Piers Morgan
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The father, Ted Genius, right?
And he decided to take on this whole trans issue head on.
And a bit like JK Rowling, he got shamed, vilified, cancelled.
He lost everything.
He lost his family.
He lost his jobs.
He lost everything.
He became unemployable.
Completely cancelled.
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.