Trigger warnings: there really is no need for them...

I'VE noticed in recent years the bizarre issue of trigger warnings on the likes of films, books, TV shows and plays, all done with the idea of preventing people from being upset or offended.

- Angus Long

Here are a few of the more ludicrous: The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party now comes with a trigger warning in case audience members find themselves “uncomfortable” during the Royal Ballet and Zoonation theatre show. A university has slapped Shakespeare’s works with trigger warnings, warning nervous Gen Z students to watch out for everything from ‘dirt’ to ‘puppetry’. An episode of the BBC show Dr Who was given a trigger warning about the show being discriminatory about aliens.

So, as we enter December and the run-up to Christmas we get all the same woke anti-offence nonsense with the likes of many public sector organisations renaming Christmas ‘Winterval, wishing staff ‘Season's Greetings’ and renaming Christmas trees ‘holiday trees’ Like all previous acts attempting to airbrush Christianity, this is being rolled out to apparently avoid offending non-Christians.

However, while the majority of Christmas cards in shops have no Christian religious themes for fear of offending non-Christians, many stores are seemingly happy to stock cards that ridicule the Christian message with the likes of cards saying “Mary just needs to admit she slept with someone else”

This is getting out of hand now to the point of lunacy. Indeed, many children now think Christmas is about celebrating the arrival of Santa Claus rather than the birth of Jesus.