British broadcaster Danny Baker has been fired by the BBC for a tweet about the Royal baby which was deemed to be racist.
In response to the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's baby boy Archie, who is mixed race, Baker tweeted a photo of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee in clothes and a top hat, captioned "Royal Baby leaves hospital".
The tweet was subsequently deleted.
Baker has claimed he didn't realise the racial connotations at the time of posting the tweet, and that his intention had been to make a comparison between the Royal family and "circus animals in posh clothes".
He criticised the BBC for the manner in which he was fired, calling it "a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity".
The call to fire me from @bbc5live was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity. Took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah. Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits knees knocking. #Fuckem
— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019
Did the BBC make the right decision?
Nick Ferrari, presenter of Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on LBC, joined us to discuss the story.
