Sharp thinking

LBC has parted company with weekend phone-in host Maajid Namaz, who's been tweeting support for anti-vaxxers. 

BBC Chairman Richard Sharp maybe looking askance. Nawaz founded Quilliam, billed as the “world’s first counter-extremism organisation”, Sharp donated £10,000 to the Quilliam Foundation in 2017 and a further £25,000 in 2019. 

In January this year, Mr Sharp told MPs  "I heard Maajid Nawaz on LBC and I was impressed at his personal efforts to combat radicalism and extremism, and I felt that it was appropriate to support his efforts in trying to bring the community as a whole together."