Graham Linehan attacks cancel culture at Conservative conference fringe event
Graham Linehan attacks cancel culture at Conservative conference fringe event
The comedy writer tells a free speech debate his views on gender have made it hard to find places to speak.
I didn't know he was a Tory ๐.
being cancelled by getting an entire write up in the bbc
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Comedy writer Graham Linehan has told a free speech event at the Conservative Party conference he was "the most cancelled person in this room".
The panel argued that free speech in the UK was being shut down by groups of people who were out of touch with the general public's views and increasingly intolerant of opinions they did not share.
Mr Linehan claimed there had been a "soft ideological coup of nearly all our major institutions - the police, academia and even the NHS" and it needed to be stopped.
Mr Linehan was speaking at a fringe meeting - an individual event that takes place around the main party conference.
The writer has been involved in a number of acrimonious social media disputes with trans activists, and in 2020 was permanently suspended from Twitter which claimed he had breached rules on "hateful content".
An episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 has been criticised over its transgender plot line.In 2020 Channel 4 removed it from its streaming service saying that "in light of current audience expectations, we concluded it did not meet our standards for remaining available... and it was not possible to make adequate changes".
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