{"id":163613,"date":"2025-09-03T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/the-it-crowd-creator-graham-linehans-arrest-over-transgender-posts-sparks-free-speech-row-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:49:03","slug":"the-it-crowd-creator-graham-linehans-arrest-over-transgender-posts-sparks-free-speech-row-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/the-it-crowd-creator-graham-linehans-arrest-over-transgender-posts-sparks-free-speech-row-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The IT Crowd\u2019 creator Graham Linehan&#8217;s arrest over transgender posts sparks free speech row in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish comedy writer and creator of celebrated shows like The IT Crowd and Father Ted was arrested this week at Heathrow Airport over a series of anti-trans posts. The arrest has sparked fury and free speech outcry in the UK, with Elon Musk describing Britain as a &#8220;police state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/09\/03\/the-it-crowd-creator-graham-linehans-arrest-over-transgender-posts-sparks-free-speech-row-\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish comedy writer and creator of celebrated shows like The IT Crowd and Father Ted was arrested this week at Heathrow Airport over a series of anti-trans posts. The arrest has sparked fury and free speech outcry in the UK, with Elon Musk describing Britain as a &#8220;police state&#8221;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":163614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}