Sheelah Stephens, Yaverland:

Re the reported fuss over the production of The Mikado in Bembridge.

The letter this week from Lewis Wheeler does highlight the fact that criticism is sometimes met with affront but that is the nature of the beast and whatever the show and whoever is involved with it must accept that it is usually just one person’s view whether it is liked or not.

Criticism (hopefully constructive) should never be taken as offensive because “there is no such thing as bad publicity”.

However, I do think there is a lot of hot wokery air around these days and it won’t be long before most things are banned.

There is nothing particularly offensive in the Savoy Operas – Gilbert liked to poke fun at the establishment and without his incredible literary genius, the wonderful music of Sullivan would never have been written.

Let’s not forget that in his day Gilbert was criticised greatly for his satirical views but did that stop him?

It may be old-hat to some but wouldn’t it be a sad day if little gems of another time were given the boot, and how far back should the start of such a ban go?

Everything was “modern” in its day.