Tag: Defund the BBC

• I Swear

  

  ‘Furious outcry over racial slur at the BAFTAs’. Sounds grim, but as it unravelled it got grimmer, albeit for different reasons. You couldn’t really make it up, and I swear that somewhere out in the ether, a coterie of clowns are ensconced in a circus think-tank huddle, pulling out all the stops to push the…

  Max Frances

  Feb 24, 2026

  Films, Society

  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, BAFTA, BBC, Defund the BBC, Disability, Film, I Swear, John Davidson, Mandelson, Scum Media, Scumedia, Tourette’s, Trump

• Stepping Back

  

  So, Gary Lineker is on his way out of the BBC. It was indeed a stretch to see how somebody so clear about the Tories’ language of the 1930s was oblivious to the rat symbolism used by the Nazis during the same era. He apparently never saw the offending emoji in the post he shared,…

  Max Frances

  May 19, 2025

  Sport, Television

  1930s, BBC, Defund the BBC, Football, Israel Gaza, ITV, Lineker, Match of the Day, Nazis, World Cup