Something broke in his brain a few years back over trans issues, and he alienated everyone from his fellow writers, comedy actors and fans and just kept doubling down to the point no one wants he other than the worse elements of the nasty party.

Yes, he fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole when the only people who'd give him the time of day were the Terrible People. Appearing at a Tory conference is a clear sign how far he has fallen.

It's all very sad as he's one of my favourite comedy writers of recent years.

I think covid broke quite a few brains. That Scottish historian from Coast has gone full mental jacket

His trajectory is a lot like that of JK Rowling and Dave Chappelle. Born comfortably off (but not super-wealthy), socially liberal by default without needing to think very hard at all about it, very successful because they are genuinely good at what they do, torpedoing themselves because they're unable to deal with mild criticism over some lazy-minded transphobia.

An episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 has been criticised over its transgender plot line.

This is what kicked Linehan off. Instead of listening and learning, he buried himself in self-justification and ended up palling around with the far right.