Does the triumph of Gary Lineker spell disaster for the BBC?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Two stories dominated the news agenda over the weekend, one concerning a household name and the other involving a bank which – before Sunday – few had heard of. What is the political significance of Gary Lineker's row with the BBC? And after the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, are we heading for a regional banking crisis?

Cindy Yu speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.

Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.

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0:19.6	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.
0:23.6	I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Kate Andrews.
0:26.8	Today there's the news of a new bailout which we're going to get Kate
0:30.0	you to explain very shortly but before we do that something else that we haven't actually
0:34.4	talked about on this podcast so far Katie is the Gary Linnaker Saga.
0:38.4	Now last week it did seem like a bit of a blown up story because you know this football
0:41.8	commentator tweets about Nazism or whatever it is but then everything changed over the weekend.
0:47.4	Tell us about what's happened and why it's politically very interesting.
0:50.9	I think we can argue the event that could be the most significant
0:54.2	stage regarding the Silicon Valley Bank and what the government is doing but certainly
0:58.4	the event that I think dominated the news streams most as we can and you could barely pick up a
1:03.5	paper or turn on the TV or particularly go on the BBC without reading about relates to Gary Linnaker
1:08.8	and as you say this all kicked off on Friday. When after initially the BBC suggested
1:13.6	they were not going to discipline Gary Linnaker over a tweet in which he compared the language
1:18.0	around the illegal migration bill by the government to the language in 1930s Germany
1:23.7	that they were not going to punish or investigate. After they said this I think Gary Linnaker said
1:27.7	a few more tweets for example he directly tweeted Penny Walden who had brought up Gary Linnaker
1:32.4	in the House of Commons Chamber so I think he obviously wanted to defend himself but this then
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