Cancel culture is definitely real, as we have seen with the recent cancellation of comedian Alfie Brown. Finding out that the BBC is not renewing your show for a seventh series, however, probably doesn't count.
What Gary Lineker should or should not be allowed to say matters not a jot when set against the real scandal: that our national broadcaster could not care less about fairly representing both sides to contentious debates.
Jeremy Clarkson has poured scorn on the idea that the BBC is a Tory stronghold. Apparently he even had to leave his copy of the Spectator outside the Radio 5 Live offices, as it was deemed “extremist material”.
A Telegraph poll has found that 91% of readers want to scrap the BBC licence fee. Is the Telegraph out of step with the country, or has the BBC lost its place as the national broadcaster?
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are St. Gary's struggle to call people Nazis, the truth about the January 6th 'insurrection' and a victory against 'non-crime hate incidents'.
Andrew Barr, a Jewish anti-lockdown campaigner who set up Jews For Justice, says there's nothing out of order about Lineker comparing the language of the Illegal Migrants Bill with the language used by the Nazis.
In this week's London Calling, the arguments are about Gary Lineker – it's just another distraction from what’s really going on, says James – and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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?
Law Professor David McGrogan is puzzled by Alastair Campbell’s moral grandstanding over Lineker, given his role in compiling the 'Dodgy Dossier' and his attacks on a BBC journalist when he was Tony Blair's comms chief.
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.
