Gary Lineker: how virtue-signalling rots the soul

Gary Lineker is out at the BBC after he shared an anti-Semitic Instagram post.

It is a grimly instructive example of a moralising centrist dad whose thirst for retweets led him down a deranged path.

He joins a rogues’ gallery of presenters who have left the BBC in large part because it wouldn’t allow them to propagandise rather than educate.

Such is his compulsion to appear righteous, he will parrot any old rubbish, even if it turns out to be wrong and heinous.

Virtue-signalling really does rot the soul, and the mind, says Tom Slater .

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