The BBC is under fire over its failure to remove a racial slur shouted by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, from its broadcast of the Bafta film awards. Lucy Hough is joined by the Guardian’s assistant opinion editor Jason Okundaye

Host Alan Cumming stressed that the outbursts of profanity and slurs were involuntary and apologized for any offense the language may have caused.

At the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, Tourette's syndrome activist John Davidson experienced a tic outburst and used expletives and a racial slur.