The UK Chichester Festival is hosting a revival of The Sound of Music, but those planning to attend have been warned they “may find certain themes distressing”.

The Festival said the production contains themes of: “Music; family; romance; the threat of Nazi Germany and the annexation of Austria,” as the plot follows the story of the von Trapps, who are forced to flee Austria after the Nazis invade.

Trigger warnings? Nazis? How about Henry VIII? Stalin? Malcolm Fraser? If the cultural left actually read history, it would be trigger city.

Jesus, the snowflakes have even cited Virginia Woolf’s ‘To The Lighthouse’, published in 1927, warning the book is a reflection of attitudes at the time. How could it be anything else?

Did deep into Virginia and you’ll find a bevy of anti-semitism. But who gives a shit? To the Lighthouse is a classic.

Earlier this year Aberdeen University put a trigger warning on Peter Pan. The university put JM Barrie’s book on a list of titles that may leave adults needing help or support after reading them, adding that they may contain, “Odd perspectives on gender, but no objectionable material.”

Jesus Fucking Christ. Who is to say what is objectionable and what isn’t? Get your grubby mitts off Peter Pan!

For the last two years the cultural snowflakes have been getting stuck into Picasso, who was an arsehole (remember the Jonathon Richman song?) but changed painting forever.

If you want to proscribe a dead arsehole, it would be hard to go past Saul Bellow. One of my favourite writers.

But remember, these writers are dead but their great works live on … in a very, very strange world, which is growing darker and more ignorant by the day.