We’ve done it. We’ve solved racism. And who’d have thought that all it would take was a few judicious edits to a much-loved British sitcom?
This is the news that UKTV, a BBC-owned streaming service, has removed and is reviewing an episode of Fawlty Towers because it contains racial slurs. ‘We regularly review older content to ensure it meets audience expectations and are particularly aware of the impact of outdated language’, UKTV said in a statement last night.
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Tom Slater is deputy editor of spiked
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