Piers Morgan
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And he did some jokes on X back in April, and they were just harmless.
He talked about a trans woman coming into a woman's space.
Of course, which again is ridiculous.
So he did a joke about a trans woman coming into a woman's space and said, what is your kick him in the balls, right?
It was a joke.
It was an ear of a knuckle joke.
If you're oversensitive, you go, ooh, most people just laughed and took it for what it was.
It's that kind of joke that wouldn't even be considered remotely controversial 10 years ago.
When he arrived at Heathrow Airport several months later, he was arrested by five armed police officers and taken off to the cells.
And I just found that utterly shocking.
So I'm not pretending there's not been a massive problem about free speech.
But what was interesting and encouraging was the public backlash.
Hence my book title, Woke is Dead.
The public backlash was so ferocious that within a week, the police said, we're not going to prosecute Linehan.
And actually, they said further, we're never going to prosecute anyone
for this kind of thing again.
This kind of thing.
That was a moment when I went, we're finally getting a bit of sanity back.
Well, I don't know that story.
If it's exactly- Daily Mail, baby.