Rap group Kneecap were "placed in a higher category of risk" than Bob Vylan by the BBC, prior to its coverage of the Glastonbury festival, according to a letter from the corporation's director general Tim Davie to a committee of MPs. The BBC has previously said it should have cut away from a live broadcast of Bob Vylan's performance at Glastonbury.

While performing at Glastonbury last month, the London punk-rap duo led the crowd in a chant of “death, death, death to the IDF.” Since then, the group has been pilloried in the UK press, and they’ve been subjected to a number of career setbacks.