Lineker and the BBC: everyone kind of sucks here

Politically motivated cancellation vs. dumbass Nazi analogies. Choose your fighter.

The latest cancel-culture/free-speech controversy in Britain involves an outspoken soc- sorry, football commentator suspended by the BBC for his controversial tweets, and I think I'm just one "blimey" away from writing the most British sentence ever.

As we've been reporting, Gary Lineker was asked to step back from presenting the BBC's Match of the Day on Saturday after becoming embroiled in a row over impartiality.

In a statement on Friday, the BBC said it considered Lineker's use of social media to be "a breach of our guidelines".

A spokesperson added: "The BBC has decided that he will step back from presenting Match Of The Day until we've got an agreed and clear position on his use of social media."

But what was the tweet that led to his removal?

Lineker became embroiled in the impartiality row after comparing language used to launch a new government asylum policy to 1930s Germany.

He was criticising the Illegal Migration Bill, which would make it unlawful for migrants who arrive in the …