No, Mary Poppins hasn’t gone ‘woke’ – but there is one big problem with the film’s new age rating

The BBFC was right to make the classic movie a PG, says Will Gore – but should we worry so much about some of the language deemed unsuitable for children?

Unlike a certain British nanny, we can’t all be practically perfect in every way (Rex)

The titular nanny of beloved Disney classic Mary Poppins sought to be clear from the outset: “I never explain anything”.

The same can’t be said for the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which last week had to explain to the usual, outraged naysayers quite why it had decided to change Poppins’ rating from U to PG.

Not that any explanation was likely to do much good in the face of a largely confected row about wokeness. Plenty of anguished “fans” were so angry that they were ready to believe that their poor children were effectively being banned from watching the film at all.