Cancel culture: Father Ted writer Graham Linehan in unexpected career move

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Graham Linehan, the writer of some of TV's most successful comedies - including Father Ted, Black Books, and The IT Crowd, has found a new home at a comedy night for cancelled performers.

The reason Linehan has ended up here is down to his outspoken views on women's and trans rights.

He has defended single-sex spaces for women, believing they should exclude trans women as Sky's Katie Spencer explains.

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