Are we really DOOMED to accept trigger warnings for Dad's Army on BBC Two?

 

My Dad, now aged 89, loves Dad's Army. It's been his favourite programme for nigh on 50 years. It's one of his few remaining connections to the BBC - though I lessened that further a few years ago by buying him a boxed DVD set of the complete series.

And the BBC's been putting it out for decades, even now, on Saturday nights on BBC Two, simply because people still enjoy watching it, what with it being funny and well acted and beautifully written and consummately crafted and much, much better than most of the BBC's present comedy output.  

BBC Two broadcast the classic 1971 film tonight, with all the original gang. It's not in Dad's boxed set. 

And guess how the BBC continuity announcer announced it?

She said:

Welcome to Saturday night. I'm with you live into the wee hours on BBC Two. Now, with discriminatory language that some might find offensive, times of peril bring great men to the fore...

Now, I don't think we should passively tolerate this kind of thing from the BBC. 

It is a highly conscious decision by the BBC to appease a small but very loud and absurdly influential minority of unreasonable people by placing such silly 'woke'-appeasing statements in front of classic BBC programmes that have been broadcast for decades and have offended next to no one. 

(Radio 4 Extra is full of such 'trigger warnings').

By doing so, the BBC has taken sides in a matter of passionate public controversy, and it's not an impartial decision. 

Such 'warnings' are daft and divisive, and the BBC should stop them. 

One for Tim Davie? Time, Tim, to show them the cold steel? They won't like it up 'em, but you might help to reconnect the BBC to its core public if you do.