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Will Gary Lineker get a red card from the BBC over his tweets? Probably not

Mark My Words

The royal charter expires in 2027, although negotiations are unlikely to begin in earnest until after the next general election. Lineker’s tweets on topics such as Brexit have long been an issue for the BBC, attracting criticism from rightwing newspapers and Conservative MPs.

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Meet BBC’s ‘Mr Safe’: New political editor Chris Mason’s pals joke he’s been like a 50-year-old since he was a student, he once considered being a bus driver and still subscribes to his local Yorkshire paper

Mark My Words

To this day, Mason makes sure that he gets every print copy of the local Craven Herald and Pioneer newspaper posted down to his south-east London home, where he now lives with his primary schoolteacher wife and their two sons. . As Dale remarked: ‘To this day I have no clue what his politics are, and that’s a great thing.’

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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

Fake local newspapers The Liberal Democrat Party published campaign newspapers including The North East Fife Gazette, Mid-Hampshire Gazette, and North West Leeds and Wharfedale News. Local newspaper editors and journalists have been brutal in their condemnation of the Lib Dem’s tactic, claiming it erodes trust in the earned media. (