Allow me to explain why linehan is able to get away with saying Richard Spencer tier shit about a supposedly super protected group with next to zero criticism or reproach from UK media in just a single gif....
As the nightmare flesh golem pictured has always openly bragged,
backchannels
Linehan has deep and decades spanning social and work relations with vast swaths of both British creative media and journalistic circles, and this affords him the power to seriously fuck up both the social lives and career prospects of anybody with less prestige who wants to enter the world of creative media/journalism just by putting the word out that they are "hateful bigots and harassers of wammen". With these relationships he is effectively untouchable since the editorial staff will pointedly refrain from asking their media drones to shit out articles about him since they dont want to incur the wrath of the wider sprawling clique he is a part of, and anybody lower down on the totem pole trying to publish the usual hit piece or exposure on his anti-tranny jihad will get quietly yet firmly turned down lest they fuck up their bosses social prospects and career ambitions.
This is why you get typical REEEEEEEE publications like the guardian or mirror or independent doing nothing but the barest possible "oh btw this guy was visited by police for comment on trans issues" article buried at the bottom of the website, and why the only media sources really covering this the way they would any other famous person screeching about the evil trannies coming to destroy white womanhood are noticably both non-british and part of the buzzfeed tier of newmedia who are considered to be "beneath dignity" by the pampered middle aged establishment media clique of Linehan.
This book deal is likely a symptom of this since he almost certainly knows the right people and can hire the right ghostwriters to shit out something he is probably convinced will rally youth support for his autism
Basically its the neanderthal version of the typical SJW media clique we see today, with the same basic "pledge to the dogma and you will be afforded protection and opportunities, go against us and we will fucking destroy you" structure, but with a significantly more primitive dogma at its heart* and possessing far deeper roots and far more links to actual power
* due to the fact this clique formed during the Thatcher era when all kinds of proto-SJW shit was being formed/consolidated in media and academia in reaction to the success of the political right, and thus it retains a whole fucktunne of rhetoric and ideals the later PC movement and modern SJWs discarded