Just a reminder that getting “cancelled” isn’t a thing, but the will of the public very much is. The BBC and supporters of the anti-asylum bill have publicly demonstrated that they are in the minority, and attempting to punish Lineker has backfired on the BBC in a major way.

Difficult position for them to be in given the way their funding works, but the smart thing to do would have been not to take any action before seeing which way the wind was blowing