Saint Gaz now has fans in Hamas and that's a big problem for the BBC

SAINT Gaz is at it again.

- Anna van Praagh

The famed Twitter Saint and selfelected MP for Virtue Signalling has this time got into hot water for reposting a statement on X calling for Israel to be suspended from global sporting bodies, including Fifa and the International Olympic Committee, due to the conflict in Gaza. The repost, now deleted, was from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, a group long dedicated to the cancellation of Israel.

Now a Hamas-affiliated news agency has lavished praise on the "renowned English broadcaster", as once again the BBC's highest-paid presenter - who burnishes his image freelancing on X as the moral voice of the nation - has caused the corporation considerable embarrassment.

It's hard not to wonder why the broadcaster's most famous presenter is allowed to single-handedly trash its 100-year commitment to political impartiality. From the migrant crisis to Shamima Begum, from Brexit to branding the US "extraordinarily racist", there appears to be no culture war he is not comfortable wading into with his painfully predictable opinions in a flagrant breach of the spirit of the beloved BBC.