Pressure is being put on Glastonbury to drop the band, after a band member was charged with a terrorism offence

The BBC struggled through its latest efforts to deal with Irish hip hop group Kneecap today, choosing not to stream the group’s massively attended set at the Glastonbury Festival this weekend under worries that the band would offer up incendiary messages condemning both the British government and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

Kneecap’s performance at Glastonbury Festival will not be live-streamed but is likely to be made available on-demand, the BBC has said.A number of politicians have called for the Irish rap trio to be removed from the line-up and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said their performance would not be “appropriate” after one of the members was charged with a terror offence.