Apparently, viewers of This Morning have been venting their anger at poor old Bob for neglecting to reference Sam Smith with the "correct" pronouns of "they/them" and continued to blithely call him (yes, him &#128512 Sam or " he" when recalling how they once worked on a charity song together. WTF!! To borrow Mick's phrase " makes my piss boil"!

All this exaggerated sense of self entitlement around self identification does my head in. Sam Smith even talks of himself as being a "fisherthem" rather than a "fisherman" when talking about his hobby! I genuinely don't care what Sam Smith's ***uality is or isn't but he has a dick so he is a "he" not a "them/they" which is a plural pronoun. His ***ual attention orientation has nothing to do with it.

As normal, a shouty minority are trying to enforce their views on the majority and claim that anyone refusing to agree with them is obviously bigoted and being discriminatory.

Tbh, I always thought that the viewing demographics for "This Morning " would be mostly middle aged or retired as most other people would be at work? Not the age group I generally associate wokeness with. Maybe it's because most wokies don't work ?

As for the recent furore over rewriting Dahl, I agree with JK Rowling who said something along the lines that the censorship or banning of books was the last resort of those without the intellect to argue or debate. She is not alone in this view and people like Barrack Obama, Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson have all made similar points on "being offended" regarding the dangers of "cancel culture" on free speech. You do not fight hate or bigotry with censorship, you fight it with discussion.

Makes me despair. Mind you, could simply be that I am just getting old of course and as a (obviously "privileged") white 60 plus hetero***ual male I am not only out of touch but clearly have "unconscious biases" against race/LGBTQ and anything else going...