Free speech is in a free fall as trans tyranny continues to reign supreme over the United Kingdom, complete with yet another arrest over social media posts.

Irish comedian Graham Linehan arrived back in London and was greeted by a welcoming party of police who promptly took him into custody. One would expect the police wouldn’t have time to concern themselves with one joke-telling Englishman when they have whole gangs of immigrant pedophiles and rapists roaming the country. Quite the contrary; they could spare five policemen to take care of the bloke whose comments caused leftists to cry.

“It was clear I’d been flagged,” Linehan wrote of his experience. “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).

“Trans” people and “trans allies” can take to the streets screaming for someone to “punch a TERF [Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist],” but the moment you “offend” a “trans” person, you’re in trouble. The irony in the Isles is not lost on us or Linehan. “I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist,” he wrote, “locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online — all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers.”

This is just one of the many demonstrations of the demise of the UK. Britons are struggling to pay rent and burdensome taxes, while the Labour government gives “asylum seekers,” a.k.a. illegal immigrants, rent-free homes. Both the Labour government and the Home Office agree that the rights of illegal migrants are more important than those of their own citizens. A Home Office report claimed that the fear of a two-tiered police system that many are experiencing is an “extreme right-wing narrative.” The proof is in the pudding, though, as up to 30 Britons a day are arrested for petty offenses like social media posts and catcalls while child rapists walk the streets scot-free because, according to the Home Office counsel, “In a free society, we’re all obliged to put up with some degree of perceived nuisance.”

Call me crazy, but the large number of young English girls who were raped and violated may not agree with his definition of a “perceived nuisance.”

Vice President JD Vance unabashedly called out the UK for its “crisis of censorship” at his address to the Munich Security Conference in February. The State Department’s annual Human Rights Report also slammed British authorities’ “serious restrictions on freedom of expression,” noting that the “human rights situation worsened” in Britain over the last year. The report also criticized laws like 2023’s Online Safety Act.

Toby Young, a journalist and a member of the House of Lords, acknowledges, “Free speech is in worse shape in the UK now than it has been, probably since the Second World War.” Welcoming the criticism from Vance and others, he added, “Sir Keir Starmer should sit up and take notice.”

However, despite the U.S. and Vance’s warnings to the UK and Europe, Prime Minister Starmer shows no signs of stopping or even slowing; instead, he’s surging. Following the riots that raged after three British girls were murdered at a dance party, Starmer boasted that more than 400 people were arrested and jailed, “some for online activity.” This July, his government assembled an elite force of special agents to monitor speech on social media, while also updating the definition of terrorist ideologies to include “cultural nationalism,” singling out Westerners who express concern over mass migration.

Some critics say that the U.S. is not one to talk, that it’s the pot calling the kettle black since it’s supposedly crushing speech by addressing the riots, violence, and racial harassment that were happening on college campuses. In reality, and thanks to a strong administration, the U.S. is not allowing those who hate our country and seek to harm it to continue in those violent acts. They can still express their opinions online or elsewhere and peacefully protest. In the UK, authorities are encouraging and defending those who hate their country to the point of arresting a citizen for simply stating that he didn’t like seeing all the Palestinian flags on his street. They stand up for and back the rights of those who wave a Palestinian flag as opposed to those who pledge allegiance to the Union Jack.

According to Starmer, the UK has had free speech for hundreds of years, with two exceptions: pedophiles and terrorists. If that’s the case, then how is saying something to defend and protect women like Graham did now considered terrorism? How is it that praying silently near an abortion clinic falls into one of those two exceptions? Many of the social media posts that everyday English folks are being arrested for are related to trans and gender ideology, as seen here. None of those examples could be categorized as pedophilic or terrorism, at least not in the traditional understanding of terrorism, and none of those incited violence in any way.

But is that the heart of the issue? Is truth terrorism?

If the Left considers some words to actually be violence, then that is how you get there in an upside-down world. If stating the fact that a man cannot be a woman is understood to be violence or terrorism, then your country is not living in reality, is not free, and is on the path to destruction. The UK seems to have gone through the Lewis Carol looking glass and is following the same path of confusion and backwards “logic” into which Alice stumbled. Hopefully, the UK can wake up from the “wonderland” before it’s too late.

Update: Today, Linehan showed up in court wearing some speak-the-truth signage.

Correction: Linehan is Irish, not British as originally stated.