Algorithms, attention and creative decline

Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.

Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.

He explains:

•⁠ ⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him

•⁠ ⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight

•⁠ ⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight

•⁠ ⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture

•⁠ ⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun

•⁠ ⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out

00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me

00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From

00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn

00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons

00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called

00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation

00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals

00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone

01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit

01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him

01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth

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