To be fair, I don't think Tom Felton has been outspoken *against* JKR like the other three "Gryffindors" who have been hasty in speaking out at every opportunity.
That clip, he wasn't even given a chance to say anything at all. He was silenced as much as the interviewer.
The question and points asked were so polite, reasonable and general that I cannot believe anyone would take offence or avoid such a line of enquiry. No wait - but we know why of course. The much-loathed woman, the harridan of anti-trans rhetoric, the murderous, genocidal, bullying bigot, the most hated person on the internet. (She has taken your title Graham - sorry about that dear boy. Please step up your game.)
Her views are that toxic and that appalling that we dare not even ask the most innocent and banal subjects as her name is attached via a gossamer thin silver chord.
I have never heard of Mr Duffy before - he seems like an unremarkable, colourless man on the limited evidence of this 'interview'. Who was it who demanded that he shall not be probed on JKR? His manager? His mummy?
Whatever very limited patience I once had over these pitiful cowards has long evaporated.
It is pathetic. Think for yourself. Be adult, please, while you still can.
For your reference Mole, Joe Duffy is the host of the highly popular 'Liveline' phone-in show on Irish state-owned RTE (our version of the BBC). So there is no way you would have heard of him unless you have Irish connections or listen to RTE online.
A lot of the letters in the Sunday Independent referred to, or expressed support for, Liveline/Joe Duffy because he bravely hosted a three-day phone-in on the fears of Irish women about their safe spaces and the manner in which the Irish political and NGO elites are trying to replace terms like 'mother', 'woman' etc with 'person with a cervix' etc. As a result Liveline/Joe Duffy seem to have experienced counter-fire from EXACTLY the same sort of oddballs, nut jobs, cowardly scumbags, well-off scrotes and media tarts that have attacked Graham and tried to destroy him.
If Graham can get onto Liveline it would obviously help his cause by generating more publicity for his campaign to get Father Ted the Musical on stage. It would also help alert more of the Irish public (not to mention the thousands of British expats here) to his plight.
He's (Duffy) not come out and specifically said anything against the musical then? So this is more of a general open letter in his direction then as someone who could air some alternative views not in the current media vacuum?
Joe Duffy is one of the most popular broadcasters in Ireland and has a history of covering subjects many would rather were never spoken about. He did remarkable work after the publication of the Ryan Report, allowing the victims of institutional abuse the space and time to tell their stories, he never judged or hurried them along. He is the only person in the state broadcaster that had the nerve to allow women to express our hurt and anger at being written out of our own sex.
The woman who created the universe they exist in and are promoting a kerching tour about for Warner Studios is entirely written out by many people still involved in promoting that cash cow. Mysteriously missing. I think that's really rather worth asking a question about and he is an adult and he should be well enough 'trained' by that 'professional PR company' to be able to cope with answering. He's been doing this kind of thing for years. I know of many adults who are still Harry Potter Fans and have done the tours. They'll probably do this new one.
The answers Tom Felton has given since are good and then they could have moved on to the next question. There was no headline there. Reacting like the Stasi is never a good look. And as per the Streisand effect, there are headlines in that.
This doesn't sound much like they've written her out to me,
"Warner Bros. has enjoyed a creative, productive, and fulfilling partnership with J.K. Rowling for the past 20 years.
"She is one of the world's most accomplished storytellers, and we are proud to be the studio to bring her vision, characters, and stories to life now - and for decades to come."
You've fallen for a fake narrative. In the media conflict sells, especially when it comes to celebrity gossip. If they can't find any, then they make up some "anonymous source" to dish the dirt.
The story about the Harry Potter anniversary show is perfect example. It's more than likely JKR just couldn't be bothered to turn up, it's not like she needs the money, so no tittle-tattle there. But then Mr Anon gives the scoop to some random hack and a weeks worth of clickbait was born.
In the end it turned out JKR wasn't snubbed, she was on the show and was praised throughout by the cast and directors.
Anyway, here we are 6 months later. Another Harry Potter promo, another hack throwing fuel on the fire and another round of clickbait... Imagine if instead of all the fake conflict, these journalist just printed what JKR said?
You seem to be missing my point, it was a second or third party PR person out of shot who decided to take it upon themselves to do this, and against the wishes of others, like those who presumably decide these things. I did not say it was Warners FFS.
I have in no way fallen for any 'fake narrative'. You can f**k right off with that patronising shite. Why are you turning this very simple matter into some conspiracy theory? I haven't 'fallen' for your view that's all and you have every right not to agree with mine. I feel sorry for Tom Felton who has so far managed to mostly dodge this absolutely ridiculous showboating need to show 'allyship' from some highly privileged people.
Why are you guessing my or JKR's motives? Why not stop guessing and look to what happened.
It is mentioned in most news bulletins and I have been listening to one BBC radio channel all day and trans rights activism has saturated all coverage of everything yet again - banking and cycling are two snippets when there's the obligatory false 'balance' where you have to have 'trans allies' fighting for their confected battles over rights that minority always have had and are not losing. I was reading some new legislation today - it is actions that cause a distraction that lead to others not getting the delivery of a service that they need that is frowned upon. Other people - genuinely marginalised are missing out and not getting the services and support they do need.
It's funny how you use words such as 'clickbait' to diminish something you do not value and so can discard it.
They always have a bunch of PR people at these press junkets. Tom Felton was there to promote some new Harry Potter thing, not speculate on bad faith rumours about JK Rowling. The PR person saw where the reporter was going and did her job. You're the one trying to turn this simple matter into a conspiracy theory about the "mysteriously missing" JKR.
I know how they work. The moment JKR was mentioned - that was it, next question. Not allowed to be allowed to answer the question - which when allowed to later he is quoted as doing. All this presence of an absence and knowing winks is boring. And no, no I am not.
Have you never seen an actor being interviewed? What's your favourite colour is one answer I'm always on the edge of my seat to find out. Look up Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan's thoughts on emojis. And their withering responses. It's ground breaking stuff.
I sent this letter about 2 weeks ago to J. Mulville, as yet no reply (surprise!). Hatrick should be deluged with protest letters.
Dear Jimmy Mulville,
I’ve just learned that the proposal to make a musical based on Father Ted is now not going ahead. And that this is something to do with Graham Linehan’s support for women’s protected rights, and that he doesn’t believe humans can change sex. Well, I’m with him there. I also share his worry about the increasing numbers of unhappy young people who have been persuaded that their bodies are ‘wrong’, and that they need medication and surgery which will render them infertile and unable to experience orgasm or sexual pleasure. I support his campaign to protect children from unsafe practices.
I’m frightened by the concept of ‘no debate’ and the power of bullies to remove people from their jobs simply because they disagree with a belief system based on feelings and not science. I believe in free speech in a democratic society.
I believe especially in the right of creative people to produce work which might be provocative and controversial. As you did once. It was brave to do Father Ted when you did. The church in Ireland was still very powerful at that time. I, my friends and family, were staggered that you’d ‘got away with it’ and still can’t believe sometimes that it went out so long ago, challenging as it did the idiocy of the church and made up beliefs. It is my favourite comedy of all time, for those reasons yes, but mostly of course because it was, and remains, brilliantly funny. I know it off by heart and it still makes me fall about laughing. And I thank you for having the courage then to back it.
We must be careful of pandering to bullies who want to shut down creatives, to those who want to control what we can see and read; to those who demand there is only one right way to think. You know well what that can lead to. And who knows what they’ll demand of you next? I notice you still proudly (rightly) list Father Ted on your website, (and how is it you boast of that, but won’t proceed with something by the same author? Where’s the logic? Where’s the consistency?). How long before there’s a demand that you take that down; if there is that demand, will you give in?
It’s great that you’re supporting a girls’ education and support project, and an anti-trafficking charity. So you do know that females need particular protections then? And you know that those girls will always be female, and cannot become men? Or do you believe in magic? I can’t help thinking that, as intelligent people, you know in your hearts that Linehan is right, but you’ve opted for the easy way out.
“First they came for....etc”, you know the quote. You fearlessly challenged those who believe in transubstantiation 30 years ago, why pander now to those who believe a new version of it? Be brave again, please. Give us our musical.
This made me well up - all power to your elbow :-).
It still has my elderly aunts in its grip and still echoes down the generations. I had to explain what the crown of thorns was to my friends' little boy recently - in England - who was having trouble sleeping and I managed to get out of him why. Something at school (gulp) something a teacher did (double gulp). He's sent to the local 'best school' and his head was being filled with this with absolutely no context to help him comprehend it. My very English secular friend was clueless. I remember the gory images and being frightened to the core as a child - there was a crucifix and image every few feet in homes when I grew up and I remember standing stuck looking at statues and the nails in that poor man's feet and the wound in his side as we left church one day. My mum's explanations were so flaky I think she realised the spell had been broken and she wasn't to let me live in that fear. I was under the mistaken belief I'd been ex-communicated for too long and wouldn't step foot in Catholic churches as I thought I was cast out for my parents' sins. Babies out of wedlock and divorce that naughty women do.
The TRA playbook is almost identical. Oh won't women shush.
it makes me so mad, indoctrination of children especially. Horrible presenting them with those images of human cruelty. Vicious treatment of women, all religions the same. I was so lucky that it all passed me by as a child. Was astonished when my catholic -raised partner told me that catholics believe that the biccy thingy and the wine actually ARE the body and blood of Jesus. When I stopped laughing I said so I guess catholics are cannibalistic as well as deluded then. Thank goodness you were there for that little boy, young brains are so susceptible to adult rubbish.
I think the tide is turning but some people are so deeply captured I fear they’ll never see sense again. Even an intervention won’t work.
Comerford had a go at me the other day on Twitter and from the start was using nasty insinuations. What is this movement that has emboldened people to think they have the right to judge the morality of someone they don’t know, without having exchanged a word previously? It’s given people (mainly men) a cosh with which to attack women, to tell them that they, the men, are the real feminists (India Willoughby), just like t-women are the real women, we are a sub type, soon to have no legal or social status.
The most common cosh at the moment is that we are aligning with right wing fascists. This is where Matt Walsh doesn’t help, even though I appreciate what he highlighted. But they have a schtick going now where they’ve been told WE are a cult and we’ve been radicalised. On that basis all anti fascists are radicalised groups, all resistance fighters, all those opposing the aggressive imposition of a new order that overrides permissions, they are the real cultists, the real scary radicals. Everything about this movement is incoherent, a melange of rehashed slogans and secondhand principles repurposed to have only a sound bite ‘truth’; Ben Goldacre once coined the word ‘truthiness’. Nothing concrete, everything shifting so fast it gives only an impression of meaning. Catch it and there’s nothing there.
Bit of a ramble and preaching to the converted I know.
This will crumble and Father Ted will ride again!!
For the moment I feel ok with aligning with people who I wouldn't on other issues, eg Sajid Javid, even Johnson. Several conservative peers etc. It's maddening that 'the left' is branded as being the villains on this issue. 'Left' depends entirely on where you place your centre! The Labour MPs who've said ridiculous things are not what I call left, they're centrist bordering on right-wing, Lammy. Creasy, Nandy Rayner etc. But Creasy's good on other women's issues and I would support her then. We have to build a movement on this one issue, and that means joining up when the need arises with people we disagree with on other matters.
It’s a tiring battle as it is, shifting goalposts, unjust accusations and insults, the maddening incoherence of the opposing ‘argument’ but it’s especially frustrating to feel embattled from within your own side, as I’ve seen beginning. We have to accept this issue is so bollocking insane that the most unexpected people can be for it, or against it.
My experience so far is that the people on our side seem to be on some branch of the left but in the US it’s the other way round. And many people with aligning views have arrived at it from a very different place from me. Like religion. I’m an atheist.
But I agree we must work together on this.
I think Nelson Mandela made a point about having to work with people with whom he was ideologically opposed on most other issues.
I'm in the US, Ms. Kerkin. Coming from the middle-ish left. I think I know more about the movement in the UK than I do about here because there's more info online about what the UK is up to. I'm hopeful that we'll be following you soon. I'm grateful to you all for contributing to that hope.
I don't like leaving my dogs and I'm not one for musicals normally but I'd go wherever it's showing and many times over. It just feels like it would be a watershed moment. Father Ted and the Return to Sanity..
So sorry that my fave talented comedy writer and man of principle is treated in this way.
Cowardly and misguided actors, producers etc who are only too happy to 'virtue signal' for their own pocket and careers and bow down to their fears of luvvy-mob rule rather than stand up for reality against the 'woke mafia'.
Must say I would think many times before refusing £200k. Absolute respect Glinner .... if it wasn't so friggin tragic I'd suggest you get down to writing '1984, The Musical Comedy'!!!!
yes, much respect for Graham's principled stand in refusing the money. If he writes something else, maybe it could be crowdfunded. (though how he'd have the time I can't imagine, this battle must take up so much of his time.)
Graham write a comedy with Ricky Gervais or someone like John Cleese about office life in 2022. It would be a smash hit and then we can go and see Father Ted in peace. You can get the material from all your workplace LGBTQIA+ heretics who signed up to your substack to preserve their sanity
Nathan Barley is almost a precursor show, adults navigating an infantilised media industry. Hilarious at the time, before we realised the dumbest people in the office were going to become political.
Well said ,Graham. Brilliantly written piece and all of these " virtue signalling" people ,of both sexes ,who accede to the demands of the woke brigade ,even although they know it's all lies ,should be utterly ashamed of their cowardice.They won't find another comedy writer who's half as good as you. In fact ,this cult has killed comedy stone dead 😭. Funny how the Wokerati in America have suddenly remembered what a WOMAN is ,and that SEX MATTERS ,in the light of the Supreme Court decision 🤔🙄. You can at least live with yourself ,unlike these cowering sychophants.♥️🙏👍
Everyone knows the difference between a man and woman...always have and always will.
The power exerted comes from the influence of gender surgery....to keep the money flowing everyone must follow gender ideology.
With JK and say people like Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle...(though I am sure they are doing their best). At the moment they are too big to cancel!
I think with you its a blatant "see we can cancel people however talented and successful you are".
You are being made an example of to stop others.
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It is not only money, but that's a part of it for sure. Money is needed to buy allegiance, compliance and the tools to do what they want to do, by any means necessary.
Given the popularity in Ireland of Father Ted ( well apart from the church obvs ) , is it time for The Nolan Show to revisit and shine a light on these cowards and chancers ?
Sorry to those confused by the subhead. No, Joe Duffy is not standing in the way of the Ted musical. I'm just hoping he'll grant me a platform.
Not to rub your nose in it, quite the opposite, there's been a new development ref JK Rowling's relationship with Warner https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/warner-bros-disowns-aide-who-blocked-question-about-jk-rowling-7f670zgvx
I was waiting for that :-). It doesn't surprise me that they've done this - they are very canny and are big enough to say what they like.
Also, the guy in that video above is NOT Joe Duffy.
No, he's the nonentity playing Draco Malfoy
To be fair, I don't think Tom Felton has been outspoken *against* JKR like the other three "Gryffindors" who have been hasty in speaking out at every opportunity.
That clip, he wasn't even given a chance to say anything at all. He was silenced as much as the interviewer.
Fair point
"Next question please"
The question and points asked were so polite, reasonable and general that I cannot believe anyone would take offence or avoid such a line of enquiry. No wait - but we know why of course. The much-loathed woman, the harridan of anti-trans rhetoric, the murderous, genocidal, bullying bigot, the most hated person on the internet. (She has taken your title Graham - sorry about that dear boy. Please step up your game.)
Her views are that toxic and that appalling that we dare not even ask the most innocent and banal subjects as her name is attached via a gossamer thin silver chord.
I have never heard of Mr Duffy before - he seems like an unremarkable, colourless man on the limited evidence of this 'interview'. Who was it who demanded that he shall not be probed on JKR? His manager? His mummy?
Whatever very limited patience I once had over these pitiful cowards has long evaporated.
It is pathetic. Think for yourself. Be adult, please, while you still can.
For your reference Mole, Joe Duffy is the host of the highly popular 'Liveline' phone-in show on Irish state-owned RTE (our version of the BBC). So there is no way you would have heard of him unless you have Irish connections or listen to RTE online.
A lot of the letters in the Sunday Independent referred to, or expressed support for, Liveline/Joe Duffy because he bravely hosted a three-day phone-in on the fears of Irish women about their safe spaces and the manner in which the Irish political and NGO elites are trying to replace terms like 'mother', 'woman' etc with 'person with a cervix' etc. As a result Liveline/Joe Duffy seem to have experienced counter-fire from EXACTLY the same sort of oddballs, nut jobs, cowardly scumbags, well-off scrotes and media tarts that have attacked Graham and tried to destroy him.
If Graham can get onto Liveline it would obviously help his cause by generating more publicity for his campaign to get Father Ted the Musical on stage. It would also help alert more of the Irish public (not to mention the thousands of British expats here) to his plight.
Ah, many thanks for taking the trouble to explain that. I appreciate it.
I assumed he was an actor somehow connected to the HP franchise.
For me, this makes it worse though!
He's (Duffy) not come out and specifically said anything against the musical then? So this is more of a general open letter in his direction then as someone who could air some alternative views not in the current media vacuum?
Exactly. I'm glad to see there is someone else here as intelligent as myself!!!
Joe Duffy is one of the most popular broadcasters in Ireland and has a history of covering subjects many would rather were never spoken about. He did remarkable work after the publication of the Ryan Report, allowing the victims of institutional abuse the space and time to tell their stories, he never judged or hurried them along. He is the only person in the state broadcaster that had the nerve to allow women to express our hurt and anger at being written out of our own sex.
Thank you for that.
The 'interview' is of Tom Felton who played a character in She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's books (and the films of them).
ThoughShe Be But Little, Joe Duffy has nothing to do with banning 'Father Ted the Musical' - see my reply below to Mole.
Ah ta - I know who Duffy is - I was wondering what he'd said to ban the musical and what he had to do with Tom Felton!?
Apologies ThoughShe Be Little I misunderstood your point.
Nope, it was a loaded question. They shut it down because the reporter was just fishing for a headline.
The woman who created the universe they exist in and are promoting a kerching tour about for Warner Studios is entirely written out by many people still involved in promoting that cash cow. Mysteriously missing. I think that's really rather worth asking a question about and he is an adult and he should be well enough 'trained' by that 'professional PR company' to be able to cope with answering. He's been doing this kind of thing for years. I know of many adults who are still Harry Potter Fans and have done the tours. They'll probably do this new one.
The answers Tom Felton has given since are good and then they could have moved on to the next question. There was no headline there. Reacting like the Stasi is never a good look. And as per the Streisand effect, there are headlines in that.
This doesn't sound much like they've written her out to me,
"Warner Bros. has enjoyed a creative, productive, and fulfilling partnership with J.K. Rowling for the past 20 years.
"She is one of the world's most accomplished storytellers, and we are proud to be the studio to bring her vision, characters, and stories to life now - and for decades to come."
You've fallen for a fake narrative. In the media conflict sells, especially when it comes to celebrity gossip. If they can't find any, then they make up some "anonymous source" to dish the dirt.
The story about the Harry Potter anniversary show is perfect example. It's more than likely JKR just couldn't be bothered to turn up, it's not like she needs the money, so no tittle-tattle there. But then Mr Anon gives the scoop to some random hack and a weeks worth of clickbait was born.
In the end it turned out JKR wasn't snubbed, she was on the show and was praised throughout by the cast and directors.
Anyway, here we are 6 months later. Another Harry Potter promo, another hack throwing fuel on the fire and another round of clickbait... Imagine if instead of all the fake conflict, these journalist just printed what JKR said?
You seem to be missing my point, it was a second or third party PR person out of shot who decided to take it upon themselves to do this, and against the wishes of others, like those who presumably decide these things. I did not say it was Warners FFS.
I have in no way fallen for any 'fake narrative'. You can f**k right off with that patronising shite. Why are you turning this very simple matter into some conspiracy theory? I haven't 'fallen' for your view that's all and you have every right not to agree with mine. I feel sorry for Tom Felton who has so far managed to mostly dodge this absolutely ridiculous showboating need to show 'allyship' from some highly privileged people.
Why are you guessing my or JKR's motives? Why not stop guessing and look to what happened.
It is mentioned in most news bulletins and I have been listening to one BBC radio channel all day and trans rights activism has saturated all coverage of everything yet again - banking and cycling are two snippets when there's the obligatory false 'balance' where you have to have 'trans allies' fighting for their confected battles over rights that minority always have had and are not losing. I was reading some new legislation today - it is actions that cause a distraction that lead to others not getting the delivery of a service that they need that is frowned upon. Other people - genuinely marginalised are missing out and not getting the services and support they do need.
It's funny how you use words such as 'clickbait' to diminish something you do not value and so can discard it.
They always have a bunch of PR people at these press junkets. Tom Felton was there to promote some new Harry Potter thing, not speculate on bad faith rumours about JK Rowling. The PR person saw where the reporter was going and did her job. You're the one trying to turn this simple matter into a conspiracy theory about the "mysteriously missing" JKR.
I know how they work. The moment JKR was mentioned - that was it, next question. Not allowed to be allowed to answer the question - which when allowed to later he is quoted as doing. All this presence of an absence and knowing winks is boring. And no, no I am not.
Have you never seen an actor being interviewed? What's your favourite colour is one answer I'm always on the edge of my seat to find out. Look up Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan's thoughts on emojis. And their withering responses. It's ground breaking stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nd6yGFh3LU&t=48s
I saw Cate Blanchett answer something insultingly banal once with a similarly withering response. Thoroughly deserved!
Interesting! I would have to see the full thing to agree or disagree of course. And perhaps I should!
I sent this letter about 2 weeks ago to J. Mulville, as yet no reply (surprise!). Hatrick should be deluged with protest letters.
Dear Jimmy Mulville,
I’ve just learned that the proposal to make a musical based on Father Ted is now not going ahead. And that this is something to do with Graham Linehan’s support for women’s protected rights, and that he doesn’t believe humans can change sex. Well, I’m with him there. I also share his worry about the increasing numbers of unhappy young people who have been persuaded that their bodies are ‘wrong’, and that they need medication and surgery which will render them infertile and unable to experience orgasm or sexual pleasure. I support his campaign to protect children from unsafe practices.
I’m frightened by the concept of ‘no debate’ and the power of bullies to remove people from their jobs simply because they disagree with a belief system based on feelings and not science. I believe in free speech in a democratic society.
I believe especially in the right of creative people to produce work which might be provocative and controversial. As you did once. It was brave to do Father Ted when you did. The church in Ireland was still very powerful at that time. I, my friends and family, were staggered that you’d ‘got away with it’ and still can’t believe sometimes that it went out so long ago, challenging as it did the idiocy of the church and made up beliefs. It is my favourite comedy of all time, for those reasons yes, but mostly of course because it was, and remains, brilliantly funny. I know it off by heart and it still makes me fall about laughing. And I thank you for having the courage then to back it.
We must be careful of pandering to bullies who want to shut down creatives, to those who want to control what we can see and read; to those who demand there is only one right way to think. You know well what that can lead to. And who knows what they’ll demand of you next? I notice you still proudly (rightly) list Father Ted on your website, (and how is it you boast of that, but won’t proceed with something by the same author? Where’s the logic? Where’s the consistency?). How long before there’s a demand that you take that down; if there is that demand, will you give in?
It’s great that you’re supporting a girls’ education and support project, and an anti-trafficking charity. So you do know that females need particular protections then? And you know that those girls will always be female, and cannot become men? Or do you believe in magic? I can’t help thinking that, as intelligent people, you know in your hearts that Linehan is right, but you’ve opted for the easy way out.
“First they came for....etc”, you know the quote. You fearlessly challenged those who believe in transubstantiation 30 years ago, why pander now to those who believe a new version of it? Be brave again, please. Give us our musical.
Thank you so much for this!
I forgot to add, I sent a copy to Sonia Friedman. (also no reply or acknowledgement, natch!)
This made me well up - all power to your elbow :-).
It still has my elderly aunts in its grip and still echoes down the generations. I had to explain what the crown of thorns was to my friends' little boy recently - in England - who was having trouble sleeping and I managed to get out of him why. Something at school (gulp) something a teacher did (double gulp). He's sent to the local 'best school' and his head was being filled with this with absolutely no context to help him comprehend it. My very English secular friend was clueless. I remember the gory images and being frightened to the core as a child - there was a crucifix and image every few feet in homes when I grew up and I remember standing stuck looking at statues and the nails in that poor man's feet and the wound in his side as we left church one day. My mum's explanations were so flaky I think she realised the spell had been broken and she wasn't to let me live in that fear. I was under the mistaken belief I'd been ex-communicated for too long and wouldn't step foot in Catholic churches as I thought I was cast out for my parents' sins. Babies out of wedlock and divorce that naughty women do.
The TRA playbook is almost identical. Oh won't women shush.
NO!
it makes me so mad, indoctrination of children especially. Horrible presenting them with those images of human cruelty. Vicious treatment of women, all religions the same. I was so lucky that it all passed me by as a child. Was astonished when my catholic -raised partner told me that catholics believe that the biccy thingy and the wine actually ARE the body and blood of Jesus. When I stopped laughing I said so I guess catholics are cannibalistic as well as deluded then. Thank goodness you were there for that little boy, young brains are so susceptible to adult rubbish.
I’m in your corner Graham.
I think the tide is turning but some people are so deeply captured I fear they’ll never see sense again. Even an intervention won’t work.
Comerford had a go at me the other day on Twitter and from the start was using nasty insinuations. What is this movement that has emboldened people to think they have the right to judge the morality of someone they don’t know, without having exchanged a word previously? It’s given people (mainly men) a cosh with which to attack women, to tell them that they, the men, are the real feminists (India Willoughby), just like t-women are the real women, we are a sub type, soon to have no legal or social status.
The most common cosh at the moment is that we are aligning with right wing fascists. This is where Matt Walsh doesn’t help, even though I appreciate what he highlighted. But they have a schtick going now where they’ve been told WE are a cult and we’ve been radicalised. On that basis all anti fascists are radicalised groups, all resistance fighters, all those opposing the aggressive imposition of a new order that overrides permissions, they are the real cultists, the real scary radicals. Everything about this movement is incoherent, a melange of rehashed slogans and secondhand principles repurposed to have only a sound bite ‘truth’; Ben Goldacre once coined the word ‘truthiness’. Nothing concrete, everything shifting so fast it gives only an impression of meaning. Catch it and there’s nothing there.
Bit of a ramble and preaching to the converted I know.
This will crumble and Father Ted will ride again!!
Not a ramble, it was a good read :-)
Thank you! 😘
For the moment I feel ok with aligning with people who I wouldn't on other issues, eg Sajid Javid, even Johnson. Several conservative peers etc. It's maddening that 'the left' is branded as being the villains on this issue. 'Left' depends entirely on where you place your centre! The Labour MPs who've said ridiculous things are not what I call left, they're centrist bordering on right-wing, Lammy. Creasy, Nandy Rayner etc. But Creasy's good on other women's issues and I would support her then. We have to build a movement on this one issue, and that means joining up when the need arises with people we disagree with on other matters.
I fully agree.
It’s a tiring battle as it is, shifting goalposts, unjust accusations and insults, the maddening incoherence of the opposing ‘argument’ but it’s especially frustrating to feel embattled from within your own side, as I’ve seen beginning. We have to accept this issue is so bollocking insane that the most unexpected people can be for it, or against it.
My experience so far is that the people on our side seem to be on some branch of the left but in the US it’s the other way round. And many people with aligning views have arrived at it from a very different place from me. Like religion. I’m an atheist.
But I agree we must work together on this.
I think Nelson Mandela made a point about having to work with people with whom he was ideologically opposed on most other issues.
But right is right!! 👍🏻✊🏻
I'm in the US, Ms. Kerkin. Coming from the middle-ish left. I think I know more about the movement in the UK than I do about here because there's more info online about what the UK is up to. I'm hopeful that we'll be following you soon. I'm grateful to you all for contributing to that hope.
Goldacre is another one I used to admire but his silence on trans madness has changend that .
oh no! It's when scientists and medics go for it that I lose heart.
I used to read his blog regularly but haven’t for ages. So he’s silent too eh? Dammit.
Preach oan sister 👏👏👏
Jesus... The badgering and the bullying.
Still going strong.
I'm sure the Ted Musical will happen. It feels like it'll be a watershed moment, for so many reasons.
Don't be afraid to send up the signal of there's anything the sane majority can do to help wrest this from the hands of these cowards.
There isn't a single person I've spoken to who wouldn't go see Ted.
So sorry this is happening to you, Graham. Thank you for everything you continue to do.
I don't like leaving my dogs and I'm not one for musicals normally but I'd go wherever it's showing and many times over. It just feels like it would be a watershed moment. Father Ted and the Return to Sanity..
Plus, women like me, are being robbed of a musical delight, brightening up our oh so stolen lives!
What a miserable all round 'git' this male is--- alongside the rest---
So sorry that my fave talented comedy writer and man of principle is treated in this way.
Cowardly and misguided actors, producers etc who are only too happy to 'virtue signal' for their own pocket and careers and bow down to their fears of luvvy-mob rule rather than stand up for reality against the 'woke mafia'.
Must say I would think many times before refusing £200k. Absolute respect Glinner .... if it wasn't so friggin tragic I'd suggest you get down to writing '1984, The Musical Comedy'!!!!
yes, much respect for Graham's principled stand in refusing the money. If he writes something else, maybe it could be crowdfunded. (though how he'd have the time I can't imagine, this battle must take up so much of his time.)
Graham write a comedy with Ricky Gervais or someone like John Cleese about office life in 2022. It would be a smash hit and then we can go and see Father Ted in peace. You can get the material from all your workplace LGBTQIA+ heretics who signed up to your substack to preserve their sanity
Nathan Barley is almost a precursor show, adults navigating an infantilised media industry. Hilarious at the time, before we realised the dumbest people in the office were going to become political.
I think Graham and others could gang up on these nutters and get change by making jokes
Well said ,Graham. Brilliantly written piece and all of these " virtue signalling" people ,of both sexes ,who accede to the demands of the woke brigade ,even although they know it's all lies ,should be utterly ashamed of their cowardice.They won't find another comedy writer who's half as good as you. In fact ,this cult has killed comedy stone dead 😭. Funny how the Wokerati in America have suddenly remembered what a WOMAN is ,and that SEX MATTERS ,in the light of the Supreme Court decision 🤔🙄. You can at least live with yourself ,unlike these cowering sychophants.♥️🙏👍
Wicked good, Graham,
Thanks, Fred. x
People living in fear of gender ideology!
In a capitalistic world...it can only be money.
Everyone knows the difference between a man and woman...always have and always will.
The power exerted comes from the influence of gender surgery....to keep the money flowing everyone must follow gender ideology.
With JK and say people like Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle...(though I am sure they are doing their best). At the moment they are too big to cancel!
I think with you its a blatant "see we can cancel people however talented and successful you are".
You are being made an example of to stop others.
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It is not only money, but that's a part of it for sure. Money is needed to buy allegiance, compliance and the tools to do what they want to do, by any means necessary.
Power. I always hear Nina Simone singing 'Power' from Sinnerman at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r57J0jPyZRs
thanks for this info, have tweeted the link.
Given the popularity in Ireland of Father Ted ( well apart from the church obvs ) , is it time for The Nolan Show to revisit and shine a light on these cowards and chancers ?
I’m so sorry.
Hi Graham.
Sorry, I’m not legally fluent on owning rights and releasing rights for writers.
Q/ Can you and the other creators legally challenge this situation so that you can go into production.
I, and many others would support you via a crowd fund. It’s only right and fair.
Go on, go on, go on!
P.S Keep up the most excellent trouble making. It inspires new trouble makers like me!