Permanently suspended: How Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has become the 'most hated man' on the internet

Causing upset: Graham Linehan has “repeatedly violated” Twitter’s rules. Credit: ©Telegraph

It has been quite a descent for Graham Linehan: from co-creator of the much-loved Father Ted - much loved, because it's, well, so lovely and loveable - to a much-despised figure for his years-long campaign against trans activists.

Linehan is also the co-creator and/or writer of popular comedies The IT Crowd, Black Books, Big Train and Motherland. But his more recent position, at the centre of the trans debate's most toxic area, has been deeply unfunny. Now he has been permanently suspended from Twitter.