Robin Ince quits working for the BBC over his support for men in dresses and terrorists

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Shame really he’s a nice guy, a huge bibliophile, met him a few times at book signings, the last live show of his I saw he did shoehorn in “and of course trans women are real women” or some such nonsense.

guessing the infinite monkey cage is cancelled now, that was in my top five podcasts.

can’t do a popular science show and think women can have a penis though. Wonder what Brian thinks?

the video of his love resignation , presumably at the end of a monkey cage recording, is here
https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1plg02g/bbc_presenter_robert_ince_claims_he_has_been/

notably he doesn’t say how men in dresses are being treated badly. Everyone has a blind spot.

If he's been expressing support for a proscribed terrorist organisation I think the BBC would feel obliged to have a strong word, especially in the wake of the Prescott memo.

Yes. I suspect the BBC are engaged in more stringent enforcement of their impartiality rules, having been relatively lax for a long time. Given the Beeb’s ideological capture on the gender issue, I think it’s more likely that it’s Ince’s expression of pro-Palestinian views that caused the problem, though I don’t know, of course.

100%

And he is the less well known part of a Radio 4 comedy science show.

He doesn't have the capital to make things awkward for his employer.

It seems Rutherford was sensible at one point:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3472607-Adam-Rutherford-and-mixed-sex-loos?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Totally. This government is very pro Israel. Rachel Reeves described herself as a Zionist. Although the Beeb advise their staff not to use that word. What a hall of mirrors. But Ince is unlikely to have been forced out over the trans issue. Why now anyway? Unless there has been a huge course correction ....

Yes, I take your point, especially after that female police officer was battered by some of these people.

Love Gareth!

Oh dear, now I've got pictures in my head of much wafting about in and out the ladies like Delphine in Cold Comfort Farm.

Not funny and not a scientist. I think Ince should be pleased he got away with it for so long.

But you may see something nasty in the shrubbery...

I suspect there’s more to it, bet Cox can’t stand him. Remember when he accused Ricky Gervais of being a bully?
Who do I prefer, the moaning misogynist or the fella who’s given £2 million to charity this week? I bet Gervais is pissing himself reading that statement. What a self important nonentity he is.

His statement sounds a bit Greg Wallace-y.

We know when people talk nonsense because it is the same trope about "deny trans existence". I have not seen anyone deny that people with gender dysphoria exist. This issue is how you treat gender dysphoria, and lets not forget that there are many people who pretend to have gender dysphoria to get into female-only spaces.

I don't know, but that is about all they talk about in my kids schools. Everything else is very secondary to being kind.

Weird how absolutely apopleptic with anger she makes some men.

Or not.

Celebrities often just aren't very bright, though I'm sure Robin identifies as being bright.

All Gary Lineker had to do was read out the football scores, laugh at Alan Shearer's terrible jokes, and advertise crisps, and he could have been a national treasure indefinitely. But noooo, he had to join Twitter and share his opinions, and Twitter Gary turned out to be an AI for reproducing whatever the Current Thing was, until eventually it got in the way of him doing his day job.

Gary Lineker was at least a big deal. I'm not sure how many people will notice Bluesky user Robin Ince doing a flounce.

Now sort out HIGNFY. There are teenagers alive today who can't believe that it was ever funny.

I definitely got the feeling during the last season that Ince’s ‘humour’ was wearing a bit thin with Brian Cox.

Being a long-time listener to the IMC, I've had the feeling for a long time that the relationship between Brian Cox and Robin Ince had chilled considerably in recent years. Gia Milinovich has been openly GC since forever* and I so rather suspect that Brian secretly is too, which must grate upon Ince like a Scotch Bonnet in an open wound.

*a long but unspecified time

Edit: Today's post has been brought to you by the phrase "a long time"

If only Mr Ince had taken his job, ( which I gather was being amusing), as seriously as he takes himself. It's all just mind-boggling boring.
I wonder if this social media mularkey encourages people of his ilk to think that the correct sort of adoring masses are agog to read his latest tedious utterings or if the tendency was there all along and social media just lets us see what complete tits such persons always were. I suspect the latter.

Hmm. That mention of Ricky Gervais has made me pay more attention to something I saw earlier. I couldn't work out what/who Gia was referring to in her post from 20th Nov. But the first person replying to it, and laughing was - Ricky Gervais 🤔

Gia Milinovich
‪@giagia.co.uk‬

2am: I’m the kindest, most empathic, most ethical, most charitable and intelligent person around. Everyone I know and work with are disgusting and despicable bigots who should all be punched in the face then thrown off a building then stamped on.

8am: :deletedeletedelete: 👀

https://bsky.app/profile/giagia.co.uk/post/3m67sff5ixs26

And Gia doesn't post much...

That made me LOL

https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidance/personal-use-of-social-media

These are the rules.

I think Robin Ince comes under the stricter rules because he is classified as a science presenter, but where do Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova fit into this as commentators? Is their role different because they are commentating rather than presenting?

I heard rumours that Gary Lineker did it to become unsackable. He was getting to the age of being replaced and if he started to be political then the BBC sacking him would be seen as political. People said that 10 years ago Lineker knew nothing about politics and didn't care.

Splendid. Perhaps now they can find a co-host for TIMC who isn't wedded to anti-science, irrational sentimentalism about men in frocks. I'd quite like to go back to being a listener but Ince made that impossible.