The jaw-dropping thing about BBC coverage of the baseless smear against Stephen Flynn is the way the full apparatus of the broadcaster has been mobilised. It's everywhere. Even more jaw-dropping is how evidence that *exonerates* Flynn is presented as proof of guilt. The more he's cleared, the guiltier the BBC makes him look.

Labour MSP Monica Lennon, speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, claimed the 'fire & rehire' threat by Glasgow Council was "unprecedented". This was false and *should* have been challenged. Labour made the same threat in Birmingham last year & in Merthyr Tydfil in 2014. In the early 2010s multiple Labour run councils in England employed fire & rehire [then called dismissal & re-engagement]. These included Coventry and Cumbria. Other non-Labour councils to have employed fire & rehire include Devon County Council in March 2025 and Worcestershire County Council employed in 2024. BBC Scotland, in its eagerness to help Labour attack the SNP, invited a Labour politician onto a programme to comment on the Glasgow situation but failed to carry out *basic* research into Labour's own history at local authority level. What should have been an interview where a politician was challenged became a one-sided anti-SNP rant underpinned by misinformation with an interviewer who metaphorically nodded in agreement.

An academic unlikely to be interviewed on BBC Scotland.