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UK Totalitarianism Update – HotAir

September 2, 2025
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I don’t know what form the British civil war will take–with any luck, the violence will be sporadic and minimal, and the resistance to the totalitarianism in the UK will result in early elections that sweep in a government willing to choose British citizens over migrants–but it has already started. 





I fear that no election will result in the kinds of reforms necessary to alleviate tensions. 

Whatever the future case, the current one is bleak. The totalitarianism that the government is engaged in to suppress dissent is appalling. 

A case in point:

Earlier today, a popular British comedian was arrested on touchdown for the crime of posting three “gender critical” tweets, gender critical being the term of art for dissent from the alphabet mob. Beege wrote about the insanity earlier today. 

Five armed police–in the UK, armed police are reserved for dangerous criminals–arrested Greg Linehan after landing. He was returning from America, from which he posted his rather anodyne comments. 

The scene was ridiculous. 

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to his posts on X.

He was arrested after arriving on a flight from the US, and said in an online Substack article that officials then became concerned for his health after taking his blood pressure, and took him to hospital.

The Metropolitan Police said that a man in his 50s was arrested on 1 September at Heathrow Airport and taken to hospital, adding his condition “is neither life-threatening nor life-changing” , and he was bailed “pending further investigation”.

Linehan said in an online article on Substack that his bail condition stipulates he is “not to go on Twitter” and that his arrest related to three posts on X from April, on his views about challenging “a trans-identified male” in “a female-only space”.

The Irish comedy writer, who also created The IT Crowd and Black Books, said when he stepped off the aircraft, “five armed officers were waiting” to tell him he was under arrest.





Linehan suffers from high blood pressure, and unsurprisingly, it spiked during the encounter. He wound up in the hospital. He was released on bail–the condition of which is that he not post on X. 

This is, of course, an intimidation tactic, meant to shut others up as much as Linehan. 

The British police had flagged Linehan for arrest before he left the United States, and apparently warned the authorities here that he was a criminal. 

Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona. When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn’t have a seat and had to be re-ticketed. At the time, I thought it was just the sort of innocent snafu that makes air travel such a joy. But in hindsight, it was clear I’d been flagged. Someone, somewhere, probably wearing unconvincing make-up and his sister/wife’s/mum’s underwear, had made a phone call.

The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up.

In a country where gangs of Islamists can gang r@pe children, the full force of the law comes down on comedians for offending alphabet activists. 





It is insane. It is also the reality in Britain, where 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes. 

The problem isn’t this one arrest, as much as it is offensive. It’s that the UK government–at all levels, and in all of the countries in the United Kingdom–is at war with its citizens. At least the citizens who dissent from the prevailing ideology. It is Orwellian. The powers that be call this freedom. 

Dissent of any kind is being suppressed. In this case, the process is the punishment. On the streets, it goes beyond that. 

The result? An escalation of the conflict. And it will only get worse. 





Yesterday I watched an episode on Triggernometry to which I was glued. Historian of war David Betz sat down with Francis and Konstantine to discuss the likelihood of civil conflict in the UK, and Betz was quite clear–and gloomy about it–that the UK was just a spark away from an insurgency. He isn’t sure what form it will take, but the conditions are ripe for civil conflict. 

The episode is long–an hour and a half–and I watched it through. If you are interested in the subject, you should too. 

Betz doesn’t see a way out, and he identifies the failure of “multiculturalism” as the root cause. The loss of faith in the system is complete, and the system is predictably jacking up the pressure. Such as by arresting people showing even minor dissent. 

He is right. He doesn’t like that we are here. He is quite clear he worries about what will come. He just sees it coming. 

Betz is not an activist–just a scholar who has studied civil wars for decades. I am afraid he is prescient. 

Free speech has been a focus of Triggernometry lately, and the reality in the UK is truly frightening. 

The United States is following the same path, although the election of Trump may provide a pressure relief valve. Or, it may not. The permanent state, academia, Pravda Media, and the violent left are in a position to push back hard, and it may be that the left instead of the right, may explode as they did in 2020. 

Francis and Konstantine also did something extraordinary–sat down with Tommy Robinson for an interview. Robinson is one of the most controversial figures in Britain because he has been warning about so-called “grooming gangs” for two decades, and has been portrayed as a far-right white supremacist. He turns out to be much more complicated than the cartoon figure he has been painted as. The interview is incredibly long, and you can find it on YouTube. 





This conflict will not go away, and it will get worse. The fall and winter are coming, so things may or may not simmer down this year, but there is no way that this will be resolved without massive changes in government policies. 

What we are seeing is a nascent insurgency, and insurgencies are unpredictable. How bad it gets is unpredictable, At minimum, the prevailing political order will be swept away. Labour and the Conservatives will be swept away as political forces for a long time. 

It’s impossible to know when the Labour government falls–they have 4 years before elections MUST be held. I suspect they will be gone before then as a result of growing civil unrest. 

UPDATE: 

Keir Starmer is dancing all over the place. He keeps on talking about cracking down on migrants, but turns around and expands benefits for them, and is now importing Gazans. With the uproar about arresting Linehan, he is attacking the arrest. It is, however, going to keep happening. 





Starmer’s criticism wasn’t directed at policing speech per se; he merely said that they had more important crimes to pursue. That’s not good enough. 


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