Gary Lineker today refused to apologise and used his reinstatement by the BBC to hammer home his views on migrants, saying those crossing the channel were fleeing persecution. What, in France?
The Lineker incident will accelerate the demise of the BBC license fee, highlighting the fact that a broadcaster cannot hope to represent "all of us" in such a polarised era, argues Patrick O’Flynn.
Whether or not you believe Gary Lineker should be sacked for apparently breaching BBC guidelines, the notion that he is a freedom fighter against a Far Right government is an absurd metro liberal fantasy.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are whether Matt Hancock or Simon Case is more loathsome, whether Chris Rock is funnier than Dave Chapelle and the right way to eradicate trans ideology.
A new BBC Panorama episode from Marianna Spring blames Elon Musk for a tripling in abusive messages on Twitter. But there are clearly other reasons that might explain the data besides the influence of Mr Musk.
In reporting about the Ofcom ruling against Mark Steyn, the Telegraph has managed to misrepresent the reason for the breach, and in doing so wrongly imply that questioning Covid vaccines is against Ofcom rules.
The free speech crisis in universities and wider society is very real, and it's not just those on the 'Right' being caught in its censorious snares, senior academics have been told.
Woke censors at Puffin have ruined the much-loved works of Roald Dahl, making hundreds of changes that replace his vivid, darkly funny writing with bland platitudes and outright propaganda.
Karen Sunderland was sacked after her boss received a tip-off about some tweets she'd sent in 2017 expressing her conservative beliefs. Please donate to her fundraiser so she can fight back in the Employment Tribunal.
Nicola Sturgeon was one of the West's most authoritarian leaders, an enemy of free speech and someone who had no qualms about turning her country into a temporary dictatorship during the pandemic. Thank God she's going.
