Graham Lineham being arrested when getting off a flight for being mean to some trans activist types on Twitter is all over the British media, apparently. While it's clear that he has become unhealthily obsessed with the issue (and has drifted into believing Right wing nonsense on other issues as part and parcel of being on that side of a culture war), the controversy over the arrest is well deserved.
As I posted back in 2023, it's been clear for many, many years that Britain has an almost uniquely stupid way of involving police and arrest in matters of alleged "hate crime" when they should, at most, be left to civil actions or tribunals, like in nearly all other countries. It's hard to believe that police think this is good use of their time; yet you never seem to read of any internal unhappiness with their role, which is a tad surprising. (It's hard to believe that courts don't think they have better things to worry about, too.)
If this arrest finally gets the government to actually change laws and processes into something less patently heavy handed and authoritarian-light, it may be worthwhile.
Not holding my breath, though; as I don't understand how it been left the way it is for so long already...
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