UK introduces ‘Catch and Release’ for wrongthink. By Graham Linehan, writer of the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd.
A recent — chilling — incident:
Jake Munro spent eight days in the south of Ireland with his girlfriend and their 6 year-old son. On the way home, four Welsh police officers pulled him out of the ferry queue at Pembroke Dock and took his fingerprints. …
A mountainous policeman knocked on his window and suggested they take a stroll. Inside the security hut, four officers told him he was being detained for “suspected right-wing ideologies” and would be questioned. After the questioning, he was told, depending on how it went, he might be arrested.
He wasn’t questioned about a specific crime, or a specific threat, or a plot. This was a survey. Was he affiliated with any right-wing nationalist or patriot groups? Was he agitating the British public to take things into their own hands? What did he think about Muslims? What did he think about migration? What did he think about trans people, and did he consider himself an active threat to them? What did he think was the biggest problem revolving around Jews?
He was fingerprinted. Photographed. Held for four hours. At the end of it, an officer told him they had no grounds to hold him for terrorism, incitement, or anything else, and drove him back to an empty car. His phone had been cloned, which is presumably where the four hours went. He missed his ferry and paid for a hotel he hadn’t planned on, finally rejoining his girlfriend who had been ‘beside herself’, not knowing if the father of her son had been arrested. …
Its their new tactic:
This, of course, is all very familiar to me. I was arrested at Heathrow in 2025 for objecting to men in women’s private spaces. Held, questioned, and eventually paid compensation by the Met, because even they could see how it looked once it made the papers. That case matters here because the police learned the wrong lesson from it.
They didn’t stop policing opinion. They stopped arresting people for it. An arrest leaves a record, a complaint, a lawyer, a headline, maybe even a payout. A four-hour ‘detention’ at a port with no charge leaves none of that. The UK plod are still acting as thought police, but leaving no paper trail.
Ruling class oppressing us:
Look at the shape of the questionnaire: Muslims, migration, nationalist groups, incitement. It’s a checklist of the opinions the modern British left is afraid ordinary people are starting to hold, dressed up as a threat assessment. …
No charge. Just a checklist of phobias drawn up by the lanyard class, and four hours spent on a fishing expedition before they had to throw him back. That’s the UK in 2026, and I’m glad I’m out of it.
hat-tip Phil