Talk about a newspaper taking itself too seriously. Your editorial on Dad’s Army (This sitcom once showed England at its best. Now it is nostalgia at its worst, 30 July) takes the biscuit for pomposity and gloom combined with a sad absence of a sense of humour. Oh, so you liked Dad’s Army – it was “a wonderful programme”. But now it has seemingly become a symbol of something rotten in the English character, so that “it is time to take off the comedy uniforms and walk forwards into the real world”. An editorial of such mind-boggling Mainwaringish piffle is ridiculous and unworthy of a paper that gives space to the likes of John Crace and Steve Bell. Living in my real world, I need the laughs and the gags that Dad’s Army supplies and I shall go on watching it with great pleasure.
Jack Thompson
London
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