[leewilliams]

Her disappearance from air came shortly after a rather confrontational interview with an Israeli government spokesperson and the belief among some on Twitter was that the two were linked.

Which is a load of old tosh - if that was truly the reason LBC wouldn’t have left the video of said interview on its social media feeds (you can still watch it there now).

You can debate whether LBC’s policy of telling presenters they’ve done their last show after the event is the right one - for instance, Andrew Castle vanished from weekend breakfast a while back after a similarly confrontational interview on Gaza (this time vehemently defending Israel) - but I didn’t see any outrage about his departure.

The fact is, presenters don’t have their contracts renewed for a variety of reasons (audience figures not good enough, management want a clean slate and a different sound to the programming). Not everything is a conspiracy, or about the race of the host, or their political leanings - and the confected outrage about Sangita leaving the station (comprising hashtags, a petition and even poems) is a fine example of the brain worms that have invaded previously sensible people’s heads in recent times.