The arrest of Graham Linehan should be a turning point

When a comedy writer is seized by armed police over tweets, Britain’s free speech crisis can no longer be ignored.

How many more controversies will it take? The arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan by five armed police officers as he landed at Heathrow Airport has become an international news story because it so self-evidently tyrannical. The stress of the ordeal raised his blood pressure to an alarming degree and he was rushed to hospital. With the help of the Fr…