Gary Lineker

Oliver Sears: Is it possible to invoke the Holocaust without instantly losing the argument?

The liberal sprinkling of the word ‘Nazi’ in everyday use perhaps signals that modern society accepts nazism as the nadir of human behaviour

Gary Lineker wins appeal over multimillion-pound tax bill

Judge rules that the presenter worked for the BBC and the BT Sport as a freelancer and not an employee

‘I’ve been silenced … literally’: Gary Lineker absent for BBC after losing his voice

Alex Scott will now host Sunday afternoon’s quarter-final between Brighton and Grimsby Town

Justine McCarthy: Can’t live with Twitter? Then live without it

Gary Lineker’s spat with the BBC highlights the insidious relationship between the platform and news organisations

RTÉ is not immune to the BBC’s Lineker problem

All journalists whose work is published on public service broadcasting are required to take account of the need to be seen to be impartial

Will Lineker vs The BBC go to extra time?

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Fintan O’Toole: Gary Lineker debacle is all part of the continuing saga of Britain eating itself

You can cancel people who make stupid comments on social media. Or you can take a measured approach

Former BBC director-general: Reinstatement is ‘like a 5-0 win’ for Gary Lineker

‘As I understand it, this was the very solution that was offered to the BBC on Friday, and they turned it down’

BBC management ‘weakened’ as deal struck to put Gary Lineker back on air

Broadcaster to review social media guidance for journalists and presenters as Match of the Day presenter returns

Lineker affair exposes BBC’s curious relationship with Conservative power

The frenzy over the presenters tweets is the culmination of years of Conservative Party pressure on the BBC

BBC made a bad tackle on Gary Lineker and should just admit it

Laura Slattery: In its effort not to take sides, the institution wound up taking the side of the British government and sparking a mutiny

Gary Lineker is back, so we’ll get more than 20 minutes of Match of the Day

Hugo Keenan’s ‘implacable excellence’; Clive Woodward’s bizarre comments; Rhasidat Adeleke’s star performance

Ken Early: Gary Lineker affair shows impartiality is yesterday’s news

Saga underlines how Britain’s fake populist government has once again failed to read the (dressing) room

Gary Lineker suspension: Who is Tim Davie, BBC director general and ex-Conservative party official?

The former Pepsi marketeer said in his first days that he intended to restore ‘trust and confidence’ in the BBC

BBC say talks with Gary Lineker ‘moving in the right direction’, as corporation and Tories feel heat

Match of the Day only aired for 20 minutes on Saturday night rather than its scheduled 80 minutes

Gary Lineker is politically juvenile, but the BBC is utterly naive

By suspending the sports commentator under the guise of impartiality, the BBC has shown up its own inadequacies

Match of the Day review: After a day of thunderous controversy, a deafening silence swallows BBC One

Television: With no Gary Lineker, pundits or commentators, the embattled broadcaster replaces its Premier League show with an eerie highlights package

Lineker-BBC row ‘a matter for them’, says Rishi Sunak

British PM defends his proposals to permanently ban asylum seekers who arrive in UK on unauthorised small boats

Gary Lineker: BBC director-general says he will not resign over fallout from Match of the Day suspension

Sunak defends his proposals to permanently ban asylum seekers who arrive in UK on unauthorised small boats

Jurgen Klopp bemused by BBC’s decision to stand down Gary Lineker

‘If I understand it right, it is a message, an opinion about human rights and that should be possible to say’

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