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Toby and James begin the week talking about James’s health (not good), Toby’s failure to make it across London using public transport (which James thinks is all part of the plan to keep us locked in our homes), and the Gary Lineker scandal (which James thinks was cooked up to distract people from the Great Reset and other, equally important things taking place under our noses).
In other news we cover the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, the Free Speech Union’s recent victory on non-crime hate incidents and, in Culture Corner, Finding Michael (Disney+), Fleischman is in Trouble, Welcome to Wrexham (Disney+ in the UK, Hulu+ in the US) and QPR’s first win in 13 games.
This week’s opening sound is Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, talking to SkyNews about L’Affaire Lineker.
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On the Gary Lineker controversy, I did see the headlines in The Telegraph online, but I didn’t read the articles until the BBC caved. That was when I learned what it was he tweeted about that got him in trouble.
My conclusion was that Lineker’s co-workers would not have backed him if he had taken the government’s side on the immigration issue.
The reason the BBC is embarrassed about Lineker’s posts is because everyone there agrees with him.
The BBC was orignally set up to be a supporter of the government. Today’s BBC has one set of opinions, with no diversity of opinions, regardless of government.
It’s not my country, but privatizing the BBC seems to be solution.
James really sounds angry the last couple of episodes.
I don’t agree with him, but if I did, I still wouldn’t be all that enamored with how angry he is.
I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh about 5-6 years before he died. He was no longer a happy warrior.
Phew. I’m just glad James’ football team did not embarrass him completely as it usually does.
I noticed the same thing about Rush Limbaugh.