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Just catching up on the Danny Baker story. Can't say I'm a fan, but I don't think the BBC should have sacked him. It was a significant error of judgement and a dumb thing to do but it also appears to have been a genuine mistake: an official telling off would have been more appropriate. That he's now been sacked plays into the hands of the "it's political correctness gone mad nobody can say anything any more without being accused of racism" type people who I (perhaps unfairly) imagine are possibly the kind of people who like listening to Danny Baker.
I thought from the headline on this piece by Janet Street-Porter it was going to be exactly that type piece but it's actually quite thought provoking and comes to the same conclusion as @Ramsaye that the real problem was that he dared to criticise our royal overlords...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/danny-baker-tweet-racist-bbc-sacked-chimp-royal-meghan-markle-a8908141.html