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The series is no longer repeated on television in the UK.[2]Some critics viewed the casting of the Anglo-Indian actor Michael Bates as the Indian bearer Rangi Ram as an example of blackface,[3][4] "All Michael Bates [...] wore was a light tan", protested Jimmy Perry in a 2013 interview with the journalist Neil Clark, an admirer of the series.[5] In Clark's opinion, the series "delightfully lampooned the attitudes of the British in India", but is "wrongly attacked by the PC brigade for being racist and homophobic".[6] Such a perception, however, is believed to be at least partly responsible for the programme not being repeated on British television in later years,[4] along with, according to Darren Lee of the British Film Institute's Screenonline website, a belief that it contains "national stereotyping and occasionally patronising humour".[7] According to Mark Duguid, writing for the same website, it suffers "from its narrow stereotypes of its handful of Indian supporting characters as alternately servile, foolish, lazy or devious".[8] Its flaws have not stopped it appearing in several "best of" lists.[7]

The show's creators had been aware of the issues around the casting of a seemingly white actor to play one of the Indian characters, but relented owing to the lack of suitable Indian actors at the time.[4] Jimmy Perry defended the casting as Bates (who was Anglo-Indian) "spoke fluent Urdu, and was a captain in the Gurkhas".[5]

No offence taken at all Rich

I've stopped reading it - I read it as an alternative view to my Telegraph subscription, and it is free.

However, it is a loony left propaganda pamphlet.

It is particularly obsessed with migration and asylum. As far as I can see, they would simply allow as many millions who could get here to simply arrive and be looked after.

Soft as a brush and completely irresponsible.

I started reading it when the Tele stuck their paywall on but I think I'll pay up now to not put up with a lot of nonsense the G seems to print, it's been an interesting but short lived diversion.

I'm not a massive fan of the Guardian, but I wouldn't say it's loony left, there are plenty of comments in its discussion pages that indicate that many people consider it too middle ground.

But I would argue that the obsession with asylum seekers is more of a product of the right-wing press, to read them you'd think we were drowning under a relentless unstoppable tide of illegal immigrants.

On an average day in the UK:

- 3,700 people are reduced to seeking help from a food bank
- 5,400 suffer domestic violence
- 4,750 people sleep rough on the streets
and
- 4 migrants come across the channel seeking asylum

But somehow it's asylum seekers that are the crisis?

As far as I can see it's the same old story - divert attention from internal problems by identifying an external minority group to blame.

Tim,
agreed. Great sound bites & a good diversion.
John

Like all newspapers it has good bits and bad bits. A couple of the columnists, such as Polly Toynbee and Owen Jones can usually be guaranteed to have me shouting, and throwing things at the computer, but many of them are excellent; Andrew Rawnsley, Matthew d'Ancona, Rafael Behr, Simon Jenkins, Fintan O'Toole, Jay Rayner.....

Very true. The same with the Times: I really rate Daniel Finkelstein, Hugo Rifkind, and Clare Foges whereas I find Melanie Philips and Rod Liddle infuriating.