DemonJim

If you don’t think the scrubbing of nearly a dozen comedy sketches from “That Mitchell and Webb Look” is a big deal, give your head a little wobble. And then imagine what the future will look like if we allow this type of Orwellian censorship to continue. Think of the comedy shows of the past that wouldn’t pass muster with the BBC’s woke warriors now, or for much longer: Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, The Office, The Thick of It - even Last of the Summer Wine would probably be deemed offensive. All of them could end up being edited to oblivion to conform with progressive ideology. Why can’t the BBC allow us to think for ourselves? They don’t have to broadcast old comedies in prime time if they think they might upset some snowflakes, but they could stick them on iPlayer and let us choose for ourselves. Instead, some humourless, lanyard-wearing jobsworths are meticulously making their way through even the most benign comedies with their fingers on the erase button, looking for wrongspeak. How dare these mirthless, condescending cretins think they are in any position to decide what everyone else is permitted to find funny? This awful age of woke surely has to come to an end, but instead it just seems to be metastasising and spreading. It is deeply authoritarian - and the more you look, the more you’ll see it. And it’s not remotely funny.