The Guardian view on Gary Lineker: the return of unabashed liberal dissent | Editorial

Ministers want the BBC to do the impossible and patrol of the opinions of every contributor to save the government from scrutiny If ministers had wanted their hardline policy on asylum seekers to be seen as a necessary response to a crisis, then they have failed spectacularly. Successive Tory governments have devoted much of their time to undermining the capacity of the country's political culture, media and civil society to oppose them. Firmly in their sights has been the BBC, the most trusted ...