Thoughts on Solo...very disappointed the made Lando a

[Burney]

Battyboy.

Shameful. Why couldn’t they make Chewbacca gay. No one likes him.

Fkin billy dee Williams...can’t believe it

Everything now has to be tainted with a bit of identity politics, t. It's why you end up with Wilkie Collins adaptations in which Victorian London is apparently teeming with South Asians and West Indians, while sexual ambiguity or gender fluidity has to be shoehorned into everything from Dr Who to Star Wars.

My wife and I play a little game. Whenever we watch a BBC TV programme set in the past, we see who'll be the first to spot a historically-incongruous ethnic character. It usually takes less than five minutes these days.