Nish Kumar

The comment was shouted whilst actors Michael B. Jordan and Del Rolindo were on stage.

And it was shouted by John Davidson, MBE, who suffers from Tourette's syndrome.

He was attending the awards ceremony after inspiring the film, I Swear, a film about his life growing up with the condition.

Speaking about the incident, Davidson has said that he was deeply mortified explaining his tics were involuntary and did not carry any meaning.

This has obviously been a story that's...

been picked over and dissected.

I imagine most of you listening now will have seen the clip or heard a lot of conversation about it.

I mean, the thing that I think it is important to sort of focus people's frustration on is the institutional responsibility around this particular story.

On the night Del Rolindo said that no one at BAFTA had spoken to him afterwards, which is obviously a huge, huge fuck up on the part of BAFTA.

And then you also have to examine the BBC's role in this.

There is a two hour time delay on the BAFTAs.

There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever, especially given that we've read several articles from people who were in the room at the time that knew that this has happened.

There is absolutely no reason

that that could not have been edited out of the broadcast.

And there is certainly no reason that it could have been edited out of the broadcast if the BBC was able to identify the phrase free Palestine and remove it from the broadcast.

There is a mistake here that is being made by a lot of us who've been culturally dissecting this, and that is the anger needs to be aimed at institutional failures here.

No, look, I think there's two issues here that are really important to highlight.

And the first one is that this does not need to be an oppositional conversation about the rights of a person with Tourette's versus the rights of black people.

We often when we get involved in the kind of oppositional back and forth over human rights, we make a mistake.

if for no other reason other than there are black people with Tourette's that I imagine have found the last sort of 48 hours very profoundly upsetting, right?