Vice President JD Vance continues to be completely vindicated about the disintegration of free speech in Europe and the U.K.

In February he told The Daily Signal’s Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell that “there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British … but also affect American technology companies, and, by extension, American citizens.”

At the time, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer brushed these criticisms aside, saying he was “very proud” of the U.K.’s history protecting free speech and claimed “that it will last for a very, very long time.”

By very, very long time I guess he meant a few months.

On Tuesday, the well-known Irish comedian Graham Linehan, who co-created a few highly regarded sitcoms in the U.K., posted on Substack that he had been arrested when he arrived at Heathrow Airport over posts he made on X.

Linehan has drawn the ire of the Left by continually criticizing the gender identity movement. It appears that they’ve now decided to unleash the police to shut him up.

Linehan wrote on Substack that he had a feeling something strange was going on when he was boarding his flight in Arizona. He said that after showing his passport at the gate, Linehan was told that he “didn’t have a seat and had to be re-ticketed.”

Linehan chalked this off to the general misery of air travel but wrote cheekily, “In hindsight, it was clear I’d been........

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