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Gary Lineker and free speech’s problematic new realm
Social media is neither public nor private, creating problems for leaders of organisations
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Former footballer Gary Lineker was taken off air by the BBC after he criticised Britain’s migration policy.
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Stephen Bush
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The pursuit of impartiality can make people do mad things.
A number of journalists I know abstain from voting in order to maintain it. This has always struck me as a revealingly tribal way of viewing the world: Is the only critical judgment they make about politics whether to tick a red or blue box at election time? Inevitably, if you raise children, look after elderly relatives, drive, use public transport, rent, have a mortgage or a portfolio of properties, you reach conclusions about whether your country is run well or badly.
