Careful now.
Graham Linehan should not do a Lucy Connolly and plead guilty, but instead do a Ricky Jones and plead not guilty before electing for trial by jury. That is what the Palestine Action defendants are rightly going to do. And so should he.
We of the Father Ted generation know for a fact about the dazzlingly racist primetime comedy while out and proud paedophiles were justifying themselves on the BBC and before parliamentary committees in the decade of our birth, but we still find those things hard to believe.
In the 2070s, either people born in the 2020s will know for a fact about gender identity but still find it hard to believe, or the "reproductive technology" that it will have engendered will have made it professionally, socially and perhaps legally impossible to have children the old-fashioned way, and possibly also to have sexual relations with anyone other than adult women and adolescent boys, both prostituted from what was once the working class. We stand on the cusp.
No charges yet but not tweeting is the only condition of his bail.
ReplyDeleteAnd where is the Irish Embassy?
DeleteOf course, all this legislation was passed by the last lot, so full of hot air today.