When Donald Trump touches down in London next week, he will be greeted by the best of Britain.
Dinner with the king, a golden carriage and all the impossible pomp that the royal family make look so effortless.
A far cry from the welcome Graham Linehan received last week when the comedian stepped off a flight from Texas.
Seized by five heavily armed cops, the Irishman was banged up in a cell over a joke he had posted on X while 5,100 miles away back in Arizona.
Linehan’s thought crime? Advice on what to do if transwomen refuse to leave female changing rooms: “punch him in the balls.”
Chillingly this was not a joke cracked on British soil nor hosted on a British server, yet somehow within the scope of Britain’s Brave New World as the self-appointed global internet policeman.
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