Hello, hello, and welcome to the show. So the BBC and its Director General Tim Davie,

a former Conservative candidate, have been forced into a humiliating climb down over

Gary Linnaker. So just a little recap, I think we all know what happened. Gary Linnaker

has made parallels between the rhetoric used by the Conservative government towards refugees

fleeing violence, persecution, they did it with rhetoric used in the 1930s in Germany,

a view which has been backed up by, for example, a Holocaust survivor who challenged the

Home Secretary, so a braver man back in January, and also our dubs, of course, who fled Nazi

occupied Europe as one of the children who fled the genocide or regime of the Nazis.

Gary Linnaker wasn't comparing the current situation to Nazi Germany in terms of policy,

but he was making parallels with rhetoric. I think we all know that. Anyway, a BBC, which

is variously tolerated, the likes of Alan Sugar, tweeting images of Jeremy Corbyn, superimposed

next to Adolf Hitler, and Andrew Neil, the flagship politics presenter for many years,

chairing a hard-right magazine, which turns out articles such as, indefense of the Fair

Act, and praising Greek neo-Nazis, not Andrew Neil, who wrote those, but articles published

by the hard-right magazine he published, he was chair of, as well as Andrew Neil using

social media for many years to promote right-wing political opinions, including actually savaging

my colleague, Karl Kadwell as a madcat lady, lovely stuff. Anyway, lots of the hypocrisy has

been pointed out. As I've said, Gary Linnaker has scored a hat trick, however big the margin

of goal that you think this is over the BBC, it's quite substantial, I would say. It's

very clear, I think, to most people that the BBC did this under pressure from the Conservative

Government. One of the things I do want to talk about myself is I think this was unfortunate

overreach on the part of the Conservatives, because they picked a fight with a household

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