SIR – The BBC in my opinion made an appalling error of judgment on their decision to censor the track Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead. The BBC played just a short section of the track.

Whether you were a lover of Margaret Thatcher or not, surely the role of our national broadcaster is to uphold freedom of speech, even when we might sometimes find it offensive.

BBC controller Ben Cooper justifies this move by saying: “It’s a personal attack on an individual who is yet to be buried”. I disagree. It is a song from a 1939 children’s musical, which has been embraced by people who dislike Margaret Thatcher.

Is the BBC seriously saying that if a ‘group’ takes on a track to support an agenda that they, the BBC, disagree with, then that track automatically becomes offensive? Seems like a slippery slope to censorship to me!

Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford Chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury