Dear BBC droning on and on about drag queens again.

When Sab Samuel became the first drag queen to read children’s stories to youngsters at UK libraries it sparked protests across the country.

Oh no, those horrible naughty people who aren’t particularly thrilled to see mockery of women made a feature of libraries.

Sab, who is better known for their stage name Aida H Dee, is used to being challenged. Growing up, they were too scared to go to school. Sab said bullies attacked them while teachers said they “could not do anything to help”.

Everything changed for Sab, they said, when they performed in drag as an evil villainess in their Bath school play at the age of 13. They stood on stage and decided to be unabashedly themselves.

Unabashedly evil eh?

At the end, they were rewarded with a standing ovation and some of their previous enemies praised their courage. This spurred them on to launch the UK’s first drag queen story time which took place in Bristol in 2017.

Hero! Making contempt for women official!

Now Sab tours the country performing at theatres and libraries. “It’s not just for LGBT+ kids, it’s for everyone. Everyone should feel proud of who they are,” they said.

But he’s not proud of who he is, he’s proud of playacting being someone else. Acting is an art and it’s fine to be proud of it, but it’s silly to conflate it with who-they-are.

There are many more paragraphs of this glurge. I’ve learned to hate the BBC.