{"id":1033472,"date":"2023-03-21T13:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=9c635959bb0122340a3fdfc1034dd53f"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:41:27","slug":"bbc-disciplined-commentator-who-spoke-out-against-uks-anti-immigrant-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/21\/bbc-disciplined-commentator-who-spoke-out-against-uks-anti-immigrant-law\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Disciplined Commentator Who Spoke Out Against UK\u2019s Anti-Immigrant Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week, Britain has been consumed by drama surrounding ex-soccer superstar Gary Lineker&rsquo;s temporary removal from his role as a BBC commentator after he took to twitter to attack the government&rsquo;s new asylum policy. In early March, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&rsquo;s conservative government proposed a new law that would make it impossible for people to claim asylum if they entered the country...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/bbc-disciplined-commentator-who-spoke-out-against-uks-anti-immigrant-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/bbc-disciplined-commentator-who-spoke-out-against-uks-anti-immigrant-law\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC\u2019s current Conservative-appointed leadership has displayed a shameful willingness to toe the government line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,2548,58350,4711,238,6964,196,1395,376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033473,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033472\/revisions\/1033473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}