Ever since Graham Linehan’s bail restrictions were relaxed and the Father Ted creator was allowed back on X, he’s been firing off a blizzard of posts with the urgency of a man who senses that, for the first time in years, he is finally being taken seriously.

One post particularly caught my eye. It stated: ‘BBC Director General Tim Davie should resign for misleading the UK public on this issue.’

Linehan has occasionally exhibited a reckless tendency to stray into infuriated hyperbole on social media, a trait that has drawn criticism in the past and legal jeopardy in the present. But the suggestion made in this post is worthy of serious consideration.

Although I work at the BBC, I’m way too far down the food chain to have had any direct dealings with Tim Davie. What I do know is that s

See Full Page