[ViridianFan]

It feels obvious to me why they are running with this is and making such a big deal about it is because this runs deeper than the Gary Lineker tweet.

This is about the independence of the BBC. Look at recent weeks where we’ve had the stuff about the loan and Richard Sharp.We had Emily Mattlis alleging government interference. I’m not going to get into the argument if he is right or wrong but I do wonder if anything would have happened if he tweeted something in favour of a government policy.

They’d never be able to run a story about possible interference whereas at the moment they can say well everyone else is covering this so we need to. Whilst it may not be directly interesting to world viewers it’s actually something which impacts them. You don’t also know if this is point proving that the new merged channel won’t work.