For an ideology which proudly pronounces its ethos of respect, compassion and inclusion, hyperliberalism can be decidedly judgmental and supercilious when it comes to appraising the past – and even that of living memory.

This irony can be witnessed in the attitude assumed by hyperliberalism’s advocates and adherents towards television comedies which first aired at the turn of the millennium. Only last month, a video showing the astonished and appalled reactions by members of Generation Z to Little Britain sketches went viral. That Noughties series, with its depiction of a man feigning disability, blackface and brownface characters, and overly camp and narcissistic Welshman, conspicuously jars with the safe and tepid comedy of today. The recent return of Ali G prompted a similar and predictable response, with a younger generation – and those of a certain older demographic caught in a state of leftist arrested development, and who still don’t get the joke – taking grievous offensive at the spectacle of this white, Jewish, half-Israeli actor pretending to be a dense black man.

Eleven sketches have been removed, including a blackface war re-enactment, a contestant in a burqa and a ‘tribe’ who inhabit a garden centre

Eleven sketches have been removed, including a blackface war re-enactment, a contestant in a burqa and........

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