[Kojak]

Is it a major story? The actual details of a government policy are of note. Gary Lineker's opinion of it, however, and whether the nature of his contract prohibits him from publicising his views either way, is of no consequence to me whatever. Sorry, I know everyone else seems to be terribly invested in all this, but I am struggling to care one iota about this 'major story' personally.

It shouldn't be a major story, no. Sadly the government has blown all of this way out of proportion. If they had said nothing then we wouldn't be having this discussion now. We are where we are, though - it is now a story about free speech, and the government's seeming treatment of the BBC as a state broadcaster, rather than a public broadcaster.