"WATCH your gutter language you, you are not at home now!" Such was my response when lecturing in building some years ago to 16 year old trying to shock me.

I could almost guarantee his reaction - "I don't swear at home, sir."

"And you don't swear here, you revolting individual," I told him.

BBC Director General Mark Thompson's decision to screen Jerry Springer - The Opera on BBC2 on Saturday has all the hallmarks of a collection of middle-aged adolescents out to shock.

Lord Reith, who established the BBC with high standards of moral integrity, must be literally turning in his grave.

If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors prepared to participate in such shows.

The BBC, however, is a public broadcasting organisation with responsibilities, not least among those to the 80 per cent of children who we learn have televisions in their bedrooms, many modern parents, sadly, being either unable or unwilling in this day and age to exercise discipline over their children.

Happily, organised Christianity appears to be waking up - possibly, backbones were strengthened by the Birmingham Sikhs - to the orchestrated campaign of secular-humanist interests who aim to undermine our nation's Judaeo-Christian heritage.

County Councillor Tom Wareing

Jays Close

Winyates Green