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N. P. Ryan<p>I never expected to ever hear @GaryLineker get a shoutout at a punk gig!<br>🧷<br>🧷<br>🧷<br>🧷<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/punx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punx</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/hardcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardcore</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Chelsea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chelsea</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TheChelseaInn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheChelseaInn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GaryLineker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GaryLineker</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/livemusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livemusic</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/RuPaul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuPaul</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/rupaulsdragrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rupaulsdragrace</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Bristol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bristol</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/publictransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publictransport</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/escooters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>escooters</span></a> @NFBUK <br><a href="http://npryan.com/2023/03/14/in-with-the-inn-crowd/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">npryan.com/2023/03/14/in-with-</span><span class="invisible">the-inn-crowd/</span></a></p>
Andy Leslie 💙<p>My blog today, entitled "WTF?" is about <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LinekerGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinekerGate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2s3af5s7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/2s3af5s7</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Pledge for Europe (PfE)<p>For the sake of impartial journalism Laura Kuenssberg must resign now. <br>---<br>RT @deirdreheenan<br>So I see in the interests of impartiality <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BBCLauraK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCLauraK</span></a> ends with two anti Gary Lineker messages.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BBCLauraK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCLauraK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> <br><a href="https://twitter.com/deirdreheenan/status/1634861424848650243" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/deirdreheenan/stat</span><span class="invisible">us/1634861424848650243</span></a></p>
Heskie<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> <br />This is what it is and was always about:<br />Philip Davies, MP:<br />“This pathetic capitulation by the BBC is the start of the end for the licence fee. His epitaph will read ‘Gary <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lineker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lineker</span></a> – the man who destroyed the BBC licence fee’. This is a watershed moment.”<br />It must be difficult every morning to be of such right wing disposition to have to decide between <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>migrant</span></a> bashing and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BBC</span></a> bashing. But happy days - here they are rolled into one.</p>
Will Black 🍓🍄<p>I wrote this tongue-in-cheek piece ready for Boris Johnson being grilled by a parliamentary committee (from 20th March) </p><p>But to fair, he seems no more corrupt than many others at the moment. <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> opened a can of worms that can't be closed</p><p><a href="https://willblack-53220.medium.com/in-defence-of-boris-johnson-by-a-non-tory-f1db2eb66347" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">willblack-53220.medium.com/in-</span><span class="invisible">defence-of-boris-johnson-by-a-non-tory-f1db2eb66347</span></a></p>
BobbingAlong<p>Looking forward to a new W1A episode featuring the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linekergate</span></a> storyline.</p>
Sverre Gaarder<p>– Kun ekstreme diktaturer har gjort noe lignende. Hvis det innføres så blir Storbritannia det første siviliserte, demokratiske land som bryter ut av Flyktningkonvensjonen, slår asyladvokat Arild Humlen fast. <br><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/LinekerApology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinekerApology</span></a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/linekerisright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linekerisright</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/4orXQe/asylekspert-om-lineker-kaoset-vi-kan-ikke-loepe-fra-historien" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/4orXQ</span><span class="invisible">e/asylekspert-om-lineker-kaoset-vi-kan-ikke-loepe-fra-historien</span></a></p>
Dennis Nigbur<p><a href="https://thisisablogabouteverything.wordpress.com/2023/03/12/lineker-and-the-nazis/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thisisablogabouteverything.wor</span><span class="invisible">dpress.com/2023/03/12/lineker-and-the-nazis/</span></a></p><p>In this blog post, I connect <a href="https://toot.community/tags/linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linekergate</span></a> to lessons learnt from history via the German school system. Going on about the Nazis for no good reason is wrong. But that's not what Lineker did.</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>This may indicate the narrowness of my attention to the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a>, but have just spotted my first incidence of:</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> </p><p>[as its already a # I know I'm late to the scene - sighs]</p>
Kevy B<p>Considering the Jewish history of needing to seek asylum from evil and persecution, this is astounding from Stephen Pollard, writing in Jewish Chronicle, no doubt. What a right-wing toad. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linekergate</span></a></p>
David Kirlew-Morris<p>The Gary Lineker story is terrible.</p><p>It's a case of clear BBC bias. The Tory controlled BBC want to eliminate any non-Tory views - especially from the most prominent people.</p><p>His comments were made on a personal Twitter account and not on BBC programming. So, there's no impartiality problems.</p><p>Also, look at this response to a complaint about Chris Packham. Double standards at work here.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/garylineker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>garylineker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/matchoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matchoftheday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/impartiality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impartiality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LinekerRow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinekerRow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linekergate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Lineker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lineker</span></a></p>
Heskie<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@davidstirrup" class="u-url mention">@<span>davidstirrup</span></a></span> <br />In common with much else of importance, this has been buried under <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linekergate</span></a></p>
Nick<p>Lads, I’ve just worked out how to make a fortune from the centrist pound on this Lineker business. We’re talking t-shirts, posters, tote bags, iPhone cases, tea towels, the *lot*. It’s the new Barnard Castle, I’m telling you.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MOTDboycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MOTDboycott</span></a></p>
Gavin Lenaghan<p>Don't really have much to say on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linekergate</span></a> or whatever we're supposed to be calling it, except that I never massively understood the whole culture of "let's get outraged about what views a BBC presenter expresses in their own time, via their own channels (eg. a personal Twitter account)" </p><p>So much selective outrage on that kind of thing as well - it suddenly becomes a non-issue if you agree with said presenter's views - which is obviously even less surprising</p>
Heskie<p>An interesting look at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linekergate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linekergate</span></a><br />Impartiality and public-service media<br />ROBIN WILSON 11th March 2023<br />The media storm in Britain around a television personality speaks volumes about why the United Kingdom has become a dysfunctional state.<br /><a href="https://www.socialeurope.eu/impartiality-and-public-service-media" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">socialeurope.eu/impartiality-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-public-service-media</span></a></p>