.industries/podcast — new media, new rules!