3 Sep 2025 1:36 pm
Free Speech is dead in the U.K. The U.K. is lost. *** and Islam have caused its downfall.
Nigel Farage warns Americans traveling to UK could face arrest
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Nigel Farage told a House committee that American citizens faced the risk of arrest if they traveled to the United Kingdom after making social media posts that fall foul of British laws on speech. The British politician, who is a member of Parliament and leads the country's right-wing Reform U.K. party, gave the warning after Irish comedian Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport over his X posts about transgender individuals. Free speech restrictions in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe have been a recurring topic of discussion for the right in the United States. But advocates of laws against "hate speech" and incitement to violence argue they are necessary for a cohesive and inclusive society. "He's not even a British citizen. He's an Irish citizen. This could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow, that has said things online that the British government and British police don't like," Farage told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday."It is a potentially big threat to tech bosses, to many, many others. "Linehan had made a reference in one post to punching a trans woman who had entered a female space to make them leave, which he told police was a joke. He has clashed frequently with trans rights advocates. "At what point did we become North Korea?" Farage told the committee. "Well I think the Irish comedy writer found that out two days ago at Heathrow Airport. This is a genuinely worrying, concerning, and shocking situation."