I discovered there was a new TV adaptation of the Father Brown stories by

G. K. Chesterton. I could see it was made by the BBC, but I’m an open-minded kind of guy, so I looked forward to watching it. After all, how much Diversity propaganda could the BBC possibly crowbar into Edwardian England, right?



The first episode is an adaptation of Hammer of God, first published in 1910. The story takes place in the “little village” of Bohun Beacon, up on a hill with a church, smithy and pub. Spoiler alert, the devout Anglican priest murders his not-so-devout brother for being a drunken womaniser and general arsehole.



In the BBC version, the Anglican priest murders his brother because he finds out his brother is in a same-sex relationship. Suddenly “homophobia” is central to the story. The gay lover is also an atheist. The original identifies the cobbler as an atheist, but he doesn’t talk about it. In the BBC adaptation, the now-gay atheist is banging on about how oppressed he is because he’s a gay atheist.



On top of that, the BBC somehow manages to crowbar in a little sub-plot about an Eastern European immigrant sending money back to her refugee camp and none of the villagers would believe what she said because she’s an immigrant.

