It’s been almost nine months since BBC journalist and presenter Naga Munchetty was accused of breaching impartiality guidelines for her words on Donald Trump’s racist online remarks, but the debate around impartiality and the role of journalism is as relevant as ever.

Back in September 2019, Munchetty faced criticism when she referred to her experience as a woman of colour in response to a tweet by Donald Trump which said that Democrat politicians Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib (commonly known as The Squad) should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”.

“Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism,” she said at the time. “Now I’m not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean.

“I can imagine lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it’s okay to skirt the lines with using language like that.”

Naga Munchetty perfectly explains why it’s not her job to be a “robot” who “blankly reads the news”