"I was especially amused by the bit, just over half way through, where the interviewer asks him, if Lineker had said that he supported Suella Braverman’s policy, that it’s ‘brilliant’, would he have been removed from Air for that? Davie replies, “I’m not going to get into hypotheticals”."

Well if he had tweeted in support of the policy it would have attracted little to no objections. There would have been hardly anyone calling for the BBC to remove him from the air. Might be slightly different if he said something in favour of the anti vax movement or either any view at all about trans issues. If it was just an opinion what would it matter?

I don't think it is about his tweet as such. It is about how some have seized on his tweet for their own ends, to both divert attention and also attack the BBC. Lineker was aware of that possibility but chose to ignore it. I am not sure that was the wisest move.

Nearly all of us have been in situations where we have had to bite our tongues for any number of reasons. We might think twice about how we phrase something.If he had not made the reference to Germany, would his tweet have provoked the reaction that it has?

This morning I was even thinking that the government uses terms like invasion deliberately. They know it causes a reaction rather than people looking closely at their policy.