Seriously, @Channel4? To deliver a homily on courtesy, you’ve invited a man accused by two independent reports of overseeing a culture of bullying and harassment? Surely, this isn’t actually true?
@Channel4 One question for @mahonalex & @iankatz1000: have you read the Gemma White report? Or the Laura Cox report?
@Channel4 @mahonalex @iankatz1000 I appreciate Channel 4 likes to provoke. But the people this is trolling are the many precarious employees who have risked their jobs to challenge the culture of bullying at Westminster. I thought ‘progressive’ news orgs were on the side of the whistleblower, not of the powerful.
@Channel4 @mahonalex @iankatz1000 Off now. But just 1 of the messages I've been sent for @C4Press re: Bercow from an anon Commons employee:
"This decision by Channel 4 is grossly insensitive to the people whose health and careers who have been damaged either directly by him or the culture over which he presided.
"This decision by Channel 4 is grossly insensitive to the people whose health and careers who have been damaged either directly by him or the culture over which he presided.
...For him to sermonise about courtesy in politics just demonstrates his arrogance and is little more than trolling. Maybe C4 thinks it's edgy or provocative, but for victims of bullying and harassment, especially at Christmas, it is downright sickening." #Bercow
And as I head out of London, my recent piece on the lionisation of John Bercow, for @nybooks.
nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/…
nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/…
